Hello,
I am forwarding this to the list because it is a very interesting feature
request (a big project too), and because it is very similar to the request
submitted by Ross Boylan. My question to Ross and Ray (and others), is: are
the two requests compatible? and if so, what would the wording be for a
single request?
Thanks ...
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Subject: Feature Request
Date: Thursday 24 November 2005 19:26
From: "Ray Pengelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Kern Sibbald'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Item : Archival of Data to Tape
Date: Nov. 24/2005
Origin: Ray Pengelly [ray at biomed dot queensu dot ca
Status:
What: The ability to archive data to storage based on certain parameters
such as age, size, or location. Once the data has been written to storage
and logged it is then pruned from the originating filesystem.
Why: This would allow fully automatic storage management which becomes
useful for large datastores. It would also allow for auto-staging from one
media type to another.
Example 1) Medical imaging needs to store large amounts of data. They decide
to keep data on their servers for 6 months and then put it away for long
term storage. The server then finds all files older than 6 months writes
them to tape. The files are then removed from the server.
Example 2) All data that hasn't been accessed in 2 months could be moved
from high-cost, fibre-channel disk storage to a low-cost large-capacity SATA
disk storage pool which doesn't have as quick of access time. Then after
another 6 months (or possibly as one storage pool gets full) data is
migrated to Tape.
Ray Pengelly
Computer Systems Administrator
CIHR Group In Sensory-Motor Integration
Queen's University
613-533-6000 x74139
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"Wouldn't it be great if life were like windows where you could hit
ctrl-alt-delete and start over when things go wrong?" - Anonymous
"How about life being like Unix where they don't mess up in the first place"
- Ray
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Best regards,
Kern
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