[Cialug] Cleaning out a network share

[Nathan C. Smith]

I forgot to say, where Microsoft is involved a search for abandoned .tmp
files is always a good place to start.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel.Juliano at wellsfargo.com 
> [mailto:Daniel.Juliano at wellsfargo.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 4:53 PM
> To: cialug at cialug.org
> Subject: RE: [Cialug] Cleaning out a network share
> 
> 
> Mixing tech with human interaction is pretty much where we're headed.
> 
> Back up to another disk may not be all that troublesome, as 
> it's only 90GB, which is not that much.
> 
> I did manage to cull from 180,000 files to roughly 50,000 by 
> ripping the results of the treemap tool through a JEdit macro 
> and filtering based on file type and removing folders that 
> don't pertain.
> 
> I'll have to show off the treemap tool at the next LUG I 
> attend, it's pretty nifty.  Unfortunately, due to teaching 
> part time again this semester, I probably won't make LUG 
> until January or so.
> 
> =Dan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org 
> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of kristau
> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 12:20 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Cleaning out a network share
> 
> On 10/26/06, Daniel.Juliano at wellsfargo.com 
> <Daniel.Juliano at wellsfargo.com> wrote:
> > I guess I'm shooting for more along the lines of 
> 'visualization' than
> > outright deletion.
> 
> Perhaps a hybrid of human review and deletion would work?
> 
> 1) Identify the most recently updated items (3 to 9 months) 
> and mark them for human review.
> 2) Make an easily-accessible catalog of the remaining items.  
> This can be done many ways, but the best would be a list in 
> the acutal folder where the items reside.
> 3) Back up everything.
> 4) Remove the items that were older than the human-reviewed 
> ones.  For the first 6 to 9 months, remove these to a 
> readily-accessible storage device for quick retrieval.  After 
> that, move them to tape and/or off-site.
> 
> A little mix of both worlds.
> 
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