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What Desktop Search Engine For a Shared Volume?

Posted by timothy on from the which-side-of-the-firewall dept.

kriston writes 'Searching data on a shared volume is tedious. If I try to use a Windows desktop search engine on a volume with hundreds of gigabytes the indexing process takes days and the search results are slow and unsatisfying. I'm thinking of an agent that runs on the server that regularly indexes and talks to the desktop machines running the search interface. How do you integrate your desktop search application with your remote file server without forcing each desktop to index the hundred gigabyte volume on its own?'

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  1. Google Enterprise Search by HeavyD14 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Not that I've ever used it before, but it sounds like it does what you want: http://www.google.com/enterprise/search/gsa.html

  2. solution to hundreds of terabytes of docs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    how about using a program like Documentum? We generate several thousand technical documents and drawing a month, and use it for all our document management needs.

  3. Use MSS 2008 Express, SharePoint, FAST by VTBlue · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Use Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express...its free, all you need is a free server box. Also Check out SharePoint Search and FAST enterprise search.
    http://www.microsoft.com/enterprisesearch

  4. You don't by saleenS281 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You don't allow every client to index. There's been several suggestions already, but most enterprises intentionally DISABLE desktop search. It absolutely slaughters the share. It's not a big deal when one user is doing it... but when 5,000 are, the I/O load becomes unsustainable.

  5. Try Earth by theritz · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "Earth allows you to find files across a large network of machines and track disk usage in real time. It consists of a daemon that indexes file systems in real time and reports all the changes back to a central database. This can then be queried through a simple, yet powerful, web interface. Think of it like Spotlight or Beagle but operating system independent with a central database for multiple machines with a web application that allows novel ways of exploring your data." http://open.rsp.com.au/projects/earth

  6. Re:A couple of options by popeyecu · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I got your back. I love Federated Search, and so do my clients. It's way easier than any other solution, because it's in Windows and it "Just Works." Try it before you bash it, /.

  7. Re:How about Spotlight? That works on shared volum by kuzb · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Except then you have another terrible search solution which isn't meant for the amount of data you'd find on a large server. Worse, you have an operating system that is terrible as a server solution.

    On the other hand, you could just use a unix/linux distro of your choice, and beagle (http://beagle-project.org) - which is meant for indexing large amounts of data and has many clients some of which can remotely access it.

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    BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.