[Cialug] Cleaning out a network share

[Daniel.Juliano at wellsfargo.com]

Mixing tech with human interaction is pretty much where we're headed.

Back up to another disk may not be all that troublesome, as it's only
90GB, which is not that much.

I did manage to cull from 180,000 files to roughly 50,000 by ripping the
results of the treemap tool through a JEdit macro and filtering based on
file type and removing folders that don't pertain.

I'll have to show off the treemap tool at the next LUG I attend, it's
pretty nifty.  Unfortunately, due to teaching part time again this
semester, I probably won't make LUG until January or so.

=Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
Behalf Of kristau
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 12:20 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Cleaning out a network share

On 10/26/06, Daniel.Juliano at wellsfargo.com
<Daniel.Juliano at wellsfargo.com> wrote:
> I guess I'm shooting for more along the lines of 'visualization' than 
> outright deletion.

Perhaps a hybrid of human review and deletion would work?

1) Identify the most recently updated items (3 to 9 months) and mark
them for human review.
2) Make an easily-accessible catalog of the remaining items.  This can
be done many ways, but the best would be a list in the acutal folder
where the items reside.
3) Back up everything.
4) Remove the items that were older than the human-reviewed ones.  For
the first 6 to 9 months, remove these to a readily-accessible storage
device for quick retrieval.  After that, move them to tape and/or
off-site.

A little mix of both worlds.

--
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Coding late into the night
The core dump follows

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