[WinMac] RE: Compression software for NT wanted
Harris, Matt(HARRISMA[at]Mattel.com)
Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:43:34 -0800
I am fairly certain you can do that with features built into NT for an
entire drive. I don't think you can specify a single directory or not. At
any rate, I would much rather you purchase more disk space to save yourself
a major headache in the future.
The problem is that once you have filled your disk with compressed files,
you will no longer know how much disk space you actually need to decompress
you files. Compression slows down your system significantly when it is
implemented in the way you describe. When you want to improve the stability
of your system in the future, one of the things you will need to do is
decompress. Imagine the headache when the decompression fails with a disk
full error. You absolutely do not want to get in the business of
decompressing stuff file by file to solve that problem. Been there, done
that. Not fun.
The best solution if you want to keep a near line archive of old files is to
burn CD's and keep them in a juke box attached to your server. There are
systems you can buy which will do this automatically as files age, and look
to the users like just another hard disk. One thing to keep in mind - this
is a very expensive technology compared to adding an extra RAID to your
server. It becomes cost effective when you are dealing with 100s of MB of
archived data.
>Owen Watson wrote
>I want a background utility that watches a particular NT4 folder, and
>compresses everything in it (into separate files) that is over a
>user-specified number of days old.
>
>Other zip functions would be welcome, of course. . .
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