Provide a method to recovery directory changes if Directory Monitor service goes down
Thisi is only an idea of a newbee:
what if server where DirectoryMonitor is running as a service goes down or the Directory Monitor Service itself goes down while monitoring a network folder on another server ? If I have understood how DM is working, now when Directory service starts again it looses all the changes in that network folder done when DM was down.
I ask this because in my company there are important documents to monitor and my boss should be feel confident that he will never lose any changes happening in the directory of those important documents.
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Antonio Fatati
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This feature (called “snapshots”) has been available for some time already. In the main directory configuration form, simply enable snapshots by selecting the option to “Try determine changes while directory was offline using snapshots every”.
This applies to whether a network share goes down or even if the software was not running. When starting up, the directory will be compared against a previously taken snapshot to determine the changes while the monitor was not able to access it.
This is of course not foolproof since files could be added then deleted when offline and there is no way Directory Monitor would know the file was even there. The service is very resilient and has automatic restart strategies if it crashes so it’s unlikely to be down for very long.