Archive Manager for Files is a software-based enterprise file archiving solution that connects to overworked file-servers and re-directs documents onto separate, more cost-effictive storage media. It also controls how long files are archived in accordance with industry, government, and legal regulations. Administrators and authorized users can retrieve, delete, and restore documents.
Archive Manager for Files is a software-based enterprise file archiving solution that connects to overworked file servers and re-directs documents onto separate, more cost-effective storage media. It also controls how long messages are archived in accordance with industry and legal regulations. Administrators and authorized users can retrieve, delete and restore messages and attachments. The integrated HSM Engine drives the archiving process that controls file lifecycle management.
Single Instance Storing automatically archives only one instance of a document that has been saved multiple times. PAM for Files checks whether identical files have already been saved by means of Single Instance Method (MD5 logic). This avoids multiple versions of the same file and significantly reduces storage space. Authorized users can still access and edit the document as usual.
File archiving jobs can be set for pre-determined times. The IT Administrator can manage the time period of these jobs by specified criteria: for documents of a certain type, those that exceed a certain size and age, or documents from particular users. The Archive Manager for Files Manager adds various filters to jobs for specific archiving options.
Manage multiple domains of File Server environments in different locations around the world. Create archiving jobs from remote servers and replace stored files using HTML shortcuts. Network flexibility and offsite systems improve the adaptability of file archiving infrastructures. Archived files are easily accessible via the web portal from worldwide locations.
The IT Administrator can set retention times on documents for complete control of the file lifecycle with regards to litigation. After designating a file with a deletion time, the admin can assign a "keep-alive period" that warns when the retention time is reached and the file is about to be deleted from the archive.
If an archived document is accessed and edited, PAM for Files recognizes the amendments and automatically stores the revised document as a new version. Authorized users can then view the different instances, new or original, of that document. This prerequisite archiving tool is central to compliant storage management and retrieving files for e-Discovery.
Automated file lifecycle management is applied to every aspect of PAM for Files archiving. Capturing, routing, storing, restoring and deleting documents from the backbone of a document lifecycle and can all be automated using the HSM Archive engine.
Parallel archiving of files onto many storage devices provides high availability and functions primarily as a backup file system. Should a file server malfunction, the effortless restore functionality of PAM for Files allows an administrator to retrieve archived files to a target server. File restoration jobs are easily managed from the archive to the MS-System File Server.
Authorized users can manage their own file system by manually archiving and restoring documents. Ordinary users are not affected by the file archiving process; they remain completely unaware of the PAM for Files installation. The user interface is unchanged and the users’ daily file processes are unaffected.