Is there undelete in Novell Netware

[Mojak]

Is there undelete in Novell Netware, if there is how?

I'm a total newbee when it comes to novell, I used Win NT before. Please help...

 

[Visitor]

From a DOS prompt, enter the command FILER. This lets you recover deleted files. In Windows Explorer, right-click on the directory where the files were deleted from and then left-click on Salvage Files.

 

[yvfwc]

Salvage works great as long as deleted files are not set to purge immediately or are purged manually. NW also keeps multiple file versions of the same file as it is changed and saved. I've had users somehow corrupt a file that is used once or twice a month and been able to salvage an earlier version and not go to my tape backup. The access to salvage in explorer is only available with the Novell client32, but is very user friendly.

Cheers,

Mark ;-)

 

[Mojak]

Thanks!!!

Guys your reply is very helpful. Many Thanks

Julius

 

[SM777]

One other point, You cant salvage directories. If you delete one, then all the files go into the hidden dir DELETED.SAV which is on the root of each volume.

If you do delete a directory and its contents, then drill to the DELETED.SAV dir and salvage from there. You may find thousands of stuff though so best to sort on deleted date or user to quickly find the stuff you need to recover.

 

[codo]

i couldn't find the DELETED.SAV directory. I tried to find it using " Ndir *sav /h command from F:\SYS " but i found nothing. please help me

 

[TheLad]

The DELETED.SAV directory is in the root of every volume. It is hidden so you cannot see it.

Best thing to do is to run a command prompt, change to the drive that you wish to salvage from (drive has to be mapped at the root ie. map q:=server\sys, then CD DELETED.SAV. Run FILER and carry on as normal. -----------------------------------------------------
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