Large files on network shares

[eyetea]

Hi all,

 

We have several network shares and recently ones been taking a hammering with the amount of stuff on it - from yesturday alone the free space had dropped ~50GB (Total space on this share is 1TB). I've taken a look through with treesize and it seems that our Drama dept are the worst offenders due to them having to record their GCSE lessons.

 

The free space is dwindling quite fast at the moment - We used to store our ISO's on this share but I've since relocated (and thinned out what we need) but there is nothing else from our point I can remove. I'll be chatting to my line manager regarding old files - some of them on there were last accessed 2/3+ years ago, I'll be discussing with him the possibility of asking staff to remove old files such as these. I don't think this will have a huge impact on the remaining space - especially with the amount of new stuff increasing rapidly! I don't want it to be a case of me saying "Please can we find solution to stop using share1" and them just putting them on to share2.

 

How do you guys deal with this? A thought I had would be to have a small (1/2TB) desktop NAS in their office in RAID1 and for them to place it all on there - the only issue is if they delete something by accident etc then it won't be backed up. I could suggest they keep a DVD copy of each lesson too possibly..

 

Any ideas would be good, not quite sure how to approach this!

 

Cheers,

 

J

[machin05]

There was a decent thread on here on couple of weeks ago discussing options for archiving off old files to free up space. Mainly using Robocopy scripts. If I can find it, I'll link it.

[machin05]

http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows/148850-archiving-files-havent-been-accessed-2-years.html