Wow... you had 32 gigs? When I started here (almost 12 years ago), we had maybe 4 Gigs of raw storage on our ONE NT4 HP Netserver E30, and MAYBE 5 gigs of raw storage on our RS6000.
Now, we have many, many Terabytes of data (I'm not the storage admin, so I can't even tell you how much right now for sure), de-duped at the source and backed up to a remote EMC Avamar 8Tb Array... Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA [email protected] www.eaglemds.com -----Original Message----- From: Holstrom, Don [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 12:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: document sprawl Me too. When I arrived here eight years ago, we had 32 gigs of data. Now we have over 2 TBs... Just buy larger servers... -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Wimberly [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 12:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: document sprawl I have attempted to tackle this issue before, I like to call it "encourage spring cleaning!" but my words always seem to fall on deaf ears. Lately every time I bring it up we end up buying more hard drives for the server! I give up. Maybe I'm just too cheap? On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Jeff Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > In regards to email, we were able to establish a retention policy that > messages in the Inbox, Sent Items, and Deleted Items folders are all > deleted after 90 days. Exchange mailbox manager allowed to do that > weekly. Don't manage other folders. Not perfect, but it helped. > > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Don Guyer <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> I'd be interested in a solution to this. Been fighting it for years >> to no avail, other than running a "data inventory" program (such as >> TreeSize) and doing a manual compare. >> >> >> >> Don't forget all of the email attachments saved along with the >> original email. >> >> >> >> J >> >> >> >> Don Guyer >> >> Systems Engineer - Information Services >> >> Prudential, Fox & Roach/Trident Group >> >> 431 W. Lancaster Avenue >> >> Devon, PA 19333 >> >> Direct: (610) 993-3299 >> >> Fax: (610) 650-5306 >> >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> From: S Powell [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 11:17 AM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: document sprawl >> >> >> >> Hello Everybody </Dr. Nick> >> >> >> >> I'd like to pick your brains about how you deal with document sprawl, >> I was reading in another thread about how users would use their >> "Recycle Bin" as their archive. <shudder> >> >> we have users that will keep tens of copies of the same document in >> various locations around their "My Documents"; as well as in tens of >> locations within our "shared" folders on the network ... >> >> >> >> User education only goes so far when it comes to "please don't do >> that" as they nod and then keep doing it. >> >> I think we've moved beyond being nice and we've found ourselves >> >> mired in needing a sledgehammer. I'd just like to wrap it in a bit >> of velvet. >> >> >> >> Thoughts, Policies, procedures etc, would be helpful in this. >> >> >> >> TIA >> >> >> >> ./s >> Google.com Learn it. Live it. 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