He says before Moonwalk, the lab researchers could not access files off the tape archive. They would have to go to IT to restore the files. So he began archiving on CD and DVD, but there were thousands of disks with data that users had to go through to find files. Comeau found discs often were lost, mislabeled, and hard to index.
Running Moonwalk allows his researchers to call up files themselves without needing IT or having to go through optical storage or buy disk. They click the files on the Web-based interface and often don't know the data has been moved off to tape.
"We keep data and want to analyze it again and again and again," he says. "It has to be pulled back by a researcher or a student, not an admin. They click on a stub file, and Moonwalk pulls the files back. It's lightening fast."
Comeau says it took a bit of time for him to get his arms around the technology, but once it was installed it was easy for his users.
"It takes a little bit of understanding, a lot of reading and documenting and planning," he says. "But once you set it up, it works quite well. We're impressed with it." He also says Moonwalk was considerably cheaper than CaminoSoft, which is probably the most popular choice for migrating NetWare files.
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