DFS behavior on Server 2008 R2 / Windows backups / missing data

Hello,
created a namespace, added a folder, configured full mesh replication between 4 members, everything seemed to work fine (data started replicating to all other members when added to any of them, etc.). Left them for initial replication over our slow link.
Tonight Windows backup process ran and backed up all the data. DFS process stopped while the backup was running (that's what event viewer shows). After it started again, all the data that wasn't already replicated to other member servers is missing from
the "primary" one...
Now whenever i restore that missing data to the original folder, dfs starts syncing and removes it again.. The only way to restart the whole thing is to disable replication to all folders, wipe them, wait for such changes to apply, etc.
The server i'm adding data to is Server 2008 R2, other DFS members are Server 2012 R2.
Why is this happening and how do i fix it?...
Thanks!

Hi,
From the behavior, the initial replication is affected before finishing and now it consider the "not-copied data" is "pre-existing data" so it removed them from DFSR folder for avoiding confliction.
In current situation, you should pre-seeding the replication data instead of waiting DFSR for finishing it. Enable DFSR later once your pre-seeding job finished.
To do a pre-seeding, you can use Robocopy to copy files/folders with NTFS permissions to your other 3 servers.
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