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From: Mike O. on 3 Feb 2010 19:17
I am a Windows system admin for a city government. We have about 5,000
users, and about 120 Windows 2003 servers.

I have been tasked to look into file undelete software that would allow our
users to recover deleted files from network shares on some of our larger
file servers. I know about the Diskkeeper Network Undelete software, and
had used an older version several years ago, but since we're a government
agency, we need to attempt to evaluate multiple solutions.

The problem is that I'm having trouble finding any other similar software.
I've done various internet searches, but pretty much all I'm finding
(besides Diskkeeper) is software used more in a forensic type; recovery of
deleted partitions, getting files off of failed or wiped hard drives, etc.,
or strictly workstation type systems, nothing that would be useful in an
enterprise setting.

The main server this would be running on is a Windows cluster with about 5TB
of shared SAN storage, and about 12 million user files. The ultimate goal
of management is to have a solution that would allow users to recover their
own files, and reduce the need for restores from backups.

As I said, we used Diskkeeper Network Undelete about 5 years ago, but
removed it due to performance issues and some storage limitations on the
hardware we had at the time.

Any opinions (on Network Undelete or other alternatives), would be
appreciated.

Mike O.

From: Danny Sanders on 4 Feb 2010 09:54
Have you looked into shadow copy? It's built into Windows and with little
training the user can recover the files themselves.
See
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/storage/vds/default.mspx

hth
DDS

"Mike O." <putthespam(a)thecan.com> wrote in message
news:OMTUs9SpKHA.1544(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>I am a Windows system admin for a city government. We have about 5,000
>users, and about 120 Windows 2003 servers.
>
> I have been tasked to look into file undelete software that would allow
> our users to recover deleted files from network shares on some of our
> larger file servers. I know about the Diskkeeper Network Undelete
> software, and had used an older version several years ago, but since we're
> a government agency, we need to attempt to evaluate multiple solutions.
>
> The problem is that I'm having trouble finding any other similar software.
> I've done various internet searches, but pretty much all I'm finding
> (besides Diskkeeper) is software used more in a forensic type; recovery of
> deleted partitions, getting files off of failed or wiped hard drives,
> etc., or strictly workstation type systems, nothing that would be useful
> in an enterprise setting.
>
> The main server this would be running on is a Windows cluster with about
> 5TB of shared SAN storage, and about 12 million user files. The ultimate
> goal of management is to have a solution that would allow users to recover
> their own files, and reduce the need for restores from backups.
>
> As I said, we used Diskkeeper Network Undelete about 5 years ago, but
> removed it due to performance issues and some storage limitations on the
> hardware we had at the time.
>
> Any opinions (on Network Undelete or other alternatives), would be
> appreciated.
>
> Mike O.


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