Re: I want all those MP3 files out of my file server

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From: Pegasus \(MVP\) (I.can_at_fly.com)
Date: 11/10/04 

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 00:08:29 +1100

"Zorpetus" <zorpetus@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:c51808d3.0411100455.46a2e7ff@posting.google.com...
> > You know, sometimes I wish that you guys would actually go ahead and
> > try these things before you pontificate. I know, because I've done it,
> > that backing up after deleting files is much faster than backing up
> > the same data by excluding files. Now you can theorise all you like.
> > But the acid test is the practical one. It IS faster if you delete the
> > files rather than exclude them.
>
> Yes, you are right, it slows the backup process down. Also, it waste
> server storage space as well.
>
> I was hoping to receive some hint in a form of a script (thanx Pegasus!),
> which would help me to determnine who has all those MP3 files on the
> server and to ask the user (by e-mail, politely) to remove it before
> the backup.
>
> Ideally, it would be best if some script could be written to give some
> .htm (.txt) report on the some shared area of the file server that I
> could make as my "start" page of my browser - so I could see server
> disk usage statistics each morning when I turn my computer on.

The script sample I gave you creates one text file for every user's
personal share. Isn't this what you require?

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