One powerful capability of Digital Storage Manager is its ability to migrate your document files from production servers to other online or offline storage resources and back. With built-in archive and retrieval workflows, document files can be efficiently managed and migrated across storage tiers.
Digital Storage Manager supports two types of archiving workflows. The first is a decentralized workflow, which enables users within a workgroup to perform their own archiving functions. The second is a centralized workflow where a central archivist or cybrarian handles archive and retrieval requests in the form of queues.
Users in a centralized workflow may assign a date on which files or folders are archived, while users in a decentralized workflow assume the responsibility of archiving their own files.
Using Digital Storage Manager's powerful archiving features you can quickly and simply archive to your choice of offline media or to online servers. When archiving to online servers, Digital Storage Manager even creates disaster recovery and archive media in one step, eliminating the countless hours and expense involved in maintaining large storage repositories.
Digital Storage Manager provides automated archiving and media allocation functionality. Digital Storage Manager collects files for archiving and organizes them onto media determined by options selected by users. This archive process is supported by "Helpers," which support numerous industry standard archiving technologies. Currently supported solutions include:
With simplified retrieval workflows and support for industry standard backup tools, Digital Storage Manager will help streamline and automate your retrieval process. No more hunting through stacks of archive media for the files you need to return online.
Digital Storage Manager provides a unique technology for archiving to online disk-based servers and creating disaster recovery media in one simple step. The result is a process which virtually eliminates the need to perform time consuming full and incremental backups on archive servers. By using Digital Storage Manager to archive files, Administrators can simply delete files when they wish to make additional space available. Digital Storage Manager will automatically track when that backup/archive media was created and will revert to the removable media copy when a user needs access to the deleted file. This saves time, simplifies the process, and drastically lowers the cost of disaster recovery hardware and software by eliminating the need to back up large storage repositories on a regular basis.
Digital Storage Manager can optionally create backup disaster recovery media during the process of archiving - eliminating the cost of backup solutions and time consuming maintenance of your online archives.