NetWare SALVAGE Utility
One of NetWares most useful utilities is the Salvage utility, which is kind of a
trade secret. One day a user will delete a couple of files or a complete
directory accidentally, of course, and it will be the job of the LAN
administrator to save the day because the files were the company's financial
statements and they are due in a meeting yesterday. The NetWare 3.12 and 4.X
SALVAGE utility is the extremely useful and sophisticated tool to recover these
files.
NetWare retains deleted files in the volume were the files originally resided.
There they continue to pile up until the deleted files completely saturate this
volume. When the volume becomes full with these images of the deleted files,
the system begins purging, starting with the files that have been deleted for
the longest period of time. The only exception to this, is files or directories
that have been tagged with the purge attribute. As you can imagine these hidden
deleted files can quickly......
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