Shadow Copy for a single folder?

arwes

I've got some users that tend to accidentally delete letter templates that our insurance software uses. Unfortunately the software is set up to keep the client attachments (quotes, emails, property pictures) on the same volume. The "Images" folder alone is over 100 GB. Anyone know of a way I can just do Shadow Copy only on our "Templates" folder?

dynamik

It's only per partition. You could run a xcopy/robocopy script on a schedule.

RobertKaucher

For stuff like this I use Cobian Backup. It's free. I set it up to copy to the backup server and grant users only read access to the backup folders. It allows me to also do incremental backups, etc... It's a good little tool to combat human error like this.

Devilsbane

Maybe you should investigate the permissions on it. Limit the number of users that have the delete permission could lessen the load of restores coming your way.

Otherwise I think dyanmik has a good idea, except backing up a 100gb folder nightly could turn into a chore. The same goal could be achieved using ntbackup with an full/incremental or full/differential backup scheme so that you don't have 100gb of data being continually copied.

dynamik

Devilsbane wrote: »

Otherwise I think dyanmik has a good idea, except backing up a 100gb folder nightly could turn into a chore.

By default, robocopy will only copy files that have been modified. It compares timestamps before copying the files.

RobertKaucher

Devilsbane wrote: »

Otherwise I think dyanmik has a good idea, except backing up a 100gb folder nightly could turn into a chore. The same goal could be achieved using ntbackup with an full/incremental or full/differential backup scheme so that you don't have 100gb of data being continually copied.

He only needs to backup the templates folder. So this isn't really an issue.

I have tried to go the limit permissions way and found that some application will not run if the user has been denied delete.

Devilsbane

RobertKaucher wrote: »

I have tried to go the limit permissions way and found that some application will not run if the user has been denied delete.

Very interesting. I was thinking "now why would that be." Probably for temporary files, so I opened up Word, and stuck it in a folder where I dened delete files and sub folders to myself. After I opened the document the "~$w Microsoft Word Document.doc" file didn't disappear like it normally would when you close the document. Also, every time I save the file I get 3 new .tmp files created.

So I can see why this could muck up some programs. Thanks for the insight.

RobertKaucher

Devilsbane wrote: »

Very interesting. I was thinking "now why would that be." Probably for temporary files, so I opened up Word, and stuck it in a folder where I dened delete files and sub folders to myself. After I opened the document the "~$w Microsoft Word Document.doc" file didn't disappear like it normally would when you close the document. Also, every time I save the file I get 3 new .tmp files created.

So I can see why this could muck up some programs. Thanks for the insight.

Another triumph for the scientific method!

The application I am thinking of is TaxWise. I believe it uses a scratch type temp file that it expects to be able to clean up after commiting transactions. W/O delte perms it just craps out.

mikedisd2

RobertKaucher wrote: »

I believe it uses a scratch type temp file that it expects to be able to clean up after commiting transactions. W/O delte perms it just craps out.

Damn, that just solved an issue I had 3x years ago at a client site.