Well, the idea was good...
- TAGS:large files, SAN, scripting
- IT TOPICS:Management, Storage
One of this sysadmin pilot fish's regular tasks is recovering space on Windows servers. "We constantly received tickets for low space, so I usually looked up the biggest consumers and then called or emailed them and asked them to delete old and large files," fish says.
"This worked well until I got the bright idea to use a script that would find old and large files, then dump the user's email ID into an Outlook message.
"The first few times worked great. But then one day a VP stopped by my desk to tell me that company officers didn't know what the email was about because their executive assistants handled all that, and not to bother them with any more emails.
"Within a few months we purchased more SAN. I wonder how much free space it has."
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