Figured I would chime in.. WE use a product called NTP software. It does a great job of doing profiles, blocking file types, etc. It came with a product called storage M & A. It would show dupliate files, age, MP3, what ever. Its not cheap, but would get you what you are looking for. It runs via fpolicy.. Again, I can go into some detail if you would like to take this offline. You can also look at this.. I have not ran it against the filers, but you can try..

http://sourceforge.net/projects/windirstat/

Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 11:03:28 -0800 From: rvandolson@esri.com To: toasters@teaparty.net Subject: File Access / Size Usage Reports

We have several large CIFS shares managed by internal departments. I'd like to be able to get reports based on which directories contain the most data / files (inodes) and also which files aren't being accessed very frequently and as such are candidates for archival / deletion.

We've historically used CommVault's SRM for the latter, but the Backup team is telling me it won't work on CIFS shares as it needs an agent.

Essentially looking for something like JdiskReport plus file access reporting.

Could probably run tools direct from OS's accessing the shares (and that may be the right thing to do). Am wondering what all of you use out there?

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Sorry for the delay in responding, been busy with other stuff.

Ray> We have several large CIFS shares managed by internal Ray> departments. I'd like to be able to get reports based on which Ray> directories contain the most data / files (inodes) and also which Ray> files aren't being accessed very frequently and as such are Ray> candidates for archival / deletion.

While we have a mostly NFS site, I use a tool called 'philesight' to trawl through my filers and build up DBs of disk usage on a per-directory basis. Makes nice pretty disk usage maps which you can drill down into via a web interface. I'd be happy to share my local version if you like.

Now it is Ruby based, and I'm purely a Unix guy, so I haven't a clue how it would work on CIFS volumes, unless you can also view them from a Unix box. Which might work, might not.

It's also based on the data collectors running once a week (I have big volumes of around 10tb in size, some with 30+ million files, so it takes a while to run) and the CGI interface just uses which ever the current DB is.

The tool could be modified for access reporting too I guess, but that's not something I've been all that interested it.

Ray> Essentially looking for something like JdiskReport plus file access Ray> reporting.

Ray> Could probably run tools direct from OS's accessing the shares (and Ray> that may be the right thing to do). Am wondering what all of you use Ray> out there?

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