asabadin wrote:

> Im in the process of evalutating software to archive files to cheaper
> storage based on size and date stamp.
>
> Problem, we unfortunately migrated from eDir to AD 2.5 years ago and
> products used thus far use the AD date stamp from when we migrated
> which is not useful.
>
> My question is, does storage manager archive base on the date stamp of
> the file?
>
> I know we have files that havn't been modified for more than 10 years.
>
> Is there a way around this?

How are you archiving files? Are you using a grooming rule? If so,
you can specify a filter based on create/modify/access time. This may
help for archiving files to the vault via grooming. However, to be
honest if you're wanting to archive files to cheaper storage then a
better option is Novell Dynamic File Services for Windows.

https://www.novell.com/products/dynamic-file-services/

This gives you the option of moving files to cheaper storage but still
being accessible "online" by your users, or truly archiving them to
cheaper storage (or even the cloud) and only archive managers have
access to files. It's been a while since I last looked at NDFS but I
believe you can configure policies there as well based on
create/modify/access time.

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Not using anything at the moment.....basically looking fo something that will do the job.

Will look at dynamic files serveices.

thanks :-)

jmarton;2339384 wrote:
asabadin wrote:

> Im in the process of evalutating software to archive files to cheaper
> storage based on size and date stamp.
>
> Problem, we unfortunately migrated from eDir to AD 2.5 years ago and
> products used thus far use the AD date stamp from when we migrated
> which is not useful.
>
> My question is, does storage manager archive base on the date stamp of
> the file?
>
> I know we have files that havn't been modified for more than 10 years.
>
> Is there a way around this?

How are you archiving files? Are you using a grooming rule? If so,
you can specify a filter based on create/modify/access time. This may
help for archiving files to the vault via grooming. However, to be
honest if you're wanting to archive files to cheaper storage then a
better option is Novell Dynamic File Services for Windows.

https://www.novell.com/products/dynamic-file-services/

This gives you the option of moving files to cheaper storage but still
being accessible "online" by your users, or truly archiving them to
cheaper storage (or even the cloud) and only archive managers have
access to files. It's been a while since I last looked at NDFS but I
believe you can configure policies there as well based on
create/modify/access time.

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