Users that delete files... where they go?

[santyabreu]

Hello Guys!

 

I've seen in one of the Linus videos taking about the reconstuction of theis servers a functionality that I really need.

 

What happens when a user deletes by mistake a network share file? how to handle where it goes?

Something in another repository to auto-move them when they are deleted, acting as recycled bin?

I'm sourrounding many ideas about how can I implement this.

 

Could you gimme a little bit of light?

 

Thanks so much!

[Electronics Wizardy]

Backups? Thats whats there for. 

 

What os are you using? What backup solution? 

[emosun]

you'd have to find the drive that the file was stored on and run data recovery on that drive

[santyabreu]

Yep, but I'm not talking about backup solution, we do backups every day

 

We are using Windows 2012 rt

 

This is what Im talking about (from minute 8:30)  

He is moving deleted files to another repository automatically so can recover it instantly, with no need to use backup recovery (acting link recycled bin)

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, santyabreu said:

Yep, but I'm not talking about backup solution, we do backups every day

 

We are using Windows 2012 rt

 

This is what Im talking about (from minute 8:30)  

 

The backup solution can do this. What are you using for backups? 

 

Linus there is using a syncing solution, there are many that do that, but really, you want to do this with the backup solution thats what its for.

 

Also look into snapshots in windows, they can do this to have old versions of files like every 30 minutes.

[santyabreu]

We are using windows native backup

[santyabreu]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

The backup solution can do this. What are you using for backups? 

 

Linux there is using a syncing solution, there are many that do that, but really, you want to do this with the backup solution thats what its for.

You mean DFS replication?

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, santyabreu said:

We are using windows native backup

that should do what you need it to do easily, you can easily pull up files that have gotten deleted.

 

Also look into running shadow copies. Makes it easy to users to get the old files aswell.

 

1 minute ago, santyabreu said:

You mean DFS replication?

 

Nope, seprate thing, but can work together for uptime. DFS just syncs servers, doesn't do anything about deleted files

[santyabreu]

Let me make some tests...

[Hazizi]

Hi santyabreu,

 

have you tested it?i need the same solution as LinusTechTips have in my organization.

 

what exactly software he using

[Mikensan]

Most people running on a Windows environment would simply use Previous Versions or Windows Shadow Volume Copy to give users a way to restore their own files without having to contact IT.

 

Normally you'd tell users they can recover their own stuff from 1 week ago or whatever your storage allows. After that then you pull from your normal backups. Eitherway you should be backing up daily at minimum (for others that are reading).