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Re: [Networker] User file deletions between incrementals
2009-10-28 18:03:18
HORWITZ, STANLEY R. wrote:
On 10 28, 2009, at 4:45 PM, Andi Weiderpass wrote:
Does anyone now how or if Networker tracks file deletions between
incrementals?
I have Networker clients installed on several Windows servers and I
have
incrementals scheduled during the weekdays and fulls on the weekends.
Let's say a user deletes a file (intentionally) on a Tuesday and I
have a
system crash on Friday. To recover, I'll need to start with the
full from
the previous weekend which will restore the deleted file. As I
continure
to recover from the incrementals will the file be removed, at some
point,
before I am all done?
Intentionally deleted files will be recovered. In fact, you could
conceivably restore more data then your client has capacity to hold if
just prior to the system crash, its disk was close to its capacity and
someone intentionally deleted some files and created some other files.
I am referring to standard files, not databases. I am not sure what
happens with a database, but I suspect a similar situation would occur.
Hmm ... I was always under the impression that this was not the case, at
least not with a browsable recover. I thought the whole point of a
browse recover was that NW was supposed to be able to rebuild the
directory, or file system, exactly the way it last appeared, so it ought
to remove deleted files since the deletion of files gets updated in the
client index, assuming, of course, that they were ever backed up. You
can see this when you change browse times from the client. If the file
was backed up today, and tomorrow it's deleted then the running
nwrecover after the next backup should show that it's gone, but browsing
back to the day before should show it there.
On the other hand, save set recover would not do that, so if multiple
instances were being recovered, they would just keep adding or
overwriting as the case may be since this makes no use of the client index.
Maybe I'm wrong, but that's what I thought. Then again, seems almost
everything I've thought lately has turned out to be wrong. Sigh ...
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