• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Shadow Copies

P

PurePeon

Senior member
Does anyone have any experience with this service in a large scale network? I'm talking 200+ users...so semi large? How well does it work?
 
It works very well. My only suggestion is that you keep the frequency of the snapshots low and ensure there is plenty of disk space.
 
Can you clarify the 64 copies limit? Does it do 64 copies on 1 file per volume or is it 64 files per volume. Does that mean only 64 people will have shadow copies while the rest of the people are SOL?
 
Is it 64? I thought it was less than that (cant remember off hand).

Whatever the case may be it's a limit per-file. As I understand it this limitation is in place because the shadow copies actually track bit-level changes; so if you were to retrieve a file w/ 64 shadow copies the system would need to get the 1st one and than apply every subsiquent change before presenting it.

The times that it is most useful is when users go and accidentally delete something they didnt mean to (which seems to happen all to often). No more pulling backup tapes for incidental recoveries!

I suggest playing with it in the lab before deploying it. When you do deploy it also start with a low snapshot frequency and work your way up (as opposed to the other way around).
 
Thanks Spy!! I've read that article already and many more. I was just wondering how it actually worked if it was per file or per volume. Cause keeping 64 copies of data on 1 volume isn't much. But if it's per file than that's way better.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top