Good Day,

Our company is looking into a product called Diskextender which moves files
from one location to another location and leaves a stub in it's place. Does
anybody use this product and if so what do you think of it (Pros and Cons)
and is there anything out there that you may feel is better.

Any recommendations or suggestions would be a great help.

Thank You
Adam Raff

In what context are you going to use this? Anything that complicates backups
and restores is probably not a good thing. If you are running out of disk
space the only real solution is larger disks or move the files to a new
place with more room.

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/



"Adam Raff" <araff@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
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> Good Day,
>
> Our company is looking into a product called Diskextender which moves
> files from one location to another location and leaves a stub in it's
> place. Does anybody use this product and if so what do you think of it
> (Pros and Cons) and is there anything out there that you may feel is
> better.
>
> Any recommendations or suggestions would be a great help.
>
> Thank You
> Adam Raff
>

In what context are you going to use this? Anything that complicates backups
and restores is probably not a good thing. If you are running out of disk
space the only real solution is larger disks or move the files to a new
place with more room.

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/



"Adam Raff" <araff@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
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> Good Day,
>
> Our company is looking into a product called Diskextender which moves
> files from one location to another location and leaves a stub in it's
> place. Does anybody use this product and if so what do you think of it
> (Pros and Cons) and is there anything out there that you may feel is
> better.
>
> Any recommendations or suggestions would be a great help.
>
> Thank You
> Adam Raff
>

Adam Raff <araff@newsgroup.nospam> wrote:
> Good Day,
>
> Our company is looking into a product called Diskextender which moves
> files from one location to another location and leaves a stub in it's
> place. Does anybody use this product and if so what do you think of
> it (Pros and Cons) and is there anything out there that you may feel
> is better.
> Any recommendations or suggestions would be a great help.
>
> Thank You
> Adam Raff

I have to agree with the other reply. Disks are cheap. I haven't used or
seen DiskExtender, but I don't really see the point of it, given that
....well, given that disks are cheap. If you can't add more space to your
file server as is, look into getting another box running Windows Storage
Server or something.

Adam Raff <araff@newsgroup.nospam> wrote:
> Good Day,
>
> Our company is looking into a product called Diskextender which moves
> files from one location to another location and leaves a stub in it's
> place. Does anybody use this product and if so what do you think of
> it (Pros and Cons) and is there anything out there that you may feel
> is better.
> Any recommendations or suggestions would be a great help.
>
> Thank You
> Adam Raff

I have to agree with the other reply. Disks are cheap. I haven't used or
seen DiskExtender, but I don't really see the point of it, given that
....well, given that disks are cheap. If you can't add more space to your
file server as is, look into getting another box running Windows Storage
Server or something.

We have decided not to use the product as the cost was to high for our
company. Also the product did not have some options that I hoped it would
have for the price.

To answer your question we have a lot of files of which we always seem to
need. I move older files to another server manually so that we can keep our
backup time down to a reasonable time. It has happened that a few times
users can not find said files and in essence they misplaced them at times.
This program looked great not only for backup but for file management.
After a certain time the file would be moved leaving a stub behind this
allowed the users to find there files when it moved to the other server
which is backed up less often as the files on that server are not as
important and did not require constant backup. This also reduced our backup
time on our primary servers.

thanks for your feedback
Adam Raff


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
<lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmailatya hoo.com> wrote in message
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> Adam Raff <araff@newsgroup.nospam> wrote:
>> Good Day,
>>
>> Our company is looking into a product called Diskextender which moves
>> files from one location to another location and leaves a stub in it's
>> place. Does anybody use this product and if so what do you think of
>> it (Pros and Cons) and is there anything out there that you may feel
>> is better.
>> Any recommendations or suggestions would be a great help.
>>
>> Thank You
>> Adam Raff
>
> I have to agree with the other reply. Disks are cheap. I haven't used or
> seen DiskExtender, but I don't really see the point of it, given that
> ...well, given that disks are cheap. If you can't add more space to your
> file server as is, look into getting another box running Windows Storage
> Server or something.
>

We have decided not to use the product as the cost was to high for our
company. Also the product did not have some options that I hoped it would
have for the price.

To answer your question we have a lot of files of which we always seem to
need. I move older files to another server manually so that we can keep our
backup time down to a reasonable time. It has happened that a few times
users can not find said files and in essence they misplaced them at times.
This program looked great not only for backup but for file management.
After a certain time the file would be moved leaving a stub behind this
allowed the users to find there files when it moved to the other server
which is backed up less often as the files on that server are not as
important and did not require constant backup. This also reduced our backup
time on our primary servers.

thanks for your feedback
Adam Raff


"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
<lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmailatya hoo.com> wrote in message
news:%237$IhfhUIHA.4532@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Adam Raff <araff@newsgroup.nospam> wrote:
>> Good Day,
>>
>> Our company is looking into a product called Diskextender which moves
>> files from one location to another location and leaves a stub in it's
>> place. Does anybody use this product and if so what do you think of
>> it (Pros and Cons) and is there anything out there that you may feel
>> is better.
>> Any recommendations or suggestions would be a great help.
>>
>> Thank You
>> Adam Raff
>
> I have to agree with the other reply. Disks are cheap. I haven't used or
> seen DiskExtender, but I don't really see the point of it, given that
> ...well, given that disks are cheap. If you can't add more space to your
> file server as is, look into getting another box running Windows Storage
> Server or something.
>

Adam Raff <araff@newsgroup.nospam> wrote:
> We have decided not to use the product as the cost was to high for our
> company. Also the product did not have some options that I hoped it
> would have for the price.
>
> To answer your question we have a lot of files of which we always
> seem to need. I move older files to another server manually so that
> we can keep our backup time down to a reasonable time. It has
> happened that a few times users can not find said files and in
> essence they misplaced them at times. This program looked great not
> only for backup but for file management. After a certain time the
> file would be moved leaving a stub behind this allowed the users to
> find there files when it moved to the other server which is backed up
> less often as the files on that server are not as important and did
> not require constant backup. This also reduced our backup time on
> our primary servers.
> thanks for your feedback
> Adam Raff
>
You're most welcome - thanks for posting back.

>
> "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
> <lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmailatya hoo.com> wrote in
> message news:%237$IhfhUIHA.4532@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Adam Raff <araff@newsgroup.nospam> wrote:
>>> Good Day,
>>>
>>> Our company is looking into a product called Diskextender which
>>> moves files from one location to another location and leaves a stub
>>> in it's place. Does anybody use this product and if so what do you
>>> think of it (Pros and Cons) and is there anything out there that
>>> you may feel is better.
>>> Any recommendations or suggestions would be a great help.
>>>
>>> Thank You
>>> Adam Raff
>>
>> I have to agree with the other reply. Disks are cheap. I haven't
>> used or seen DiskExtender, but I don't really see the point of it,
>> given that ...well, given that disks are cheap. If you can't add
>> more space to your file server as is, look into getting another box
>> running Windows Storage Server or something.

Adam Raff <araff@newsgroup.nospam> wrote:
> We have decided not to use the product as the cost was to high for our
> company. Also the product did not have some options that I hoped it
> would have for the price.
>
> To answer your question we have a lot of files of which we always
> seem to need. I move older files to another server manually so that
> we can keep our backup time down to a reasonable time. It has
> happened that a few times users can not find said files and in
> essence they misplaced them at times. This program looked great not
> only for backup but for file management. After a certain time the
> file would be moved leaving a stub behind this allowed the users to
> find there files when it moved to the other server which is backed up
> less often as the files on that server are not as important and did
> not require constant backup. This also reduced our backup time on
> our primary servers.
> thanks for your feedback
> Adam Raff
>
You're most welcome - thanks for posting back.

>
> "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
> <lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmailatya hoo.com> wrote in
> message news:%237$IhfhUIHA.4532@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Adam Raff <araff@newsgroup.nospam> wrote:
>>> Good Day,
>>>
>>> Our company is looking into a product called Diskextender which
>>> moves files from one location to another location and leaves a stub
>>> in it's place. Does anybody use this product and if so what do you
>>> think of it (Pros and Cons) and is there anything out there that
>>> you may feel is better.
>>> Any recommendations or suggestions would be a great help.
>>>
>>> Thank You
>>> Adam Raff
>>
>> I have to agree with the other reply. Disks are cheap. I haven't
>> used or seen DiskExtender, but I don't really see the point of it,
>> given that ...well, given that disks are cheap. If you can't add
>> more space to your file server as is, look into getting another box
>> running Windows Storage Server or something.