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February 5th, 2008 02:00

Media consistency check

HI,

If somone has manualy deleted some files of a NAS media the media is inconsistend

Is there a way to do an consistency check on a media,
(because DX still thinks that those files exists and purges without a check and you have a data loss)

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February 5th, 2008 05:00

You must tightly control access to the NAS path used as media in a DX system. For example \\server\nas should only be accessible to the DX service account. Users will access the DX server to write and read files that ultimately get stored to the NAS device. As far as checking consistency, you could create directory listings of the extended drive and nas media to compare.
The command to create the list would look something like: dir *.* /s /b >drive.txt
Hope this makes sense.

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February 6th, 2008 00:00

I now that you need to restrict access, but the problem started when the DX was crashing allot,

now there is an inconsistency and there is everyday a list of pending renames that fails to find the files,
After 1day there are more then 600G in queue

If I need to verify manualy this I'm gone for a few weeks
(its more then 5TB and more than 100M of files)(and there are 5servers like this with every server an average of 10 extended drives of this amount)

so this dus not lika an option

February 12th, 2008 13:00

aside from locking down the NAS to all except the domain administrators, there is a utility that can compare what is on the extended drive and what is on the NAS.
The utility is called DXNASverify and can be obtained from DX support
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