Tandberg DataTable of Content

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3.5.

Disk Management

3-5

3.6.

Guidelines for Managing Disks & Volumes

3-7

3.7.

RAID & Volume Management

3-8

3.8.

Scheduling Defragmentation

3-10

3.9.

Disk Quotas

3-10

3.10.

Using Diskpart

3-11

3.10.1.

Example of using Diskpart

3-13

3.11.

Adding Storage

3-13

3.11.1.

Expanding Storage

3-13

3.11.2.

Extending Storage using Disk Management

3-14

3.12.

File Services Features in Windows Storage Server 2003 R2

3-14

3.12.1.

Storage Manager for SANs

3-14

3.12.2.

Single Instance Storage

3-15

3.12.3.

File Server Resource Manage

3-15

3.12.4.

Windows SharePoint Services

3-15

3.12.5.

Windows Storage Server Management Console

3-16

4.

Volume Shadow Copy Service(VSS)

4-1

4.1.

Volume Shadow Copy Service Overview

4-1

4.2.

Planning for use of Shadow Copy

4-2

4.2.1.

Identifying the Volume

4-2

4.2.2.

Allocating Disk Space

4-3

4.2.3.

Identifying the Storage Area

4-4

4.2.4.

Determining Creation Frequency

4-5

4.2.4.

Shadow Copies & Disk Defragmentation

4-5

4.2.5.

Mounted Drives

4-6

4.3.

Managing Shadow Copies

4-6

4.3.1.

Shadow Copy Cache File

4-8

4.4.

Enabling and Creating Shadow Copies

4-10

4.5.

Viewing List of Shadow Copies

4-11

4.6.

Scheduling Shadow Copies

4-11

4.6.1.

Setting Shadow Copy Schedule

4-11

4.6.2.

Deleting Shadow Copy Schedule

4-12

4.6.3.

Viewing Properties of Shadow Copies

4-12

4.6.4.

Redirecting Shadow Copies to Alternate Volume

4-13

4.6.4.

Disabling Shadow Copies

4-14

4.7.

Shadow Copies for Shared Folders

4-15

4.7.1.

SMB Access to Shadow Copies

4-15

4.7.2.

NFS Access to Shadow Copies

4-17

4.8.

Recovery of Files and Folders

4-18

4.8.1.

Recovering Deleted Files or Folders

4-18

4.8.2.

Recovering Overwritten or Corrupted Files

4-19

4.8.3.

Recovering Folders

4-20

4.9.

Backup & Shadow Copies

4-21

4.10.

Shadow Copy Transport

4-21

5.

User & Group Management

5-1

5.1.

Overview

5-1

5.2.

Domain versus Workgroup Environments

5-1

5.3.

User & Group Name Planning

5-2

5.3.1.

Managing User Names

5-2

5.3.2.

Managing Group Names

5-3

5.4.

Workgroup User & Group Management

5-3

6.

Folder & Share Management

6-1

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Tandberg Data Viking FS-1500, Viking FS-1600, Viking FS-412 manual Volume Shadow Copy ServiceVSS

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