kali_fornication5d ago

this command saves lives

https://lemmy.world/post/44291275

Show threadmossberg5905d ago
Real sys admins know this pain (rm suffers no fools) and accept the consequences of recovering from backups as pennance. No backups? Then you aren’t really a sys admin then, are you?
Show threadAspieEgg5d ago
Once I had to restore an entire organization from shadow copies because the IT director didn’t believe in off-site backups or using endpoint protection. The whole network got a ransomware that included the backups, but did not include the shadow copies on the main file server.
Show threadstoly
Are shadow copies like snapshots?
Mar 15 at 4:09pmWeb
Show threadPika5d ago

Yes, they are essentially file snapshots. Shadow copies in a Microsoft environment at least are basically file history without using file history. So when you modify a file when it’s enabled, it makes a copy of the last version of the file.

But since it’s not meant to be a actual backup solution, it’s meant to be on a file-by-file basis. I think that means they had to go through and manual restore n a file by file basis

Show threadAspieEgg5d ago
If I remember correctly, we were able to restore folders from the shadow copies. I certainly didn’t go file by file. I might have used a tool to do it. But as you pointed out, it’s not a proper backup so we had to do quite a bit of reconciliation to make sure we restored everything and document anything we couldn’t restore.
Show threadstoly5d ago
That sounds unpleasant. I’ve been through similar myself.
Show threadstoly5d ago
So it was long, manual, and painful. That sounds horrid.
Show threadAspieEgg5d ago

Yeah, shadow copies on Windows servers are snapshots of files. They allow users to see previous versions of a file.

It’s not really intended as a backup solution on its own, but some backup software does use the volume shadow copy service (VSS) to perform backups on Windows servers.

I was basically restoring files from this prompt in Windows.

Show threadstoly5d ago
Thanx