NTFS Junctions/ DFS / Or something else?

Afternoon All,

I am having a slight dilemma let me try and explain.

We are a reasonably small company with only 50 employees. We do alot
of work around HD video and compressions within HD video for web
conferencing. We have a 14TB server which has HD video content on
there in order to make the backups alot easier we have decided to make
folders of 1.8TB which are then backed up onto an external disk then
sent offsite. The only problem with this is the indexing of data here
is where it starts to get confusing.

We have 10 folders and inside those folders are obviously more folders
like below:

Folder1 Folder2 Folder3 Folder4
| | | |
-Data -Data -Data -Date
M1 M1 M3 M3
M2 M2 M4 M4

Now what we need to do is have one share which basically shows like so
\\Share\Data\M1\
and in that share you would have all the information from M1 from
folder 1 and 2 and so on for the other "M" folders. Is anybody aware
of anything that might do this for me? I have looked at DFS and it
doesn't appear that it has this actual ability if i am wrong though
please do correct me.


I look forward to your responses.

Many Thanks

Lewis Sharpe.

 

"loxs" <the.loxs@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Afternoon All,
>
> I am having a slight dilemma let me try and explain.
>
> We are a reasonably small company with only 50 employees. We do alot
> of work around HD video and compressions within HD video for web
> conferencing. We have a 14TB server which has HD video content on
> there in order to make the backups alot easier we have decided to make
> folders of 1.8TB which are then backed up onto an external disk then
> sent offsite. The only problem with this is the indexing of data here
> is where it starts to get confusing.
>
> We have 10 folders and inside those folders are obviously more folders
> like below:
>
> Folder1 Folder2 Folder3 Folder4
> | | | |
> -Data -Data -Data -Date
> M1 M1 M3 M3
> M2 M2 M4 M4
>
> Now what we need to do is have one share which basically shows like so
> \ShareDataM1
> and in that share you would have all the information from M1 from
> folder 1 and 2 and so on for the other "M" folders. Is anybody aware
> of anything that might do this for me? I have looked at DFS and it
> doesn't appear that it has this actual ability if i am wrong though
> please do correct me.
>
> I look forward to your responses.
>
> Many Thanks
>
> Lewis Sharpe.<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

It is logically impossible to have a share that shows the contents of
c:\Folder1\Data\M1 and c:\Folder2\Data\M1 because you would get an ambiguity
if the two M1 folders contained files with identical names. However, you
could use linkd.exe to create two junctions like so:

C:\Test>dir \\pegasus\c$\test

Directory of \\pegasus\c$\test

Tue 22/09/2009 19:08 <DIR> .
Tue 22/09/2009 19:08 <DIR> ..
Tue 22/09/2009 19:05 <JUNCTION> DriveD
Tue 22/09/2009 19:05 <JUNCTION> DriveE

The shared folder C$\Test contains two folders that point at completely
different locations, yet are accessible through the same share/folder name.