Policy Based File Archiving

Your file server storage usage continues to grow by leaps and bounds until: 1) one day the backups won't run or don't finish in time; or 2) you just run out of storage space. That results in a fire drill to find free space. What files can you delete? It's tough going to your boss to justify new hardware when you have no facts or evidence of what happened to all the storage space.

Managing hundreds of gigabytes or terabytes is a big nightmare. Policy Based File Archiving begins with having easy to use tools for reporting, anaylsis, and easy to set up policy rules for file archiving. Waterford Technologies provides an affordable, easy-to-install Policy Based File Archiving to make your job easier.

Policy Based File Archiving

Understand what is on your file servers: File Analyzer reporting and analysis gives you the understanding and insight into your file server storage usage. With file management software, there is no more flying blind or weekends desparately searching for storage relief. With File Analyzer, you will immediately see how your file storage is being used and wasted.

Clean Up: File Analyzer gives you reports where you can see the oldest, most duplicates, and clear vision into the "junk" that fills up your file servers. From any report, click on a file or folder and toss it into the trash to remove the files from your file server and clean up disk space. You can use File Archiver policies for file archiving to delete files that are old or unneeded.

Set a Storage Goal and use Automated Policies: File Archiver has automated policies that can free up space on your file servers. Files that are older than a specified time period, unneeded, or unused are automatically moved to a file archive where they are compressed, encrypted and stored for automatic retrieval. You can have different policies for different folders. Examples: 1) shortcut ("stub") all files older than 3 years; 2) shortcut all PDFs, JPEGs, GIFs, older than 30 days for the marketing department; 3) move all files to the archive with a created date older than 5 years; and 4) shortcut everything that will be copied to the offsite backup site that hasn't changed in 1 year. The original file location contains a tiny 1K shortcut link "stub" that automatically retrieves the file from the archive. It's seamless to users. Files are shrunk and deduplicated on to lower cost storage. File Archiver packs your files (compressed, encrypted, deduplicated, single instanced) into folders on low cost storage that reduce your long backup time even more.

In a today's economy, you have daily pressure to reduce costs and deliver more value. File Analyzer and File Archiver are the easiest and most affordable way to implement Policy Based File Archiving to free up storage space and reduce backup times.