No (or few) of those - mainly MS Office files including some sizeable MS Access DB's.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 2:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Archive data That is indeed a fair amount. I hope none of that is full or partial backups of Windows or Program Files, or similar. Kurt On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 13:56, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: > Because I get notified of "low disk space" alerts and if I do a scan of files > modified before 12/31/2006 the scan takes seven or eight hours and returns > over 20,000 files. I can do this on any number of servers/file systems and > get similar results. > > I also know of several people who make weekly backups of various data and > they stick 'em on the network so they're backed up to tape. They have never > been accessed once created, but they need 'em "just in case". > > Dave > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 6:53 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/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
