Send me off list the details of what you are attempting to accomplish.

On Wednesday, February 2, 2005 at 11:12:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated:

> But this is for a hard drive partition which a hundred or so top level
> folders and a total of like around 5000 folders of various levels and over
> 150,000 files in the various folders.

> John Tolmachoff
> Engineer/Consultant/Owner
> eServices For You

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:IMail_Forum-
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Duane Hill
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 2:51 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] WAY OT: Archiving software
>>
>>   Kind of off topic response: I do mention e-mail :-) With some Perl
> experience this
>> could be
>>   done relatively easy. Perl has modules to traverse directory structures
> and search for
>> files.
>>   This coupled with a command line packing tool like WinRAR, single
> archives could be
>> readied to burn.
>> 
>>   I have all of our logs on all of our e-mail servers packed up and
> transferred to a
>> server to
>>   burn every day at a specific time. I have e-mail server logs dating back
> as far as
>> 1999 archived.
>> 
>> On Wednesday, February 2, 2005 at 10:22:11 PM,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> confabulated:
>> 
>> > This has nothing to do with e-mail. Replies can be sent off list.
>> 
>> > I have a client that has about 200 gigs of files for clients. They are a
>> > printing shop and need to retain the files that they worked on or
> created as
>> > some customers may only come in once every couple of years.
>> 
>> > Problem is that takes up a lot of hard drive space. I have recommended
> that
>> > they burn old files onto CD or DVD, but they can not just take this
> folder
>> > or that folder as there is mostly a mix of new and old.
>> 
>> > Does any one know of software that can scan for old files, burn those
> onto
>> > CD or DVD keeping the folder structure so they can find it, and then
> produce
>> > an index of where the files are?
>> 
>> > John Tolmachoff
>> > Engineer/Consultant/Owner
>> > eServices For You
>> 

-----

Duane Hill
Sr E-Mail Administrator
http://www.yournetplus.com


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