Got a call this morning that a folder on the server was missing... The folder is over 100gigs and something that gets used everyday.
i remote into the server and its not visible but the size of the server is the same as yesterday , I check previous versions or shadow copies and the folder is there
as of yesterday at noon . I didnt just want to restore i want to get to the bottom of this we never had the issue before . So i hurry up into work.
I cant find this file any where i have done searches, checked event viewer ,checked audit log and it no where . For the purpose of testing i drag and dropped 1 folder into another which is a common user error and if the folder is large is disappears if the folder is small it is moved . So now i have lost 2 very large very important folders. I cant restore from shadow copies because the folders are both so large i dont have room on my server to accommodate them. I know there somewhere on here again the size of the server did not change from yesterday to this morning or when i moved and lost the second folder while testing.
Can anyone suggest anything. I may have to call mocrosoft and pay 500 for a support call but i would really prefer not to.
For those that dont know me ... I am in a small office environment . We have about 20 computers but we are down to about 8 users since covid ,
we are running a dell Rack server ... Running windows 2012 R2.. I have it set up as a host with 2 VHDs. One Vhd is our DNS server and it holds several shared drives , The second Vhd is just for QuickBooks and only runs the QuickBooks software and host a few QB files .
Can anyone give me any ideas? Is there a software i can use to scan these drives for these files besides the normal search.
Also i turned on and off the folder option of showing hidden files just in case but it didn't change anything . I searched by filters other then just the name of the folder . Im really at a lost here...
Thanks for any help.
i remote into the server and its not visible but the size of the server is the same as yesterday , I check previous versions or shadow copies and the folder is there
as of yesterday at noon . I didnt just want to restore i want to get to the bottom of this we never had the issue before . So i hurry up into work.
I cant find this file any where i have done searches, checked event viewer ,checked audit log and it no where . For the purpose of testing i drag and dropped 1 folder into another which is a common user error and if the folder is large is disappears if the folder is small it is moved . So now i have lost 2 very large very important folders. I cant restore from shadow copies because the folders are both so large i dont have room on my server to accommodate them. I know there somewhere on here again the size of the server did not change from yesterday to this morning or when i moved and lost the second folder while testing.
Can anyone suggest anything. I may have to call mocrosoft and pay 500 for a support call but i would really prefer not to.
For those that dont know me ... I am in a small office environment . We have about 20 computers but we are down to about 8 users since covid ,
we are running a dell Rack server ... Running windows 2012 R2.. I have it set up as a host with 2 VHDs. One Vhd is our DNS server and it holds several shared drives , The second Vhd is just for QuickBooks and only runs the QuickBooks software and host a few QB files .
Can anyone give me any ideas? Is there a software i can use to scan these drives for these files besides the normal search.
Also i turned on and off the folder option of showing hidden files just in case but it didn't change anything . I searched by filters other then just the name of the folder . Im really at a lost here...
Thanks for any help.