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A file server is a computer attached to a network that has the primary purpose of providing a location for shared disk access, i.e. shared storage of computer files (such as documents, sound files, photographs, movies, images, databases, etc.) that can be accessed by the clients that are attached to the same computer network.

The term server highlights the role of the machine in the client–server scheme, where the clients are the endpoints using the storage. A file server is not intended to perform computational tasks, and does not run programs on behalf of its clients. It is designed primarily to enable the storage and retrieval of data while the computation is carried out by the workstations.

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Recommend openSolaris file server hardware

On the SUN communityONE video they show a demo of openSolaris running on pretty beefy hardware, and the test I did in a VM (virtualbox) was definitely a hog resource-wise. My questions are regarding the CPU and RAM "requirements" of a simple…
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Is there a way to uniquely identify a directory on a Windows fileserver even after it has been renamed?

I'm using PowerShell scripts to manage the permissions on our fileservers. In general this works pretty well but sometimes directories are renamed. This does of course not affect the permissions but the script is refering to a database where the…
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Windws Server 2012 R2 Event Log / Audit deleted files / Only last minutes visible

My goal: I want to find out who deletes files on a network share. Users are sometimes complaining that a file is missing and as usual the others are to blame. I have file auditing enabled for this network shares. If I go to the event viewer to have…
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Choosing a File server

We are a small team of software developers - 7 programmers. We need to set up an inexpensive file server in our office. It's main purpose will be to run our Source Control System (VSS). Any recommendations as to what hardware to choose and what…
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how does AWS S3 bucket Redundant storage works with filepicker/filestack

I am using Filestack https://www.filestack.com/ as fileserver and Amazon S3 as filestorage as complete storage solution for my clients. Filestack offers CDN (Content Delivery Network) which serves file from nearest POP. Also i have chosen Redundant…
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For *nix server/Windows clients, what are the pros and cons of modern NFS v. Samba/SMB?

As the question says. There's a lot of threads around on NFS vs. Samba/SMB, but a lot of them are outdated or refer to old security models, or just give a one-line "use SMB with Windows". Both modern Windows clients and modern *nix file servers can…
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Replace FileServer with DROBO

We have a Linux FC4 (old!) running with two mirrored sata drives (200gb each). This old setup has been working for years with Samba. The server is an IBM Netfinity that in my opinion, it uses too much power. Since it only does Fileserving, we'd like…
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Single host CSV

I have a single physical server with directly attached SAS storage that I run Hyper-V on and within it all of the machines on my lab (AD, Exchange, SQL, SCCM, SCOM, File Servers, etc). I am trying to create a guest file server cluster with two…
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How do I set up home folders for users automatically without roaming profiles?

I have a Windows Server 2012 VM running as my domain controller, and another Server 2012 VM instance that is my file server. On my NAS, I used to be able to create a user, and the NAS would automatically make a home folder for them along with the…
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Windows Server: Impact of high count of ACL entries on overall performance

I have been searching on this and just can't find enough information on the topic. We are trying to develop a custom folder / permission tool. The clients needs are quiet complicated as there will be 20.000 folders to manage (to begin with) where…
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Achieving File Server Redundancy

We are in the process of moving all servers (or virtualising physicals) into a central datacenter connected via MPLS. Currently we are fully redundant on most aspects - RDS Farms, SQL Clusters, multiple DCs, hardware failover for firewalls etc. The…
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How do I restore 1/2 of all files in a VSS image? aka Previous Version in bulk?

Suppose I have many files that were virus infected in bulk. It isn't the entire drive, but 1/2 of it. I don't want to right click each folder and restore a previous version. Is there a way to do Previous Version in bulk, or similar? I found some…
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Looking for recommendations on how to evaluate replacement of on-premise server with new server or go to cloud

My business has about 15 people in a single location. We've lived forever off a local Windows Server for file sharing (about 800 GB) and access to our accounting system, which is also file system based (meaning it isn't client-server, rather you…
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Replacing a fileserver within a domain

We're upgrading our fileserver running on Windows 2008 R2 Standard, and it's part of a Windows 2008 Domain. We would like to migrate the files over retaining all the permission and later reuse the same hostname, it's essentially a swap of hardware…
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Should I use ec2 as a file server?

I need to be able to share user uploaded content across multiple EC2 application servers. I have looked at rsync, mounted NFS, and S3 as potential options of being able to share this data in almost real-time. The uploaded and downloaded user files…
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