I would be cautious installing any third party HSM module, especially if
the number of files reaches into the millions.

You will find that it will be impossible to finish your sweeps of the
objects, and then you really have a mess. The management side will be a
nightmare (unable to clean up orphaned objects, unable to finish
migrations, etc...).

If the data is currently indexed and owned by an application, it is
there that policies should be enforced and data movement is controlled.
Easier said than done....but start planting the seed now.

Archiving and backups should be completely separate entities, and they
should never touch - especially when you are trying to address large
file systems with 100's of millions of files. The vendors will have you
thinking otherwise, because they know how difficult it is to get this
accomplished.

That is my opinion.

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Oscar Olsson
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 3:23 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Migrating from Networker to Commvault galaxy

On 2008-07-07 16:29, John Stoffel revealed:

JS> Our biggest hope is that we can get the CommVault Archiving module
JS> (HSM) working with NFS exported filesystems on NetApps.  Are you
JS> planning on going this route as well?

Nope.

JS> I'm also thinking that there should be a better forum for CommVault
JS> users to share experiences.  I'd love to work on setting up a
mailing
JS> list for CommVault users like this one.
JS> 
JS> Maybe a Yahoo group to start?

Hm, there are some community driven efforts as far as I can tell. The 
motives behind the forums are unclear, and the activity seems kind of
low 
as well. I can only speculate what the motives behind creating these 
semi-idle communities are, but there really doesn't seem to be many 
alternatives otherwise. I wonder why that is though. Maybe commvault has

appealed to users that are less used to community forums and mailing 
lists..?

Either way, this is what I found:

http://www.commvaultsupport.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl
http://www.commvaultusers.com/
http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-backup-central-ma
iling-lists-4/commvault-galaxy-10/

//Oscar

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