Hi, If you have no special requirements, then a simple script that looks at Date Last Modified or Archive bit will work, since all you want to do is move it to another location. I'm not sure why you'd look at optical storage as a final backup - for several TB of data I think it'd be a nightmare to manage. Since you have Commvault, surely tape would be a better option?
I'm sorry I can't be of more help, but the requirements below are vague. If you have 1000 file servers, then obviously the solution is going to be different to if you have 10. If you have locations in hundreds of locations, the requirements will be different to if you have 1. If you have 10,000 users, then having files "disappear" and appear in some other location is not going to be feasible, both from user education PoV and a supportability PoV Your backup software might restore the file to its original location, or the backup location depending on when it was backed up: will have that an impact on quotas (if you have them), or EFS (if you use that), or a myriad of other things (your file access auditing system). Even if it's archive data, people might expect to be able to access it at 24 hours' notice, or 48 hours' notice, or similar. So RTO is still important: depending on what your IT department has committed to the business. Etc. Cheers Ken From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, 1 April 2012 5:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Archiving Solutions? Short term building up to a few Tb, long term goodness knows. RPO/RTO I take the view that it's archive data, so just being able to get it back is as far as a firm RPO/RTO requirement goes. Providing good redundant secondary storage is something I can easily cover, what I'm interested in is how to identify/get the data onto it, and whether people use tape, optical, something else as their full/final long term copy? I also think that something such as Enterprise Vault is overkill (we use Commvault for backup who do their own archiving product which I also think would be overkill), I'm also not convinced we need something that replaces files with stubs, just having a \\archive\<file:///\\archive\> UNC path would probably do the job at our level. Paul From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> Sent: 01 April 2012 10:41 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Archiving Solutions? How much data are you talking about? Where is it currently stored? What are your user requirements for getting access to this data? RPO/RTOs for the solution? Etc. You can go all the way up to something like Symantec Enterprise Vault. But the question is whether you need these features or not. From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> Sent: Sunday, 1 April 2012 5:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Archiving Solutions? I'm looking at how we archive data once it no longer needs to be on primary storage. What are people using that will do the basic job of identifying folders that have not changed in X period of time, and moving those folders to a second location on secondary storage? Once it's there, presumably it's not being backed up weekly along with your primary data, so how are you creating an offline "full and final copy" should the secondary storage fail please? Thanks, Paul ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ________________________________ MIRA Ltd Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 VAT Registration GB 100 1464 84 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. You should not copy, forward or otherwise disclose the content of the e-mail as this is prohibited. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
