Refer to the following important notes and guidelines for understanding Recycle Bin configuration in QoreStor.
- Identify the Data Management Application (DMA) that you will be using to back up data. Refer to the QoreStor Interoperability Guide for a complete list of the supported DMAs for Recycle Bin.
- Depending on the backup size, deduplication and compression ratios, and Recycle Bin retention time, Recycle Bin occupies additional storage space. No additional QoreStor license is required for Recycle Bin space. Provision storage to use all of the license capacity.
- Recycle Bin retention time is a time period during which you can retrieve any of the deleted files. Shorter the retention time means less additional storage space required, but also less of a time window to detect an attack or accidental deletion and respond.
You can enable Recycle Bin on a container while adding a container or later by editing the properties of a container. For more information, see Creating a container and Editing container settings.
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NOTE: Recycle Bin supports NFS, CIFS, RDA, and OST containers. |
You can also change the retention time for a container, which affects files that are deleted from then onwards. The retention time does not include when QoreStor services are not running. You can set a retention time when you add a container or at a later time. A new retention time applies to the files that are deleted from the moment you set the new retention time.
Files in the Recycle Bin are permanently deleted after their retention time is over. This cleanup process happens automatically on a daily basis, and it cannot be forced or expedited. Once the files are deleted from Recycle Bin, they cannot be recovered.
If files are accidentally or maliciously deleted, you can restore them from Recycle Bin by identifying the time period during which the files were deleted, optionally viewing the list of files that were deleted during that period, and then initiating a restore from Recycle Bin. Once restore is complete, you can read the files from client systems or the backup software. Restore time is usually short, depending on the number of files being restored.
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NOTE: In the restore window, it is recommended to not expire any backups, as it could cause file deletes to fail during that time. Retrying them after restore operation would succeed. |
If backups were deleted from a backup application after restoring the files from Recycle Bin, some backup applications have to rescan the backup target or device to repopulate their catalog.
To restore files from Recycle Bin
- In the QoreStor GUI, click Container.
- Next to the name of the appropriate container, click the Details menu, and then click Recycle Bin.
- To receive a list of files that are in Recycle Bin, click Report. You can filter files based on their deletion times.
- To restore the files, click Restore.
- To restore all of the files, click Full restore.
- To restore files that were deleted during a specific time, click Date Range, and then select the start and end times.
For usage details on the container --recycle_bin command, see the Quest QoreStor Command Line Reference Guide.
