I had a customer who had excellent luck doing this operation from a Windows 2000 PC. What they did was have one of their software engineers create a simple Visual Basic application that used the Windows 2000 search facility to scan for files older than some date, and then mark them for archive. The next time they backed up, they moved the files off the filer with this utility and onto tape. They even made it so that they could restore in the same way. It was simple, but worked perfectly with very little overhead. Kind of like a filer!
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My only problem was that this customer went out of business before I got a chance to get a copy of this utility. Perhaps something work considering. It shouldn't be a big deal to do in VB. You could of course do it in Unix as well. While not HSM, execution of the concept does deliver the functionality most people are after.
Effrem Norwood Network Appliance Systems Engineer Working "From Home"
Hello everyone!
We are considering implementing an F840 with around 4TB into a mixed UNIX and Win2K environment. My question to this much respected community is can we implement an HSM solution like say Veritas Storage Replicator to extract stale files and put them out to tape with a Netapp? I have been told know but am hoping yes.
Thanks in advance
Steve Roche sroche@datalink.com