Okay, early this year I setup a samba server for a small non profit, they are
running XP on the desktop and I have things setup so that all their data and
outlook info is stored on the server. We do daily backups to tape, this works
great. A couple of months ago, someone had created an important file and
deleted it on the same day, so it wasn't backed up, at that point I setup
the
samba vfs recycle bin. I had the little talk with the staff about the
necessity of regularly checking and cleaning the recycling bin out. One staff
member wanted to have it done automatically every 2 weeks, the rest did not
want it done automatically. So we left it at that. Now the backup tapes
(DDS4 using bacula) are getting full and stopping. I had a look around and
the data is up to 30gb, It was under 15gb at the beginning of the year.
Poking around I find one users' deleted items folder at 11gb!!!
<sigh>, the
total for the others user's brings recycled items up to 15 of the 30gb in
use
:-(
So, what do folks recommend to handle this automatically that gives some kind
of flexibility. Essentially for the folks who want to manage it themselves
and have shown they can handle that responsibility, I'd like them to be able
to do this, for the folks with a more cavalier attitude, I'd like to set
limits on a per user basis and be able to change those limits on the fly if
necessary. Next I also want the deleted items folder to automatically recylce
in a FIFO manner for the people with limited/controlled storage space. If
this can all be controlled through a gui tool like webmin that can be handled
by a non-technical office administrator, so much the better.
Suggestions????
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