Well, I assume that even looking at a subset, it may be obvious that for something like user data, for example, that some large percentage of it may be greater than several years old and not accessed in the last 3 years (or whatever your threshold may be).
We were pretty easily able to take a statistically valid sample of our data and extrapolate out for a good amount if it, even if we didn't account for the overall total. -sc > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 9:53 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Archive data > > Uh, > > If you don't know how much storage there is, how do you know that any of it > needs to be archived? > > Just asking... > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 06:49, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: > > Windows servers for file/print, and a *lot* of IBM SAN storage (about 4 > servers racks full - dunno how much storage it is since SE manages it), which > is ex$pen$ive to expand and far more than we need to spend to keep users > old crap. Functionally a 2TB RAID1 USB would be sufficient. I'm thinking $1000 > or less of NAS with a ROBOCOPY job (pulling from six different servers or so) > should be more than sufficient. > > > > I have submitted a proposal, we'll see if it flies. > > > > Dave > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 6:19 PM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: Re: Archive data > > > > What is your current system? Hardware and OS? > > > > Is it using SCSI, SATA, SAS, PATA? Is it hardware RAID? Does it hot swap? > > > > Frankly, if your hardware hot swaps, and it's SATA or SAS, it might be > > cheaper and more efficient to swap out disks one at a time, let the > > array rebuild and then expand your space. Once you've replaced the > > drives, Win2k3+ should recognize the new (unpartitioned) space, and > > allow you to expand the current partition to fill it. > > > > As pointed out, if they can't say for sure that they don't need it, > > then they probably *do* need it. > > > > Kurt > > > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 13:09, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Wow - nobody? > >> > >> > >> > >> From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] > >> Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 8:18 AM > >> To: NT System Admin Issues > >> Subject: Archive data > >> > >> > >> > >> Do any of you guys have an automated method for migrating old, unused > >> user data off your primary servers? I’m talking about data users > >> don’t want to have deleted, but they maintain for “I might need it > someday” purposes. > >> > >> > >> > >> To accommodate this I would think a cheap RAID1 NAS should be > >> sufficient, there is no need for high-speed, multiple user access. > >> I’m thinking it would be a very cheap way to pull a TB or so off our SAN…. > >> > >> David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER > >> NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION > >> (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
