File Server Migration

Hooray! The boss finally let you get a new file server. Either the old file server filled up, croaked, or came off lease. Now comes the exciting part - migrating all those files to the new server. It's a daunting task.

Migrating hundreds of gigabytes or terabytes is a big nightmare. The biggest mistake you can make is moving everything to the new server. Industry statistics show that over 50% of a file server contents are old and unneeded files. Why would want to migrate all the really old files to the new server? Waterford Technologies provides an affordable, easy-to-install File Archiving Tool to make your File Server Migration job easier.

File Server Migration

Understand what is on your file servers: MM File Analyzer reporting and analysis gives you the understanding and insight into your file server storage usage. With MM File Analyzer, you will immediately see how your file storage is being used and wasted.

Clean Up: MM File Analyzer gives you reports where you can see the oldest, most duplicates, and clear vision into the "junk" that fills up your file servers. From any report, click on a file or folder and toss it into the trash to remove the files from your file server. You can use MM File Archiver policies for file archiving to delete files that are old or unneeded.

Set a Storage Goal and use Automated Policies: MM File Archiver has automated policies that can free up space on your old file servers before you migrate the files to the new server. Files that are older than a specified time period, unneeded, or unused are automatically moved to a file archive where they are compressed, encrypted and stored for automatic retrieval. You can have different policies for different folders. The original file location contains a tiny 1K shortcut link "stub" that automatically retrieves the file from the archive. You can migrate the shortcut to the new file server. It's seamless to users. Files are shrunk and deduplicated on to lower cost storage. MM File Archiver packs your files (compressed, encrypted, deduplicated, single instanced) into folders on low cost storage that reduce your long backup time even more.

In a today's economy, you have daily pressure to reduce costs and deliver more value. MM File Analyzer and MM File Archiver are the easiest and most affordable way to implement File Server Migration.