User Guide

Overview of Traditional File System 15
Traditional File Services Administration Guide
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August 30, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
Salvageable Files
Salvageable files are files saved by NetWare, after being deleted by users, that
can be salvaged (recovered).
Salvageable files are usually stored in the directory they were deleted from. If
a user deletes that directory, the salvageable files are saved in a
DELETED.SAV directory located in the volume's root directory.
The user can view a list of deleted files in a directory and recover files by using
ConsoleOne
TM
. For more information on salvaging files, see Salvaging and
Purging Deleted Files on NetWare Volumes in the ConsoleOne 1.3 User
Guide. Recovered files contain information about who deleted the files and
when they were deleted.
Deleted files are saved until the user deliberately purges them or until the
NetWare server runs out of disk allocation blocks on the volume.
File Purging
When the NetWare server runs out of blocks, it purges deleted files beginning
with the files that were the first deleted. Purged files cannot be salvaged.
Files and directories can also be purged as they are deleted. You can do this
one of two ways:
 Use the SET command at the NetWare server to disable the salvageable
file feature. For instructions on how to use SET, see SET in the Utilities
Reference.You do this by setting the parameter named Immediate Purge
of Deleted Files to ON. This increases performance, but at the cost of
losing the salvageable file feature. The default for this parameter is OFF
(this means that by default, files are salvaged when they are deleted
instead of being purged immediately).
 Set the Purge attribute for individual files and directories. When a file is
flagged with the Purge attribute, the file is purged when it is deleted.
When a directory is flagged with the Purge attribute, all files in that
directory are purged when the directory is deleted. Such files and
directories can't be recovered.
 Use ConsoleOne to manually purge individual files and directories. For
instructions, see Salvaging and Purging Deleted Files on NetWare
Vo l u m e s in the ConsoleOne 1.3 User Guide.