Macro to find differences?

dylskee · 06-16-12, 09:24 PM

I have been noticing a problem at work lately and I was wondering if someone could help me out here? I'm a CNC Machinist and I use Cad/Cam software to create programs for the machines in a text format. We have a server that stores all of our programs and we have a **** ton of programs. Lately I've been noticing programs disappearing, I create manual backups myself about twice a week and when I look at the properties I can see that programs are being deleted. My question is, can I run a program to compare the server folder to my backup folder and have it tell me what's missing? Our programs are saved in a number format (01234) so I would just be looking for what is missing from my server folder?

df0xyd · 06-16-12, 09:53 PM

Who doesn't love the power of Unix tools!?

Find + Diff

Oh... and Google... The first link usually works...

dylskee · 06-16-12, 09:56 PM

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Originally Posted by df0xyd

Who doesn't love the power of Unix tools!?

Find + Diff

Oh... and Google... The first link usually works...

Thank you.....

df0xyd · 06-16-12, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by dylskee

Thank you.....

Sure sure!

(It may not be the correct emoticon for this situation.. but.. close enough!)

dylskee · 06-16-12, 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by df0xyd

Sure sure!

(It may not be the correct emoticon for this situation.. but.. close enough!)

LOL!
I apologize for my ignorance but can this be used in a windows environment?

thideras · 06-16-12, 10:16 PM

Since those are Linux commands, no.

I would work towards figuring out what/who is deleting them. Are these files on a share?

dylskee · 06-16-12, 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by thideras

Since those are Linux commands, no.

I would work towards figuring out what/who is deleting them. Are these files on a share?

Yes they are and we have about 10 work stations that have access to this folder so it's pretty hard to pin point what's going on. I would just like to monitor the folders and see what files are being removed and from what folders. We have about 20 different cnc folders based on our machines and it varies from day to day on what's being deleted.

thideras · 06-17-12, 06:39 AM

A quick and dirty solution would be to remove their ability to delete files. I haven't looked, but I'm fairly sure you could get logging software for the smb shares. Wait for a file to get deleted and you'd have which user (if you are using a domain) and the computer it was delete from.

Using the tools mentioned earlier isn't going to solve your problem. It will just make it more complicated and place a bandaid over it.

dropadrop · 06-17-12, 04:59 PM

You'd think that just setting logging on debug or verbose would show delete commands?

06-16-12, 09:24 PM	Thread Starter #1
dylskee Member Join Date: Mar 2005	Macro to find differences? I have been noticing a problem at work lately and I was wondering if someone could help me out here? I'm a CNC Machinist and I use Cad/Cam software to create programs for the machines in a text format. We have a server that stores all of our programs and we have a **** ton of programs. Lately I've been noticing programs disappearing, I create manual backups myself about twice a week and when I look at the properties I can see that programs are being deleted. My question is, can I run a program to compare the server folder to my backup folder and have it tell me what's missing? Our programs are saved in a number format (01234) so I would just be looking for what is missing from my server folder? __________________ i7 920 Classified X58 760 eVGA GTX 680 4GB Gentle Typhoon 1850s 12GB 6x2GB Corsair Dominator 1600 120GB OCZ Vertex II SSD - 1TB External HDD 850W CoolerMaster RS-850-EMBA PSU LG 32LD450 32" Dell 2209WA 22" Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit Heatware 124-0-0 Last edited by thideras; 06-16-12 at 09:57 PM. Reason: Language
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thideras Banned Neckbeard Moderator Premium Member #3 Join Date: May 2006 Location: South Dakota	Since those are Linux commands, no. I would work towards figuring out what/who is deleting them. Are these files on a share? __________________ Desktop: Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H \| 3570k 4.6 GHz \| 32 GB GSkill Ares \| GTX 570 \| 180 GB Intel & 2 TB total \| Arch Linux and Windows 7 Main server: 37 TB raw disk \| 2x Opteron 6134 \| Asus KGPE-D16 \| 48 GB RAM \| LSI 8708EM2 \| CentOS 6.2 VM Server 1: Dell R510 \| 2x E5645 \| 128 GB RAM \| 4x 300 GB Velociraptor \| Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) VM Server 2: Dell R710 \| 2x E5645 \| 288 GB RAM \| 8x 300 GB Velociraptor \| Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) "That's not overkill, or a lot. That's just thiderastic." -txus.palacios Current projects: Rackmount Overkill (New) \| 30/45 hard drive server Articles: Rack Mounting 101 \| Dell Perc 5/i Throughput Benchmarks Past projects: Software RAID \| The Dragon Case My Website *Want to talk directly to all* the moderators at once? Call the Mod Hotline!**
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06-17-12, 06:39 AM	#8
thideras Banned Neckbeard Moderator Premium Member #3 Join Date: May 2006 Location: South Dakota	A quick and dirty solution would be to remove their ability to delete files. I haven't looked, but I'm fairly sure you could get logging software for the smb shares. Wait for a file to get deleted and you'd have which user (if you are using a domain) and the computer it was delete from. Using the tools mentioned earlier isn't going to solve your problem. It will just make it more complicated and place a bandaid over it. __________________ Desktop: Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H \| 3570k 4.6 GHz \| 32 GB GSkill Ares \| GTX 570 \| 180 GB Intel & 2 TB total \| Arch Linux and Windows 7 Main server: 37 TB raw disk \| 2x Opteron 6134 \| Asus KGPE-D16 \| 48 GB RAM \| LSI 8708EM2 \| CentOS 6.2 VM Server 1: Dell R510 \| 2x E5645 \| 128 GB RAM \| 4x 300 GB Velociraptor \| Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) VM Server 2: Dell R710 \| 2x E5645 \| 288 GB RAM \| 8x 300 GB Velociraptor \| Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) "That's not overkill, or a lot. That's just thiderastic." -txus.palacios Current projects: Rackmount Overkill (New) \| 30/45 hard drive server Articles: Rack Mounting 101 \| Dell Perc 5/i Throughput Benchmarks Past projects: Software RAID \| The Dragon Case My Website *Want to talk directly to all* the moderators at once? Call the Mod Hotline!**
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06-17-12, 04:59 PM	#9
dropadrop Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Finland	You'd think that just setting logging on debug or verbose would show delete commands?
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