Full text search in migrated objects

[bonobos]

Hi,

do I have the possibility to perform a full text search in migrated objects on archive storage boxes or LTO tapes, without restoring them?

I heard this could be done by an indexing service in Windows 2000/20003. Does anybody have any experience with that? According to this link it should work ...
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms978221.aspx

Thanks for any information about that ...

 

[JohanW]

It would work if you indexed the stuff before archiving it, and the indexing plays nice with or ignores the archiving. We use Content Manager with CommonStore; CM indexes what CS archives I believe (or something like that).

But you can't retroactively index what you can't access no more ..

 

[bonobos]

Mmh, that would be quite a problem if I need a CM for that... It gets expensive then. I hoped the Windows NTFS feature could index the files, but I still don't know if it's possible ...

Thanks anyway!

 

[heada]

An index of the files can be done and be done by any indexing program, but it must be done *before* the files are migrated. After they've been migrated there are no files to index (just pointers to whatever storage you have)

-Aaron

 

[bonobos]

Yes that sounds clear, but does anybody know if the indexing service of NTFS can work like that? Does it work with HSM?