Offline directory archive / search.

farss wrote on 11/3/2009, 1:31 AM

I'm certain I'm not the first to face this problem.
Lots of HDDs around the place, some spinning on one PC or another, some offline in cupboards. Trying to keep track of where stuff is, is becoming quite a chore. I'm wondering if anyone has found a good solution.
I've asked elsewhere, where people who manage large datacentres sometimes hang out but.... some of their solutions are fine but only when the drives are online it would seem. Someone did suggest this functionality is in Win 7?
If nothing exists I could roll my own database app to do the work. Keep the backend on a server so it can be queried from any machine on the network and also so it can be updated from any machine on the network.

Bob.

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ushere wrote on 11/3/2009, 4:15 AM

hi bob,

will be interested in what you come up with.

life was good with scenalyser, i have html indexes of all my dv tapes on / offline, but presumably like you, i still shoot mainly tape (and always for clients).

at the moment i have a loose-leaf ring folder (not paperless yet!) in which i log the hd tapes on my shelf. looked to some software to do it but nothing comes to mind.....

leslie

TheHappyFriar wrote on 11/3/2009, 5:26 AM

if I need to archive a list of everything in an area (IE everything I burned to CD/DVD) I use the old fashioned I use DOS commands:
dir /s /on >filename.txt

takes everything in that folder & under & puts it in to filename.txt

there's some windows apps that will do this fancier but this works for me. I then store that file someone on my hard drive & maybe print it out to physically look at.