Neopath fits well as well. They can sit in front of the filers on the network an seemlessly migrate the data, and do extensive data collection around the data on the filesystems, which might be more what you are looking for. They are a netapp approved partner as well.

-Blake

On 7/30/06, Glenn Walker ggwalker@mindspring.com wrote:

Eyal is speaking of the IS1200 solution – we're looking at it also as a potential solution for just this problem.

Glenn

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From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Eyal Traitel Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 11:22 AM To: netster Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: Data Classification

Hi !

1. You can use "df -i" command to know how many inodes you have. This would

be higher than the number of files (since it'll represent directories as well) but would be a good estimate for the ceiling.

2. Look at Kazeon - NetApp resells them.

Eyal.

On 7/30/06, netster netster_cooper@yahoo.com wrote:

Hi! I have several NetApp filers with close to 25TBs of user data stored on them (Best guess is that there is some 50 million files, but we aren't sure as our backup software only backups the current data set, not the snapshots). We are looking to consolidate down the environment given the latest storage capacities and thought I would ask the community here what tools that they used to understand what data needed to be migrate, what data needed to be destroyed, and what the data costs in terms of per user and department? We have the costing for the storage down to a per $ fee per MB/GB.

Any thoughts? We have tried some freeware and shareware programs, but they require weeks, if not months of personnel time to make sense out of the data that they collect. We are looking for a packaged solution.

Thank you for your help.

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-- Yours, Eyal.