MarkLappin
IS-IT--Management
Howdy All,
Where I work we are very very dependant on the integrity of the files we store on our server (who isint!). We do have backups but only 2 days worth (don't get me started on that!). Our main "data" share is setup in such a way permission wise that users can write, read and modify items but they cannot delete or rename items.
I work part time and occassionally things come up which needs something renamed or deleted, I have a group called Data Managers which consist of our office manager (who does not use the stuff on the data share) and one of the employees whose actually my boss (he's also a domain admin).
We had a file go up and missing on us out of this share which hasn't been accessed in about 6 months (last printed copy we have which they've been hand updating and now its time to update the file [I run their servers, not their business model and tryign to get them to change is impossible; this is a 10 page tables of dates, amounts, and costs in a word perfect wpd file! Trying to get them to put this in access or excel or quadropro is nearly impossible, ugh, lawyers!).
The problem is we lost this file on the server, since I only have stuff for 2 days of backups (on a good day) I can't go back and pull something from March....and of course nobody wants to own up to deleting this file off the server!. I'd like to know if there is a way to turn some kind of auditing or tracking on the file system where I can go and look at whose writing files, modifying, and/or deleting files. Any thoughts on this?
We're looking into a document management system of sorts but its not going to really help with this. Ideally for the way they want to manage documents (I can't tell you the number of times that I've had to get a file from "backup" because some secretary deleted a paragraph that their boss didn't want deleted (thank g-d for shadow copies!!!) I'd want something like VSS or a CVS system with all of the document histories and such.
MAL
Where I work we are very very dependant on the integrity of the files we store on our server (who isint!). We do have backups but only 2 days worth (don't get me started on that!). Our main "data" share is setup in such a way permission wise that users can write, read and modify items but they cannot delete or rename items.
I work part time and occassionally things come up which needs something renamed or deleted, I have a group called Data Managers which consist of our office manager (who does not use the stuff on the data share) and one of the employees whose actually my boss (he's also a domain admin).
We had a file go up and missing on us out of this share which hasn't been accessed in about 6 months (last printed copy we have which they've been hand updating and now its time to update the file [I run their servers, not their business model and tryign to get them to change is impossible; this is a 10 page tables of dates, amounts, and costs in a word perfect wpd file! Trying to get them to put this in access or excel or quadropro is nearly impossible, ugh, lawyers!).
The problem is we lost this file on the server, since I only have stuff for 2 days of backups (on a good day) I can't go back and pull something from March....and of course nobody wants to own up to deleting this file off the server!. I'd like to know if there is a way to turn some kind of auditing or tracking on the file system where I can go and look at whose writing files, modifying, and/or deleting files. Any thoughts on this?
We're looking into a document management system of sorts but its not going to really help with this. Ideally for the way they want to manage documents (I can't tell you the number of times that I've had to get a file from "backup" because some secretary deleted a paragraph that their boss didn't want deleted (thank g-d for shadow copies!!!) I'd want something like VSS or a CVS system with all of the document histories and such.
MAL
