Where is Anchor folder stored?

Yeah, fellows, Acadia might be on the verge of breaking down and using the Anchor feature. Those of you who have used it, where in the $ISR folder is the Anchor folder created and stored? Thank you.

Acadia

 

I wished, I knew. I have another question : "Where are the settings of FDISR stored ?"

 

Peter,
Anchored folders must be stored somewhere, because FDISR has to know which folders were anchored by the user.

 

Acadia

 

So are the anchored files only kept in one Snapshot? If so, what happens if you delete that Snapshot?

Acadia

 

If you click on Tools / Data Anchoring you get a list of anchored folders and files.
Your question most probably refers to that list. Where is that list stored ? I don't know where, but I'm 100% sure that this list is stored somewhere.

That list is kept forever (unless you change it), no matter what you do with your snapshots.
FDISR needs that list to do the anchoring in each snapshot.

 

How come that settings retain when you restore to a different snapshot with a different registry?

It has been a while for me, but I remember a file or folder in the $ISR structure that contains information of which data has to be anchored.

 

There is a file C:\$ISR\0\$ANCHOR that changes size when you add anchored folders. I would venture a guess that the file has the list of anchored locations.

As Peter said, it doesn't seem that the anchored data is stored anywhere in the $ISR folder. I created a folder called C:\Anchor, put a few test files in it, and anchored the folder. Down in the $ISR folder in the actual snapshot folders there is now an Anchor folder for each snapshot, but there are no files in the snapshot folders.

This is also discussed in the manual and help files (look under concepts in the online help) and it even has a picture.

C

 

It seems to me that you can NOT anchor any folder that begins with "C:\$ISR".
I tried a few folders and files, FDISR puts them in the anchor list, but when you press the "Finish" button FDISR refuses to accept it and you have to remove it first. So that doesn't work.

 

That makes sense... especially since the C:\$ISR folder is essentially anchored anyway. Not sure why you would want to anchor anything under it anyway.

C

 

Compare it with your experiments, using xyplorer and that fsutil (?).
You are not the only one trying things out and ignoring Peter's warnings.

 

So, you are in snapshot SA and change some FD-ISR settings. Then you switch to snapshot SB and there you find the original settings?
I invite you to give this a try and report us the results, Peter.

 

Peter, you are not wrong, maybe a little bit too fast.
I have noticed that when I install fresh in an empty snapshot the FD-ISR settings retain.
I think the FD-ISR settings are stored somewhere in C:\$ISR

So, is the system time adjusted when you change to a different snapshot?
I just figured that this happens to me, I need to update all snapshots.