Hi Guys,
Not sure if this belongs here but I'll give it a shot if it's wrong section mod please move it to correct section.
Here is my situation. I am running Windows Server 08 on my workplace. We are an insurance business and we have a share drive from the server that that gives all user all rights, edit, delete, write, read within that folder. My problem is the delete across the network drive. On the share drive(from server) if a user(another computer on the network - not the server) accidentally deletes the file then it's gone. It doesn't go into the server's recycling bin. Now I know what you are going to say, use a backup. We do have a backup, problem is the backup is every night. Mainly our problem is user error. Accidental delete happens from time to time because the share drive is design like that but sometimes when you delete a file by accident you want to be able to just grab it back from recycle bin instead of having to restore from yesterdays compress tape backup which takes too long and you lose all the changes that was made to that file since backup. Again problem is user accidental delete combine with inefficiency/time recovery from backup.
I have a synology box at home which is a nas drive, but it is linux base and it does exactly what I want except can't figure out how to make windows do it. On the synology; if i delete a file on the nas box remotely from another computer it would go into the nas recycling bin instead of just gone. Why doesn't windows do this even when recyle bin is turned on from the server. Just a few google searches found tons of frustration on this issue as to why windows doesn't enable/turn it on.
My question and also some suggestions from other people leads me to ask this question for you programmers. Someone told me I could try to see if someone could program an network delete "interrupt request" and somehow implement it on the server at core level; so that anytime someone deletes a file on the server via remote computer, it would treat it just like you are physicall in front of the server and actually deleting it so that it would go into recycling bin instead of flat out gone.
What do you guys think? How to get around this issue. Oh, BTW I already explore shadow copy - not efficient - share-point too slow and inefficient. I just want plain windows share drive so we can edit file, changes, delete when it's not needed, and in case accidentally delete, I want to be able to remotely log-in server and drag it out of recycling bin and back on share drive in less than 2 minutes.
I don't know but I think it's stupid on MS end not to have this feature when small linux box like synology has it. Frustrates me.
Can someone program a change in the core OS to allow this or what can we do, I am not interested in a third party software with different environment as that takes resources is not user friendly. Only thing I can think of is an old school program by Nortons. It's call rescue disk, I vaguely recall that It does set it's own recycling bin where delete files would go, but I don't know if it would even save it when delete from across network.
ALL help is greatly appreciated.
Andy
Moved to Operating Systems
Markbnj
Programming mod
Not sure if this belongs here but I'll give it a shot if it's wrong section mod please move it to correct section.
Here is my situation. I am running Windows Server 08 on my workplace. We are an insurance business and we have a share drive from the server that that gives all user all rights, edit, delete, write, read within that folder. My problem is the delete across the network drive. On the share drive(from server) if a user(another computer on the network - not the server) accidentally deletes the file then it's gone. It doesn't go into the server's recycling bin. Now I know what you are going to say, use a backup. We do have a backup, problem is the backup is every night. Mainly our problem is user error. Accidental delete happens from time to time because the share drive is design like that but sometimes when you delete a file by accident you want to be able to just grab it back from recycle bin instead of having to restore from yesterdays compress tape backup which takes too long and you lose all the changes that was made to that file since backup. Again problem is user accidental delete combine with inefficiency/time recovery from backup.
I have a synology box at home which is a nas drive, but it is linux base and it does exactly what I want except can't figure out how to make windows do it. On the synology; if i delete a file on the nas box remotely from another computer it would go into the nas recycling bin instead of just gone. Why doesn't windows do this even when recyle bin is turned on from the server. Just a few google searches found tons of frustration on this issue as to why windows doesn't enable/turn it on.
My question and also some suggestions from other people leads me to ask this question for you programmers. Someone told me I could try to see if someone could program an network delete "interrupt request" and somehow implement it on the server at core level; so that anytime someone deletes a file on the server via remote computer, it would treat it just like you are physicall in front of the server and actually deleting it so that it would go into recycling bin instead of flat out gone.
What do you guys think? How to get around this issue. Oh, BTW I already explore shadow copy - not efficient - share-point too slow and inefficient. I just want plain windows share drive so we can edit file, changes, delete when it's not needed, and in case accidentally delete, I want to be able to remotely log-in server and drag it out of recycling bin and back on share drive in less than 2 minutes.
I don't know but I think it's stupid on MS end not to have this feature when small linux box like synology has it. Frustrates me.
Can someone program a change in the core OS to allow this or what can we do, I am not interested in a third party software with different environment as that takes resources is not user friendly. Only thing I can think of is an old school program by Nortons. It's call rescue disk, I vaguely recall that It does set it's own recycling bin where delete files would go, but I don't know if it would even save it when delete from across network.
ALL help is greatly appreciated.
Andy
Moved to Operating Systems
Markbnj
Programming mod
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