[ale] Data archiving software?

[Jeff Lightner]

NetBackup ($$$) has built in archiving features that let you do things
like send it to tape then delete it - you can even make it go to tape
twice before you delete it - at one job we did that with Oracle log
files.   BackupExec is cheaper and also a Symantec (Veritas) product but
I don't know if it does Linux or archiving.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jeff
Layton
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 10:29 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Data archiving software?

Jerald Sheets wrote:
> What format is the current data in, and on what kind of media are you 
> storing it?

Ah... the easy questions... :)  Well I'll have to dive into more details
to answer this. I've got output from HPC apps in various forms
(some text, some binary in various forms) that vary in format. The
data is stored in a parallel file system such as Lustre, GPFS,
GlusterFS,
IBRIX, etc.

The media can be varied. In general it's something that is reliable and
can be kept for years (on the order of 10) and is cheap :)  Cheap
means cheaper than keeping the data in the current parallel file system.

Thanks!

Jeff
>
> --j
>
> On Oct 13, 2008, at 10:12 AM, Jeff Layton wrote:
>> Good morning,
>>
>> I'm looking around for data archiving software as a general
>> solution. In particular what I want to do is archive data by
>> moving it onto a different storage media and removing from
>> the existing storage. I don't need any metadata from the
>> archived data to be left behind except perhaps some kind of
>> database that contains a list of the files.
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