Hi everyone,Just looking to find out some advice for an IT setup I currently provide some support for at a local business. Need some advice about an IT setup Databases.Now in present situation, the wire goes out from 1s. Earlier i was using net only in the upper floor, so been using the wire for years indoors. dont know much.I am using my cat 5e wire as an extension for the router in ground floor. Does cat 5e require some shielding if exposed to sun? Networking.I've also seen some circumstances with "Make files available offline" enabled that has files appear or disappear depending on whether a sync occurred or if they were attached to the live network. I've had many an executive complain only to learn that the file they were attempting to open was from their beach chair at home by the pool, and the file is stored on our network at the office. It's usually that many hands are in the folder and somebody accidentally drags a file to a subfolder or renames the wrong file, or something like that.Īlso, check if the users experiencing the "missing files" are on the network live. affect the actual file storage location, which would cause it to appear in the directory, but be unreadable.affect the directory index files which would not neatly remove one file and not another.If files ever disappeared from a drive, it wouldn't be limited to one folder, and data corruption would either: The first clue is when the files that are missing all happen to be in folders accessible by a group of people, and then just that one. If they know what the name is, just search the entire data storage system.Įvery single time I've heard this complaint from someone, it has turned out to be human error.
Files that vanish though are 9/10 caused by user deletion or overwriting / moving the file. More likely to be dragged off into another folder by a fat-fingered user.That's why we have snapshots and backups and such. It's probably not true that you haven't lost files over the years - in those 200,000,000 files, how would you have noticed? You never looked for a file that you swore you saved or downloaded and couldn't find it?Ī file left sitting on a server for a year? Not likely to disappear, I agree. I'd like to believe that the NTFS system file table is incorruptible, that there are checksums and detectors. Need more convincing? Why does a perfectly functioning Window system suddenly stop booting and the only fix is a clean install? Why else would we have the command sfc /scannow? If files can corrupt without user intervention, they should be able to disappear completely. In the same way that they can spontaneously corrupt. If I remember correctly, I was able to shave off about 60 GB of duplicated orphaned files from that research, most of them several years old (not in the example above of course.) I noticed the requests for restores were very common with TRACKBALL users.Ĭould files just disappear? Sure they could. I eventually ran a duplicate checking util along with windirstat to locate these duplicate files as we were about to migrate to a hosted file server.
where things had been dragged around like Robert mentioned. What I found was one department that had several layers of folders with the same name and same content, like T:\Finance\Budgets\Budget2016\Budgets\Budgets2016 etc etc. I have had users tell me their files are "missing" from the server and after some digging, its usually moved to a different folder or they deleted it themselves.Īt my last job, I would overhear the helpdesk techs doing restores for end users who's files suddenly were "missing." I overheard this so often that I finally started requiring that they get a specific file or folder name to look for so we could search before restoring from backup.
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