				RARELY ASKED QUESTIONS
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I should have named this section as FAQ - Frequently asked questions..as i rarely receive   mail from u guyz..it's RAQ ;-)

Rather than Q&A - Question and Answer part ...this will be like conversion between you and me. :-)


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==>U: what's this tool?
==>Me:It's a file recovery tool...but you can't recover files deleted before installtion of   	giis.so It's not file recovery tool...
   It's not a backup tool.- Since it backup only meta data and not file content.
   Though giis will fetch first or latest version of deleted file- clearly it can't be 
   CVS or VSS like tool.
   then what is giis....
   * undelete tool...but i prefer 	
   * ext3 file insurance tool ;-) 
	(It's suggested by a oss friend ;-)		 

==>U:so i can't recover a file which are deleted before installtion of giis?
==>Me:100% you can't with giis. but try other tool,like foremost.

==>U:no????Then what's giis for???
==>Me:It's as protection tool for ur system.Once giis installed any deleted files can be recovered.
==>U: How to install giis??
==>Me: See README file.
==>U: o.k fine. i successfully installed giis.To Check giis, i deleted a file from /root.
And chosen File Recovery option its displays ...

	 How do you want to recover files?
	 Press 0 : Get All User files 
	 Press 1 : Get Specific User files
	 Press 2 : force giis - giis dump
	 Press 3 : Get By File Format
	Enter Your Choice : 

what should i do now?

==>Me:checking giis???- i hope it will work -o.k here some more info.

  If you press 0[Get All User files]...giis will recover deleted files that 
belong to all users.
		-----------*-------------------*
  If you press 1[Get Specific User files]...giis will ask for user name to search.It will recover  only those files belong to user.With this,you can recover only the specified file.
		-----------*-------------------*
  If you press 2[force giis - giis dump]...giis will ask for file name to search.If the file is found it  will recover it.Here giis will again ask:
	 ->Get Lastest Version or First Version of Deleted File ??
        Press 0: Get Lastest Version
        Press 1: First Version
	Enter your choice :

	It's a search procedure.When if a file is modified 	it may have multiple copies.If 		multiple copies exists,then	
   If you choose 0 - it's will get the latest version of deleted file.-any newly appended data 	  will be available.
   If you choose 1 - It's gets the file content which are present in the file 
   during intallation of giis.	
   Thought for you : Readonly file will have only one copy of data. :-)
		-----------*-------------------*
	
  If you press 3[Get By File Format]...giis will ask for file type ..if you enter mp3.
  giis will try to recover all deleted mp3 files.
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==>U:ok.. i chosen 0 giis says :

	........ giis analyser : Begins ........
         Unable to Detect File Type - Found Data :
	/** /giis/file.c This file con
        ........Ends ........

	giis process Completed...
         Recovered files   : /giis/got_it
         Unrecovered files : /giis/unrecovered

What's this?

==>Me:giis analyser will try to detect the file type.If it didn't recognizes file type,
its displays sample data...in your case the sample data is :

	/** /giis/file.c This file con     

all giis recovered files will be found at /giis/got_it directory.
and unrecovered files will be at /giis/unrecovered.


==>U:o.k during recovery of some files,giis says :

		****** giis dump ******
                File name : File Data Modified/Overwritten
		File older Data   :
		-----------------
		some data1
		Current Disk Data :
		------------------
		some data2

		Do You wanna dump the Current data? Press 1:yes Press 0:No
		Enter :

what's this mean???

==>Me:Sometimes the file you want to recover may be overwritten or modified by some other content
   if so then giis will display this message, it will display older file data and it's current 	  disk data...and ask you whether to dump current disk data or not.

==>U:It's seems like a good idea.What's this 'Update Now' option ?
==>Me:Until giis v.4 ,newly created files are updated into giis system files 
   everytime you login.You can update giis system files using this option rather than at login time.From giis v4.1 newly created files are updated every 30 mintues.

==>U:how much space giis will occupy...and how long it will to install and update giis?
==>Me:It's purely dependent on system configuration and amount of data you have.
    Here is the result of test run i did on my linux experimental kid :-)

	System Configurations:	
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	CPU :Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
	RAM : 256MB
	
	HardDisk info:
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	/root : 187.0 MB
	/home : 717.6 MB
	 For these settings giis took,
	/giis :	691.5 KB  

		 giis Installation and Update Time  :
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		 giis installation took 01.20.04 mintues.(that's around 80 seconds)
		 giis update took 0.16.6 seconds.	
 
==>U:How  updates  are done?
==>Me:giis will try to find only new files which are created since last giis updation.
There will not be any repeatation of same entry again in giis system files. 

==>U:then what's that 'giis File Details'
==>Me:It's not intended for users.It will have giis system file details.
==>U:then why to have that option at all?
==>Me:???-may some advanced users or developer will be interested in it.
==>U:What's this "Quotes"?...what that has to do with tool?  
==>Me:...hmm....may be because of these quotes we have giis. ;-)

==>U:and option 5 says 'Uninstall'..so i can get rid of giis with it.am i right? :-)
==>Me:i know that's the one option every giis user will love to do 

==>U:bye..bye...i going to choose option 5.
==>Me:O.k bye...i hope you won't delete important files and  cry ;-)..take care of your files.

==>U :final question....what about license..its free or not?
==>Me:It's depends on U.Check out COPYING.
   
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