USB out of space / Event log

[Guest]

Hello,

When copying to a USB drive and the USB runs out of space, does anyone know
if windows logs an event in event log?

Some data has been lost on the a server and we are trying to piece together
what has happened. This is what we THINK may have happened.

We have a customer who decided to 'Move' some folders from the server onto
her memory pen (She should have copy/paste but anyway). The server has one
shared folder called data (5Gb) which consists of all company files and gets
backed up. The folder data was then moved to the memory pen (2gb space) using
a users machine and then due to the size of the pen it hit it's limit and
only some data was moved (about 2gb) and the rest was left on the server
(3gb). The data is then deleted from the pen.

This would explain that about 1.9/2 Gb of data is lost from the data folder
on the server. To confirm our theory, I was wondering if windows xp logs an
event when a USB hits it's size limit or if a move was incomplete.

Any help would be appreciated.

Many thanks,

Luke

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Hello,

When copying to a USB drive and the USB runs out of space, does
anyone know if windows logs an event in event log?

Some data has been lost on the a server and we are trying to piece
together what has happened. This is what we THINK may have happened.

We have a customer who decided to 'Move' some folders from the server
onto her memory pen (She should have copy/paste but anyway). The
server has one shared folder called data (5Gb) which consists of all
company files and gets backed up. The folder data was then moved to
the memory pen (2gb space) using a users machine and then due to the
size of the pen it hit it's limit and only some data was moved (about
2gb) and the rest was left on the server (3gb). The data is then
deleted from the pen.

This would explain that about 1.9/2 Gb of data is lost from the data
folder on the server. To confirm our theory, I was wondering if
windows xp logs an event when a USB hits it's size limit or if a move
was incomplete.

Any help would be appreciated.

Many thanks,

Luke

I don't believe this will be logged, but you might try a test. You will
likely see a popup message when your destination drive is out of space.

If you've got W2003 with VSS enabled, and this data was on there, you may
not even need to go back to tape - volume shadow copy services saves a lot
of work.

 

[Guest]

Lanwench,

The server is an old win 2000 server. It primary use is as a file server. I
thought it was a long shot. I might do some tests and see.

Thanks for your time though

Luke

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Lanwench,

The server is an old win 2000 server. It primary use is as a file
server. I thought it was a long shot. I might do some tests and see.

Thanks for your time though

Luke

No prob. Sounds like some training is in order, eh?

 

[Guest]

Lanwench,

I did some tests and as predicted I got a 'file to big please add more
space' message when I tried to copy some files to my USB drive. Unfortunatly,
no error logged in event veiwer.

The user who did this was a temp for the day and decided to tidy the data.
It has caused a few headaches!

Thanks for your help!

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Lanwench,

I did some tests and as predicted I got a 'file to big please add more
space' message when I tried to copy some files to my USB drive.
Unfortunatly, no error logged in event veiwer.



The user who did this was a temp for the day and decided to tidy the
data. It has caused a few headaches!

Youch - I can imagine. I'd be quite annoyed with that temp.