All,
We currently have EV Version 10 and next year we plan to ugprade to version 11. Right now we are only using EV for Email archiving, however I am proposing we take a really hard look at file archiving as well.
Our fleet is about 75% Windows and 25% Mac who all access files across NetAPP CIFS Shares or the occasional windows volume.
1. Can EV do file based archiving on CIFS Shares (I know it can on Windows File Servers)
2. Can we use EV for file based archiving in the cloud? Meaning that lets say I create something on my peresonal directory. After 1 year, it stubs and goes to our cheaper slower storage and after year 2 it goes to the cloud and remains there forever.
3. Can Mac's use the stub feature? I saw that Grouplogic has a plugin. Has anyone had any luck with that?
Our goal here is to reduce our tape backup capcity to only what is considered current and relevant and ignore the rest. (Let EV deal with it)
Any thoughts or strategy's anyone can share?
Thanks
Paul