Re: How do you archive old files from SBS?

One of the hard parts of doing this is determining what should be moved to
archive. If you happen to be on R2 version or the storage is on on 2003 R2
or better, you can use FSRM to determin which files are candidates to move.
Perhaps then take this list to a script or better, powershell that moves the
files off to cheaper space.

I use a similar approach with a Manufacturing company and their CAD files.

Jack wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> The client is an engineering/consulting firm. They have tons of
> drawing and picture files saved on SBS. And they do not want to resize
> the pictures at all. Disk quota policies are not suitable for them
> either.
>
> The SBS' 400GB data partition is kind of full. I will installed 2
> mirrored 600GB hard drives to create a 600GB data partition tomorrow.
> But I am concerned that the 600GB new space can be quickly filled up
> too.
>
> They have lots old files that can be archived to release space from
> SBS, I think it can be up to 200GB. How do you archive them if you are
> in my position?
>
> Here are some solutions I can think of
> - Burn them onto discs
> But this can be a lot of work and discs can be scratched
> - Transfer them onto a USB hard drive
> But hard drives are fragile, it can be damaged. The contents on it
> can be deleted or modified accidentally.
> - Setup a NAS box to hold archived files
> But it can be stolen or damaged.
>
> Any one can shed me some lights?
>
> Thanks
> Jack

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/kj

Jack wrote:
> On Nov 30, 3:13 pm, "kj [SBS MVP]" <KevinJ....@SPAMFREE.gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> One of the hard parts of doing this is determining what should be
>> moved to archive. If you happen to be on R2 version or the storage
>> is on on 2003 R2 or better, you can use FSRM to determin which files
>> are candidates to move. Perhaps then take this list to a script or
>> better, powershell that moves the files off to cheaper space.
>>
>> I use a similar approach with a Manufacturing company and their CAD
>> files.
>>
>>
>>
>> Jack wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>
>>> The client is an engineering/consulting firm. They have tons of
>>> drawing and picture files saved on SBS. And they do not want to
>>> resize the pictures at all. Disk quota policies are not suitable
>>> for them either.
>>
>>> The SBS' 400GB data partition is kind of full. I will installed 2
>>> mirrored 600GB hard drives to create a 600GB data partition
>>> tomorrow. But I am concerned that the 600GB new space can be
>>> quickly filled up too.
>>
>>> They have lots old files that can be archived to release space from
>>> SBS, I think it can be up to 200GB. How do you archive them if you
>>> are in my position?
>>
>>> Here are some solutions I can think of
>>> - Burn them onto discs
>>> But this can be a lot of work and discs can be scratched
>>> - Transfer them onto a USB hard drive
>>> But hard drives are fragile, it can be damaged. The contents on it
>>> can be deleted or modified accidentally.
>>> - Setup a NAS box to hold archived files
>>> But it can be stolen or damaged.
>>
>>> Any one can shed me some lights?
>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Jack
>>
>> --
>> /kj
>
> Yes, it is SBS2K3 R2 box which has FSRM.
> Where do you move your client's CAD files onto?

After 90 days the idle CAd files are moved to one of four 1TB USB drives.
Different product lines have seperate drives. Still they are facing some
business decisions about what to do for longer term storage. They had been
using an old tape unit but reliability and media costs are driving them
towards cheap disks.



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/kj