Storage Management

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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Re: Storage Management

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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