pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov (Peter Scott) (11/19/90)
As we cluster more Suns and bring more users on line, we will find ourselves in need of a tool for users to archive files they no longer need on line. I am looking for something like a tool I once wrote for VMS (in DCL; don't bother suggesting porting it) that provided an extremely simple interface for users and sysadmins: the users had the commands ARCHIVE (send specified files to archive), ARCDEL (delete files from archive), ARCDIR (directory of archive within given parameters) and RESTORE (get back specified files from archive). Behind the scenes, the system would copy the files in an ARCHIVE request to a separate disk, and when various thresholds were reached, would tell the sysadmin to run a procedure that would move those files to a tape and update an index on disk. If I could get a tool that did that for Unix I'd be happy. Either $free or extremely good. Thanks. This is news. This is your | Peter Scott, NASA/JPL/Caltech brain on news. Any questions? | (pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov)