[NCSA-discuss] SCO nfs

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Tue, 8 May 2012, Craig Cook wrote:

> Something else you could look at is reducing the data the 
> currently have.  Can they purge old accounting data to 
> free up space?

They've had the same sized disk (40G) for about 10yrs and 
apparently the disk space used hasn't increased very much. I 
assume the database/ledger size was set when the app was 
initialised and the amount of storage hasn't changed since 
then. Possibly the only increase in storage has come from 
adding the occasional new ledger.

I'm loathe to go in and suggest changes to his business 
practices. He's been running the business for 40yrs and 
doesn't need business work flow advice from a computer 
consultant whose only exposure to the business was a 2hr 
discussion to get a bigger disk. Maybe after I get to know 
the business better and he gets some confidence in my level 
of common sense he'll be interested in suggestions like 
this. At the moment I'm staying in my area of expertise and 
treading lightly elsewhere.

> Lots of people keep data around "just in case we need 
> it".  Run whatever reports you need, print them, put them 
> in a file cabinet, purge old data.  No hardware changes 
> required.

Presumably I'll get to find out all this stuff eventually, 
but I have no idea how they do things right now.

Joe

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