Purging Deleted Files - Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 System Administration Manual

You can view a list of deleted files in a directory and recover files by using Novell Remote Manager
for NetWare. For more information on salvaging files, see the
NetWare Administration Guide. Recovered files contain information about who deleted the files and
when they were deleted.
Deleted files are saved until the server's purge delay time elapses, the administrator manually purges
them, or the NetWare server runs out of disk allocation blocks on the volume.

4.2.3 Purging Deleted Files

Salvageable files are usually stored in the directory they were deleted from. If a directory is deleted,
NetWare moves the salvageable files from the deleted directory to the deleted.sav directory.
When the NetWare server runs out of blocks, it purges deleted files. It deletes the files in the order
that they were deleted (first in, first out) in any of the salvageable areas. Purged files cannot be
salvaged.
To purge files and directories as they are deleted, use one of these methods:
Use the set command at the NetWare server console to disable the salvageable file feature.
By default, the Immediate Purge of Deleted Files parameter is set to Off. By default, files are
salvaged when they are deleted instead of being purged immediately.
To purge files as they are deleted, set the parameter named Immediate Purge of Deleted Files to
On. This increases performance, but at the cost of losing the salvageable file feature. For
instructions, see "SET" in the
Set the Purge attribute for individual files and directories.
If a file is flagged with the Purge attribute, the file is purged when it is deleted.
If a directory is flagged with the Purge attribute, NetWare purges all files in that directory when
the directory is deleted. Purged files and directories cannot be recovered.
Use Novell Remote Manager for NetWare to manually purge individual files and directories.
For instructions, see the
OES 2: Utilities Reference.
OES 2: Novell Remote Manager for NetWare Administration
OES 2: Novell Remote Manager for
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