ful56_uk Posted February 6, 2009 Posted February 6, 2009 Hi all Does anyone know of somthing that I can put on our webiste to allow students to fill in a form which then emails the ict support with the details from the form. Say for restoreing work?
danIT Posted February 6, 2009 Posted February 6, 2009 I think you can use GoogleDocs to create a form and have the results emailed to somebody: Creating forms - Google Docs Help
ful56_uk Posted February 6, 2009 Author Posted February 6, 2009 i found this Email Me Form™ - HTML Forms, Web Forms, PHP Forms
adhutton Posted February 6, 2009 Posted February 6, 2009 If you can run CGI (Perl) or PHP scripts then there are loads of free Formmail scripts (or similar) here: The CGI Resource Index or The PHP Resource Index Andrew
plexer Posted February 6, 2009 Posted February 6, 2009 If you use volume shadow copies why not allow users access to these then they can restore their own stuff? Ben
eejit Posted February 6, 2009 Posted February 6, 2009 If you use volume shadow copies why not allow users access to these then they can restore their own stuff? Ben That's what I was just about to say. Really easy to set up too.
garethEds Posted February 6, 2009 Posted February 6, 2009 If you use volume shadow copies why not allow users access to these then they can restore their own stuff? Ben Can you expand on this for me Ben? If I enable shadow copy on the server, how to the pupils then get their older/deleted versions back. Is it an easy thing to do? Gareth
Edu-IT Posted February 6, 2009 Posted February 6, 2009 You might also want to think about some sort of authentication so that you're not restoring work needlessly. If you can do an ASP page then you could probably grab the users AD name and make it so that can't be changed. That way you know that the request is coming from the right person.
Dom_ Posted February 6, 2009 Posted February 6, 2009 We just map a drive to yesterday's data with read access only
matt40k Posted February 6, 2009 Posted February 6, 2009 If you use volume shadow copies why not allow users access to these then they can restore their own stuff? Ben Symantec BackupExec does another add-in to this. So they can even restore from tape if need be. Far as Shadow copy, just right-click, then there is an extra tab, restore from previous versions. Needs software installing on the client (I believe).
SYNACK Posted February 6, 2009 Posted February 6, 2009 (edited) Can you expand on this for me Ben? If I enable shadow copy on the server, how to the pupils then get their older/deleted versions back. Is it an easy thing to do? Gareth Shadow copy rocks saves me so much time. Here are some instructions, really easy once you know how: Restoring a File with Shadow Copy How to Use the Shadow Copy Client Server Side: http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Windows-Server-2003-Volume-Shadow-Copy-Service.html http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/scrfaq.mspx Edited February 6, 2009 by SYNACK 1
garethEds Posted February 6, 2009 Posted February 6, 2009 I know this is a dull thing to say - but I love learning new stuff - even though I have known about it for ages. I've just never bothered to look at it. Now I am. Go on - everyone can now laugh at me. Gareth
garethEds Posted February 6, 2009 Posted February 6, 2009 How much space does Shadow Copy take up? How much space do I need on my servers? Or can I get shadow copy to put the older files on a NAS box? This is before I start reading - lol GJE
SYNACK Posted February 6, 2009 Posted February 6, 2009 (edited) How much space does Shadow Copy take up? How much space do I need on my servers? Or can I get shadow copy to put the older files on a NAS box? This is before I start reading - lol GJE You can store the shadow copies on a different drive but it must be local so unless your NAS offers iSCSI conectivity that is probably out. As for space you can define how much it is allowd to use, shadowcopy works with snapshots that happen at scheduled times. It depends on how much data is changed during the period as to how much space you need, also how far you want to go back as with lots of space you can have snapshots going back weeks. You can easily clear out space by using the server side tools to delete all but the most current snapshot and lower the amount of space that shadowcopy is allowed to use in the configuration. http://digitalcross.blogspot.com/2007/04/enable-shadow-copys-on-win2k3.html I know this is a dull thing to say - but I love learning new stuff - even though I have known about it for ages. I've just never bothered to look at it. Now I am. Go on - everyone can now laugh at me. Learning is a good thing, I don't think that anyone here would laugh at you for it. Edited February 6, 2009 by SYNACK 1
azrael78 Posted February 6, 2009 Posted February 6, 2009 (edited) How much space does Shadow Copy take up? How much space do I need on my servers? Or can I get shadow copy to put the older files on a NAS box? This is before I start reading - lol GJE I'm not sure on this - I get the feeling that it takes up however much space is required - meaning that it takes 'snapshots', so if say one of your drives on day 1 has 100GB used, and on day 2 it has 110GB, then I *think* the snapshot is 10GB. It may have compression in there somewhere too but I'm not sure. As for moving shadow-copies to another drive/NAS, I don't know if this is possible - I don't think it is, but IF it is - then I'd start using Shadow Copies myself. I hope this helps... even if it's a little bit Peace. Az Edit: Didn't see SYNACK's post... ignore mine then Edited February 6, 2009 by azrael78 1
garethEds Posted February 6, 2009 Posted February 6, 2009 Well- all looks good here. Created a new parition on our server of 300Gb and then set the drive I wanted to copy to save files there. Checked the schedule - twice a day - once during the lunch hour (12:40)and once when school has ended for the day (19:00) - I'm not sure how much of a performance hit there will be at 12:40 - hopefully not much - but if there is then I will just do it once a day. The client has been installed on two test machines and the first copy will be done this evening. It will then run daily from Monday. Does anyone know what sort of performance hit is on the server when it takes it's copies? Gareth
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now