A great archiving solution
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We started using Komprise almost 2 years ago and we're using it to archive cold/unused data from our main Storage (CIFS/NFS workloads) to Azure Blobs.
It helped us to free up some space without the need to expand the storage (which would be a considerable investment, during critical times) or even our footprint/power consumption, etc.
Komprise has a very friendly and intuitive web interface and it is very flexible on the policies you can create.
We configured it to archive all data older than 2 years to Azure Blobs and to keep the 'bread crumbs' behind (symlinks to the files), and it is doing a really great job on the archiving!
Pros
- It gives you a good overview on user data: files age, sizes, file types, owners, etc.
- It is very flexible on the archiving policies.
- The data scans are really fast without affecting storage's performance.
- It has a great alternative to STUB files, which they call 'bread crumbs' (symlinks to files).
Cons
- Its licensing plan, which takes into account the amount of data analyzed instead of data transferred.
Likelihood to Recommend
As any other archiving solution, it is very well suited for environments with a large footprint of unstructured data (CIFS / NFS shares for user data) with a large amount of unused/old files and a need to keep those unused files for long term. In our scenario, due to some legal and contractual constraints we need to keep these files for 15 years. Archiving is a good choice to move the unused files to a cheaper storage tier, both on-prem or cloud.