Blue_Cookeh Posted January 13, 2015 Posted January 13, 2015 Hi All, We recently had our first major server failure at school where, to cut a long story short, a RAID array ended up failed and took some backups out with it. Now, we didn't really lose too much information aside from our staff's roaming user profiles. Now at the moment all staff are still working fine since their profiles were entirely cached offline on their Win7/8/8.1 clients, but I need to fix the server side ASAP. Does anyone have any ideas on what to do in this situation? I fear if I remake all the user profile shares again then the Windows clients will freak out when they see empty folders and think they should clear their local caches too. I'm tempted to get a logon script to map a new drive and go around manually copying everyone's data to a new share and just seeing what happens, but was looking to you guys for any advice... (Yes, I've reworked our backup solution and now have DFS enabled across two servers for all our shares!)
timbo343 Posted January 13, 2015 Posted January 13, 2015 With profiles it shouldnt matter if the folders are empty. We have had profile problems in the past, if you make sure the path is the same you should be ok.
Blue_Cookeh Posted January 13, 2015 Author Posted January 13, 2015 Just tried it on a test user on a virtual machine (create account with roaming profile/folder redirections, login as user, make some files and make sure they sync, turn VM off, delete profile shares, VM back on, using cached stuff, VM back off, remake shares blank as new, VM back on) and lost all data for that account Need to find a way to do this...
cpjitservices Posted January 14, 2015 Posted January 14, 2015 If its files your needing to get back if you can login to the cached accounts are all files there ? if so back them up and create a new user profile. Import the data.
Blue_Cookeh Posted January 14, 2015 Author Posted January 14, 2015 If its files your needing to get back if you can login to the cached accounts are all files there ? if so back them up and create a new user profile. Import the data. Yes, everyone's data is still on their clients since they were cached offline. I think this is going to be the only way around it...
cpjitservices Posted January 14, 2015 Posted January 14, 2015 (edited) To be fair what I'd do is go through each account - back up the data and create A brand new roaming account for each user... don't restore the data just make sure things like Email and Office are working... Then - when they ask were is such and such a file give it to them. Id take the opportunity to make this a general cleanup. If they want data then restore all of the data. Obviously Id keep the data backed up somewhere else for a while. Edited January 14, 2015 by cpjitservices 1
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