You can restore a file locally by accessing the UNC. If your old versions disappeared, you likely were bitten by the wonderful inability of VSS to handle an iota of IO, see a thread a week ago...
jlc From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 6:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VSS query Yeah, but VSS only works over network drives, as I was reminded when I tried. I am pretty sure I restored a file the other day and now the Previous Versions tab is blank for files, but not folders. I've just done a sneaky reboot of the fileserver and no difference. I am a little confused, especially as I don't fancy restoring 200GB VMWare vmdk files for a couple of Excel spreadsheets. :-) 2009/5/15 Benjamin Zachary - Lists <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> VSS works at the drive level so the inability to restore files but the folder would make me think something is corrupt or similar. I cant recall ever seeing the ability to decipher between being able to do one or the other. Did you try it from the server itself? From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 8:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: VSS query For some reason my users have lost all the Previous Versions via VSS for individual files - they can now only restore folders. I am pretty sure this was different before. Am I going insane, or have I misconfigured something without realising? TIA, JRR ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
