Hello salmon ...
I dont need to see message about file count. ((( Update: Just realized when i pulled up this page and selected ALL it somehow showed the last item on page 1. So I thought this was a recent question as seen in pic. Time for more coffee
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Some updates to this that dont really affect what was created is that I added another location that isnt in a hidden directory and gave the users the ability to have access to a copy of what is archived in c:\archiveshadowcopy at a location of c:\shadowcopyarchive. No one but me knows about the hidden full local backup at c:\zcopy and the archive by date at c:\archiveshadowcopy . I figured I would trust the 12 users to have access to a copy of the archive data which they have been instructed not to use any files here as active documents to build on from until a copy of whatever file they need is moved away from C:\shadowcopyarchive to their workspace on the NAS. I was going to flag all data as read-only, but decided to hold off on that because the users arent skilled enough to flip it back to read/write permissions. So going to see how it goes with read/write enabled archive space.
If they foul up their archive by accidentally deleting something or altering something, I still have the hidden hands off location to get the original data from. The users are very excited that any data saved before 2am is recoverable in the future as for lots of users have lost data before.
The setup is just 2 computers sharing a low cost NAS for our union here. And because of my skills I was asked to make things better. Data integrity was the first importance to make corrections to. There were users not even using the NAS at times and data stored locally etc, it was a big mess. I set everyone up with their own user accounts and mapped space to their private folders and shared folders on the NAS, and set the default save locations to point to the NAS so that they have to intentionally tell it to save elsewhere.
So the backup solution I have in place is to use the extra space on the workstations in hidden folders to mirror the NAS data, then implement this batch that you helped greatly with to establish an archive that can be navigated by dated folders to have access to older versions of files if need be. Because everyone who has access to the computers is trusted and everyone is aware that their data can be seen by others who have the computer access, having everyones data accessible in one location in the archive where normally they only see their W: drive as their space isnt an issue. Each user has a folder in the archive that is named for easy identification.
One last final piece to the project will be to set up a google drive and have that mirror to the Z: drive, but it would need to be selective in what if backed up to the cloud as for we have more than 15GB of data. This way if there was ever a fire etc, the most important recent data isnt wiped out.
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