Storage Management

Storage Management

[Beginner]

Hi Admins,

I notice that one of my disk-based systems has lots of files that 
seem to have been hanging around for a ages. One user had over 50GB 
of data in a folder and they have left over a year ago. 

I am sure there are both commercial and open source tools for 
managing disk space. I want to identify very old files like the ones 
above and mark them for archiving and hopefully have a reporting 
tools so I can show users how much they are hogging and what files 
have been around for a long time.

Does anyone have an recommendations on a tool that might help? I 
could do something creative with find and perl but I think there are 
better tools out there than anything I could do. Is this what they 
call storage resource management?

Thanx,
Dp.

Re: Storage Management

[Yuri Csapo]

Hi Dp.,

I'm sure you're right and there probably are tools out there to do what 
you want. As an old-schooler though I must point out that that is not 
"the Unix way" (and sorry if I equate Linux and Unix, but that's how I 
see it). I think you really should do something creative with find or 
perl or ruby or python. Not only it would be a great way to exercise 
your sysadmin skills, it might become the basis for a whole library of 
discrete tools to do that kind of thing that would in the least save you 
some money; and might conceivably be useful for others and you could 
make your own contribution to the Open Source world some day!

Just my $.02...

Yuri

Beginner wrote:
> Hi Admins,
> 
> I notice that one of my disk-based systems has lots of files that 
> seem to have been hanging around for a ages. One user had over 50GB 
> of data in a folder and they have left over a year ago. 
> 
> I am sure there are both commercial and open source tools for 
> managing disk space. I want to identify very old files like the ones 
> above and mark them for archiving and hopefully have a reporting 
> tools so I can show users how much they are hogging and what files 
> have been around for a long time.
> 
> Does anyone have an recommendations on a tool that might help? I 
> could do something creative with find and perl but I think there are 
> better tools out there than anything I could do. Is this what they 
> call storage resource management?
> 
> Thanx,
> Dp.
> 
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storage management

[Fabien.LIOU]

Hello,

Do you a know an centralised data storage management software like
"DiskExtender (Windows)" that can deal with librairies, worm, cdrom,etc...
and specially HP surestore and can build file systems with these remote
devices ?
Even if it's a commercial software.

Thanks
Fabien