On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 12:40:12 -0600 Stewart, John wrote:

We've got about a half terabyte of data on our F740 in our main office. The folks over in our remote office also access this via a T1. The remote guys would like to be able to do quicker searches through much of this data, probably just by filename.

Is there a native NetApp search tool? Any other recommendations?

One of the engineers has asked I just do a cron job every night of a complete file listing into a file... but I think this is something that might not even run overnight, we've got so many files.

I don't know any Netapp product for server side searches. The idea of your engineer might be the best one. Run a 'find' from while to while and safe the result to a database/plain file which can be accessd via a (e.g.) web page. You might want to check for access violations - maybe not everybody should see everyones files. If your users just mount their own home directories local search tools like Google's 'desktop search' or Apple's 'spotlight' will do the job.

I like the gnu updatedb to build a database which is searchable via the gnu locate program.

These are part of the "findutils" package:

http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/findutils.html

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From: "Stewart, John" johns@artesyncp.com To: "'toasters@mathworks.com'" toasters@mathworks.com Subject: NetApp searches? Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 12:40:12 -0600

We've got about a half terabyte of data on our F740 in our main office. The folks over in our remote office also access this via a T1. The remote guys would like to be able to do quicker searches through much of this data, probably just by filename.

Is there a native NetApp search tool? Any other recommendations?

One of the engineers has asked I just do a cron job every night of a complete file listing into a file... but I think this is something that might not even run overnight, we've got so many files.

thanks

johnS