This information has been taken from the MLtek website who is the producers of ArchiverFS. This program was released first in 2002 and is now in use in a wide and huge range of organizations worldwide, with many being household names. It is one of the most unique software for archiving and network file storage on the market today. It is not like other archiving products on the market, what this company has done it uses normal NTFS folders and files from beginning to end.
Read through guide
This company does not try to do some type of pseudo-document managements like others do. Have a look at this guide for an overview. No, instead they stay to what that is quite good at doing; being highly efficient and lightweight answer that attacks the problems of out of date and old unstructured files as network shares.
Unique approach
It is this unique approach that makes ArchiverFS incredibly scalable and extremely cost-effective. It offers users the maximum cost-effective way to archive old files that is possible, being able to move large quantities of files over the network to 2nd tier storage like SAN or NAS while requiring only a tiny footprint on the host system. It enables the user to migrate, store as well as the end of life old files that are unstructured from your storage in a cost effective as well as controlled manner. Therefore, this program helps the user to tackle challenges like GDPR and Data protection compliance.
Functionality already in Windows
Additionally, this approach that is unique to file archiving has functionality that is already part of any Windows operating systems. ArchiverFS does not require the use of any technicians at every workstations or server making this distribution a breeze.
ArchiverFS allows you to move files that are old along any UNC path to any other UNC path over the network using a range of criteria such as age, types, and size. The place you move old files too can be an iSCSI volume, CIFS share, a NAS device, VM as well as storage in the cloud on Azure, Amazon AWS or Google Cloud. As long as the target and the source volumes both are formatted with NTFS and shared to the network with SMB, then any and all content can be managed and moved between them.
No proprietary storage
There is no proprietary storage; it is NTFS from beginning to end. At no place does this archiving program try to store files in a database or any other ‘proprietary storage mechanism’. This is critical as this software makes it possible for enormous scalability and makes ArchiverFS so extremely efficient to use. The largest file system currently in use with this software so far is at 3.4 Petabytes of data that is unstructured, and this is done using only one Datacenter edition license mounted on a small VM with only 4 vCPUs and just 6 GB of Ram.
Multiple link types
Many various stubs are able to leave the place of files when they are migrated, including links that are completely seamless that act exactly like the original. Both file folders and file are shortcuts that are much like Windows traditional shortcuts can be used, and these offer the benefit of increased compatibility and can even be accessed by Apple Mac by using an add-in such as “Win Shortcutter”.
Exclusive 3 tier storage
This program includes Archived, Live, as well as Graveyard stages. These exclusive stages allow ArchiverFS to advance a real ‘Hierarchical Storage Management’ system and move your old files for just a fraction of the cost of a more traditional file archiving system.
Additionally, you get:
- Installation that is supported on all Windows versions from 2008 Server on, including Windows Storage Server and Server 2019.
- Established product with a large customer base. This program is used by a wide variety of organizations from military servicers, ‘multi-billion-dollar companies’. Government organizations, law enforcement branches, universities and almost every type of business in between in well-over 40 countries.
- Permissions and qualities that are always 100 percent preserved thanks to the use of pure NTFS for second-line storage.
- ‘Daily maintenance program’ that is unique will return files recently used back to the live system and duplicates each item permissions from the live system to the second line storage.
- There is also Unicode support for most file system character sets in the world including not only English but also Arabic, Chinese, Hindi and many more.
Licenses
Both perpetual and subscription licenses are available. For just over $1590 (approximately £1100) for 2 TB of processing and that is for each TB of files that are archived from the live system to 2nd line storage. Unlike many other solutions, we cannot charge based on the amount of old data that is setting idlily in 2nd line storage. The pricing for subscription is based on the size of the files that you move from live to archive storage each year, and not the amount of data you have a setting in second-line storage. Why should you pay year to year just to have content setting there?
Ensure regulatory compliance
The best feature especially for companies in Europe, where there is the GDPR guideline and other countries have something alike. These guidelines almost invariably involve companies to contemplate how long they can keep data for. Meeting these guidelines is challenging for many companies, particularly if they have a lot of data that is unstructured. This will allow the user company to stipulate how long they want to keep file system data before disposing of it.