How did you do your sampling? I'm thinking that you've either a) turned instantiated nftsdisablelastaccessupdate in which case you don't know or b) you've disturbed the last access time, in which case you've tainted the sample data, at least, and don't really know about the rest of it.
But aside from that, if it's work product (so as to exclude mp3s, etc.), and there isn't a data retention policy, why not just leave it on primary storage, assuming that there is enough room to do so? Kurt On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 06:56, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
