Re: Server 2008 (pseudo) recycle bin for network drives

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Christian Schratter <ChristianSchratter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello.

As it looks like i forgot to add a meaningful subject yesterday, and
since i can't find a button to edit the original post, i'd like to
appologize first to those who read this boards frequently and get
confused by such a subject without any information.

Second: since you mentioned the VSS feature as the solution for my
issue, i once again read up some details of VSS - and honestly, even
though it's a really cool feature for most situations, it just looks a
bit too sophisticated for the environment i'm working with right now.
As far as i understood it, VSS acts pretty much like a versioning system,
which makes scheduled snapshots. This way only visible changes at point
of time "B" compared to the earlier point of time "A" get
tracked/versioned, while the workflow between "A" and "B" itself is
untracked. And here lies my issue: since i'm faced with an environment
where version-issues for files can be excluded (because the users of
the network use different files), a continuous workflow oriented method
for data-recovery (like a recycle bin) seems more approriate, secure
and convenient to use, no?

I have heard of 3rd party tools which claim to supply a similiar
functionality, but actually i considered this topic to be basic enough
to be covered as a base function of the operating system.


Which third party programs do you know of? I would be interested to know of
any that could put network deletes into the Recycle Bin, when the user has
the same local credentials as the remote one.

I used to use Sysinternals Fundelete ages ago. It's not been updated for a
long time, and it looks like it has been abandoned. It caught anything
deleted from the command line, but I cannot remember if it did that with
network deletes. I stopped using it after I found a couple of issues that I
did not like about it.

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