Re: Redirected my docs and off line files issue
- From: "tester" <tester@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 16:09:32 -0700
well I have that installed, according to the control panel add/remove
software appplet. and I tried to install the MSI as you pointed to and it
tried to uninstall, meaning it is already there. Yet when I right click a
share there is NO previous versions option. If I go to the sbs server and
look at the individual drives, they have shadow copies on and there are
numerous entries in there. they have x number of MB used as well. SO it
LOOKS like things are working, yet I don't have the previous versions tab
like you say I should. Not on my right click menu, could it be elsewhere?
"Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]" <gwdibble@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23SxSc8mUFHA.4056@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> For shadow copy, on the server, r-click the drive in My Computer to see
> the properties and configuration. Then on the workstation, the shadow
> copy client is installed by default when you run \connectcomputer.
> Assuming shadow copy is enabled on the server and has run at least once,
> r-click a network share in windows explorer (on your desktop PC). You'll
> see a Previous Version tab, which is how you access the shadow copies. If
> you don't have a previous version tab, you can install the client
> manually - it's on the server in
> <sbs>\c:\WINNT\system32\clients\twclient\x86 and it's called twcli32.msi.
> You might want to copy this to a location that's more easily accessed from
> a workstation. Once you install the client, you'll be able to access the
> shadow copies from windows explorer on the desktop PC.
>
>
> "tester" <tester@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:117n4v226hhd6e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> thanks! That answers some of it.
>>
>> I can't figure out why they disappeared. I did set up volume shadow copy
>> but am not sure exactly how it works from a recovery standpoint. I need
>> to read up some more on it. Would you have any good links on how it is
>> implemented practily speaking?
>>
>> I do see that VSC's are being made but I don't know if they contain
>> enough stuff.
>>
>> I've started to use Retrospect (by Dantz) for backup, and it seems to be
>> doing its job. I want to do weekly full backups to it, and in the mean
>> time I use robocopy to copy things to hidden shares nightly, and
>> incremental local backups to a special partition.
>>
>> Thanks for the KB article, it makes a lot of sense.
>>
>> "Dave Nickason [SBS MVP]" <gwdibble@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>> message news:%23Z37H4bUFHA.3944@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Something's strange here. Offline Files is a one-way sync - the files
>>> stored on the server are made available on the workstation if the server
>>> or network is offline. So let's say you have a hundred docs in a My
>>> Documents folder redirected to the server. Your workstation makes an
>>> offline copy of those files when you sync. Then you go to another
>>> workstation - that one makes an offline copy of the same hundred docs,
>>> not deleting anything, simply making the server-side docs available in
>>> the workstation's offline file cache. It would not sync the empty local
>>> directory back to the server, which is what would have to happen for the
>>> files to be deleted. So I would be researching the possibility that
>>> something besides synchronization caused the loss of those files.
>>>
>>> As for everyone's files synching when one user syncs, see this KB:
>>> "Files that you add to the Offline Files folder on a Windows XP-based
>>> computer are synchronized when another person uses the computer'
>>> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;811660
>>>
>>> You might want to look into Volume Shadow Copy as an additional backup
>>> to your redirected files - aside from being a quicker way to recover
>>> files than restoring from tape, you can easily train the users to do it
>>> for themselves.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "tester" <tester@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:117kuntkjh8bu27@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> OK wierd stuff happening.
>>>> I have all the users my documents folders redirected to teh sbs server.
>>>> Some of my users log onto each other's systems when helping etc.
>>>> Today one user told me all of his my documents, and sub folders were
>>>> gone!, I checked the server, he was right, except for my pictures,
>>>> everything was gone. Fortunately I had a backup.
>>>> Upon further investigation, his files were synching with another user's
>>>> folder, which then was synching with another.
>>>>
>>>> It's like if joe is logged in, then the synch happens, it also tries to
>>>> synch anyone else's files with the server that has ever logged into a
>>>> pc, even the administrator's folders!
>>>>
>>>> then errors on access issues etc,but what gives. Should I disable that
>>>> stuff and repoint it all back to the pc's? the whole idea was to back
>>>> it up contstantly. It has saved us a few times already and they like
>>>> it, but the offline files and the synch messing up is scaring me.
>>>>
>>>> are there any logs about this stuff recorded anywhere I can look at?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
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