Disk space usage on the network
Those network administrators beta testing the new v2.0 version of BulletProof FolderSizes seem pretty happy. Why? Because v2.0 substantially improves support for scanning network drives and folders, making it trivial to produce disk space usage reports for computers on the LAN.
Specifically, v2.0 of BulletProof FolderSizes allows for the specification of a UNC path in every path input box contained in the software. You can find large files and folders, duplicate files, old files, temporary files, and report on distribution of space per file type... both on local and network connected computers.
This capability is particularly powerful when coupled with v2.0's new command-line interface. Is it now possible to invoke BulletProof FolderSizes from a batch script, have it scan a network drive, tell it to export the scan results in HTML to a folder accessible via your web server, and then exit. Repeat as required in the batch script, and when you wake up in the morning, you can access all these reports remotely via your web server. Or export them to XML and use XSLT to transform them to whatever format you prefer.
Now that's just plain cool. ;-)
Specifically, v2.0 of BulletProof FolderSizes allows for the specification of a UNC path in every path input box contained in the software. You can find large files and folders, duplicate files, old files, temporary files, and report on distribution of space per file type... both on local and network connected computers.
This capability is particularly powerful when coupled with v2.0's new command-line interface. Is it now possible to invoke BulletProof FolderSizes from a batch script, have it scan a network drive, tell it to export the scan results in HTML to a folder accessible via your web server, and then exit. Repeat as required in the batch script, and when you wake up in the morning, you can access all these reports remotely via your web server. Or export them to XML and use XSLT to transform them to whatever format you prefer.
Now that's just plain cool. ;-)
posted by Mark Richards at 5:53 AM
