I didn't claim that Previous Versions is the same as Undelete, or even a direct replacement.
I just asked whether they don't (or do) work for previous poster. It's a different technology, but it may provide the same end result that is being looked for. Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Scott Sent: Thursday, 18 July 2013 10:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Nostalgia On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: >> Undelete (SALVAGE). > > Shadow Copies/Previous Versions don't work for you? Volume snapshots are not undelete. Snapshots are a block-level thing. Microsoft's implementation also has a disturbing tendency to spontaneously purge themselves unless you throw a ton of resources at it (at least, I'm told that's the fix). VSS is also fragile in the face of a complex mounting scheme, we discovered the hard way. Volume snapshots may achieve the same end goal as undelete and file versions, but doing it at the file level really makes more sense, IMO. If nothing else, an old version or delete can have a long lifetime vs a snapshot system that would rotate more often due to high-churn files. -- Ben
