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charold
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The company I started working for in Dec 2014 has a large monolithic file directory structure (virtualized at this point). It's a manufacturing plant that works with multiple vendors, so we have a ton of files that aren't used anymore (company has been around for 50years).
The VAST majority of the files really need to be read-only, and can be archived. I'm looking at trying to find a way to archive all the old files (5+ years old), which still being available, and in the "same location" as far as the end users go.
I don't want to resort to using a bunch of symlinks, but basically I'm wondering if there's a solution to move the old unused files to another datastore, while keeping the directory structure intact and transparent to end users?
Edit: Adding info about current setup
MS Server 2012 R2 for file system
Vmware HA Cluster
16 + 24 Drive Equallogic SANs
Redundant Off building/on-campus Disk backups - Tape backups for offsite
Spare Server 2012 r2 license available for use as well as Server 2008 r2
The VAST majority of the files really need to be read-only, and can be archived. I'm looking at trying to find a way to archive all the old files (5+ years old), which still being available, and in the "same location" as far as the end users go.
I don't want to resort to using a bunch of symlinks, but basically I'm wondering if there's a solution to move the old unused files to another datastore, while keeping the directory structure intact and transparent to end users?
Edit: Adding info about current setup
MS Server 2012 R2 for file system
Vmware HA Cluster
16 + 24 Drive Equallogic SANs
Redundant Off building/on-campus Disk backups - Tape backups for offsite
Spare Server 2012 r2 license available for use as well as Server 2008 r2
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