remote storage

[mudcow007]

right bare with me is this doesn't make sense at first

 

im looking at setting up and archive for some old data that we have sitting on our file server.

 

what i woudl like to be able to do is move the data to a dvd somewhere but leave behind (where the data lived) an image of the data that has been moved to storage.

 

its kind alike remote storage but hopefully i want a net message to say insert disk 3 etc

 

is there anyway of doing this?

 

oh its server 2000

[mrforgetful]

Is this not what Remote Storage does in the Add/Remove Windows Components?

[mattx]

Build a cheap FreeNAS [ http://www.freenas.org ] box and either copy the data to it or stick the drive in with the data on in the NAS box ? Freenas supports [ to a level - NTFS ] - in fact checking the latest beta its NTFS support is now a little better......

[bazuk]

i agree with mattx get free nas

 

totally rules

 

baz

[SimpleSi]

I think what mudcow007 wants is a facility like old mainframes used.

 

e.g program wants some data but the OS has archived it off to a tape somewhere so it alerts an operator to go and get the tape (DVD in this case) and make it available.

 

Yes?

 

regards

 

Simon