CONSIDERATIONS

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CONSIDERATIONS

The Data Volume consists a "Unix/Linux FileSystem" or "Windows Letter Disk".
This area may be local or remote, since mounted on your the system 
(must be mounted).

The ExploreFS can extract control data from a root entry or folder entry and
sub-items (depends on what do you need -- see the extended options).

The process will explore recursivily the volume and create a report and sumary.

The report contains a list of entries and information about size, owner, 
timestamp status and entry identifier. The summary contains the number of 
processed data, number of erros, etc. The summary error report contains the
list of entries and the system message error.

*** IMPORTANT***

 No file's data will be written on the reports.

RESTRICTIONS

Before using this application, you should understand that certain  operating 
systems have limitations and/or restrictions on the size of the directory or 
file path. That some special characters have restrictions and when informed of
the volume's entries, it can be a challenge or the some restriction to explore
its structure.

For example, legacy operating systems may limit the maximum size to 1024 or
even 256 bytes and it will be necessary to use a current operating systems
as a way to explore volumes in this type of system or perform partial mappings
in the structure to ensure full exploitation of the database.

We identify restrictions on exploiting volumes on Microsoft Windows 2012 or below,
as a solution, a linux server with samba 4.0 or above was used to exploit the
windows fileserver 2012 -- linux works!!!

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