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Reorganizing Shares for Better Backup
Posted by Elissa on Wed, Mar 10, 2010 @ 11:30 AM
A couple of months ago a customer came to us hoping to replace StorageX, which he had learned would soon be discontinued. Due to some access enumeration issues, he’d never gotten StorageX working properly, and had finally reached the point at which he needed the functionality he’d originally been promised.
AutoVirt is a drop-in replacement for StorageX, but we were a bit surprised when we learned why our customer had bought StorageX and was now interested in AutoVirt: backup. AutoVirt is not a backup tool, but it turns out that some impediments to backup strategy may not be addressed by backup tools.
When user shares and file system directories are disorganized, it is difficult to meet backup, security, and retention policies. Suppose you have different backup requirements for different departments, as our customer did. If department-owned shares aren’t clearly defined, it is impossible to create department-specific backup policies. Instead, you have to back up everything to meet the tightest set of regulations.
This isn’t necessarily a problem until backups begin to take too long and your backed-up data takes up too much space. And if you ever need to recover backed-up data – because isn’t that the point? – it won’t be easy to find the files your users need.
Our customer had a plan: he wanted to create a new directory structure on a new file server, and move shares from the old file server into the new structure. The problem was that the reorganization would take too much time and create too much end-user disruption. Enter AutoVirt.
We’re excited to hear how the project progresses. We’re also wondering how many other people out there are facing backup policies stymied by share organization.
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