Mommadeez4u
12-06-2007, 09:06 AM
Ok, here's the deal as outlined by a good friend of mine:
There's a situation where I work, we're trying to migrate all the data from the old servers owned by the company in which this company spun off from to the new servers here. It's very messy and very disorganized and there are are a lot of duplicate files which we plan on cleaning up with a program that scans for them. The problem is that this is a common drive and nobody knows who the files belong to, it's quite ubiquitous and everyone has something stored somewhere. It would be an 18 month project just to clean it up and organize it all.
I was trying to think of ways to create incentives so that all the users would want to come in and organize their own files themselves, that way it gets done quickly and saves a ton of time and money. Since it is a common drive I don't think quotas are possible, what would be some good ideas in this situation? I've thought about it for a while now and can't seem to come up with anything that works very effectively. Was hoping that someone else had already faced this problem before and already knew of something that would work.
If anyone has any methods, tools, or people who could help facilitate this stuff (outside of creating incentives for the actual employees doing the sorting themselves) they would be really appreciated.
Dave
There's a situation where I work, we're trying to migrate all the data from the old servers owned by the company in which this company spun off from to the new servers here. It's very messy and very disorganized and there are are a lot of duplicate files which we plan on cleaning up with a program that scans for them. The problem is that this is a common drive and nobody knows who the files belong to, it's quite ubiquitous and everyone has something stored somewhere. It would be an 18 month project just to clean it up and organize it all.
I was trying to think of ways to create incentives so that all the users would want to come in and organize their own files themselves, that way it gets done quickly and saves a ton of time and money. Since it is a common drive I don't think quotas are possible, what would be some good ideas in this situation? I've thought about it for a while now and can't seem to come up with anything that works very effectively. Was hoping that someone else had already faced this problem before and already knew of something that would work.
If anyone has any methods, tools, or people who could help facilitate this stuff (outside of creating incentives for the actual employees doing the sorting themselves) they would be really appreciated.
Dave