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CadenL
Level 6
5 years ago

Deleting files where placeholder has been deleted

Hi Single EV server running EV 12.3 and just doing file system archiving from a single Windows NTFS file server with the FSA agent installed Currently have the setting not to delete the archived ...
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    plaudone1
    5 years ago

    Hi CadenL,

    The setting will only work for items moving forward and does not reconcile what was already deleted.  

    You could run FSAUtility -c to recreate the placeholder files and log it to a file.  The file will be in the Reports\FSAUtility folder in root of EV install path. 

    FSAUtility -c -s \\server\share\folder -l 0 

    This will log all the successful recreations and the ones that failed due to file exists.  You could then script the deletion of the items that were recreated since those would have been items previously deleted from file server.  That should then remove the item from the archive as well.  The script could be run in batches to avoid overloading SQL.

    Thanks,

    Patrick 

plaudone1's avatar
plaudone1
Level 6
5 years ago

Hi CadenL,

The setting will only work for items moving forward and does not reconcile what was already deleted.  

You could run FSAUtility -c to recreate the placeholder files and log it to a file.  The file will be in the Reports\FSAUtility folder in root of EV install path. 

FSAUtility -c -s \\server\share\folder -l 0 

This will log all the successful recreations and the ones that failed due to file exists.  You could then script the deletion of the items that were recreated since those would have been items previously deleted from file server.  That should then remove the item from the archive as well.  The script could be run in batches to avoid overloading SQL.

Thanks,

Patrick 

  • CadenL's avatar
    CadenL
    Level 6
    5 years ago

    Hi Patrick

    Thanks for much - I'll follow that process. It sounds like a good approach to me.

    kind regards