Tracking files loaded by clients on a file server

[robertatwork]

Hello,

My company has an old legacy Novell Netware 4.11 server. We are trying to get rid of it, but we really don't know what our users are still using on it. The reason it is difficult to tell what is in use, is that it has 3 volumes, and #EVERYONE gets drive mappings to all three volumes at login.

What I am looking for, would be a piece of software that will monitor the file system, and give me a report saying "the following files were loaded at least once in the last month." So I can migrate those files off, backup the rest of the files and down the server.

I figure there is an NLM out there to do this, but I would like to know if anyone can recommend some software that they have used/heard about.

Thank you

--Robert Carlson

 

[TheLad]

You can run reports like this using NDIR. Can't remember the exact syntax but run a command prompt and do

NDIR /? ALL

to get the syntax. You can list all files by last accessed times and also specify a filter to only display files not accessed in (for example) the last year. -----------------------------------------------------
"It's true, its damn true!"
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[robertatwork]

that worked, thank you

ndir /up aft 01-01-03 /s /sort up /c >> c:\files_since_2002.txt

unfortunatly "UP" - last update date command won't work because of the nightly virus scans

--Robert