Preventing accidental data loss with mapped drives

[The Lurker]

For those who remember. This is an offshoot of the conversation we had about folder sharing. Now that everything is setup the questions continue.

Long story short: I have a server at home acting as a NAS and I have mapped drives to a few computers. Now I realize that with one foul swoop a user can delete the contents of the folder to which they should have full access to and nothing will end up in the recycle bin.

Is there any way to prevent that from happening while still retaining write/read/delete access to the folder?

 

[hotcrandel]

Setting permissions properly can ensure a single user can only vape their own data, instead of everyone's. Learning how to do permissions properly has a bit of a curve but is useful in the home NAS situation.

If its a windows NAS, "Volume Shadow Copy" can possibly keep this from happening, as long as the user doesn't start filling up the drive after clearing it out. You may want to allocate a significant amount of space to VSC, depending on how much versioning you want.

There are similar features in FreeNAS I believe with ZFS snapshots.

Backups are always another good option. If you don't have any, a single disk you clone data too once a day can go a long way with mitigating issues like this.

 

[staticlag]

Snapshots/Shadow Copy are probably your best bet as mentioned above.

But you can enable recycle bin on samba, http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/VFS.html#id2651247

 

[drescherjm]

I also recommend snapshots. btrfs snapshots along with nightly mirroring to alternate servers have saved me from most backup recovery requests for accidental file deletion ...

 

[The Lurker]

This is a windows 7 machine. So I will google Volume Shadow Copy and see how far I can get with that.

To answer another question, I already setup permissions as I need them to prevent accidental deletion. Problem is, If I want to write to the folder that holds all my media I need to open the permissions. What I would like is to leave the write access on all the time, but if something goes wrong and something gets deleted I would like to have an easy way to recover the file.

 

[drescherjm]

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