Tip no. 06-08
by Bill Sill, Sr. Technical Analyst/Consultant since 1990
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Tip of the week: Recover a file or folder from N:
Now that we are moving to NetFile (a.k.a. N: drive) and off of AFS (a.k.a. H: drive) you’ll find that restoring a file from your personal network drive won’t always require contacting the OIT. With AFS, you had two options for restoring a file
- Copy from the Yestrday folder or
- Contact OIT
In Netfile the backup period has been extended so you can now recover a file as old as 8 days. Unfortunately, any files older than 8 days will require you to contact the OIT.
Here’s how to restore a previous version of a file.
- Using Explorer or My Computer, locate the file
you want to restore from Netfile.
- Right-click the file, and click Properties. The Properties dialog box will appear.
In the screen shot at the right I am trying to restore the file named N:\Private\netsc7\default\bookmarks.html.
- Click the 'Previous Versions' tab (circled in red at right).
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- On the Previous Versions tab, click the version of the file that you want to restore, then click the 'Restore' button.
In the screen shot at the left I want to restore the file from Friday.
NetFile will save versions of files each day for eight days.
You’ll notice that I only have 6 backup files of the bookmarks.html file. That’s because I didn’t make a change to this file before Tuesday.
See Notes below.
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5. A warning message about restoring a previous version will appear. Click Yes to complete the procedure.
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Restoring a previous version of a file will delete the current version.
If you choose to restore a previous version of a folder, the folder will be restored to its state at the date and time of the version you selected. You will lose any changes that you have made to all files in the folder since that time.
If you do not want to delete the current version of a file or folder, use the Copy… button to copy the previous version to a different location. |
Notes and other oddities
- If there are no previous versions listed, the file has not changed since the oldest copy was taken.
- When you restore a previous version of a folder, files in the current folder that were not contained in the previous version of the folder will not be erased.
- When you restore a file, the file permissions will not be changed; permissions will remain the same as they were before the restore. When you copy a previous version of a file, the permissions will be set to the default permissions for the directory where the copy of the file is placed.
- Restoring a large directory puts a heavy load on the file server and can result in previous versions being deleted. Try to restore individual files instead of entire directories whenever possible.