I'm thinking I'm looking at a specific instance of a generic problem for which tools probably exist:
in our efforts to shrink backup expenses until we bleed, I'm needing to keep track of disk usage metadata and metrics and correlate it with the ongoing flow of statistics. I'm asked questions like: What disk space has been allocated to which users? What is the rate of growth by type of use? Which disks have static data (which would show up as low incremental backup volume)? At the 20,000 foot view, we have a spreadsheet listing who owns what, when it was created, when it expires, and other such metadata. At the ground view, we have system tools and assorted backup reports. We're a very small shop but our storage use is getting to the point where it's just a wee bit too painful to try to keep track of these things hand anymore. We can't pay megabucks for enterprise-scale tools but considering what we spend in backup we could spend a little to save more. Primary file servers are solaris 10 running zfs; other servers are solaris, linux and windows; we do NOT control the backup server but the folks who do are great about running reports *if* I know what to ask for. Any thoughts? Before I start trying to invent this from scratch? -- Unix Systems Administrator Harvard Graduate School of Design _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
