What Desktop Search Engine For a Shared Volume? 232
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?'
Google Enterprise Search (Score:5, Interesting)
solution to hundreds of terabytes of docs (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.
Use MSS 2008 Express, SharePoint, FAST (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 [microsoft.com]
You don't (Score:3, Interesting)
Try Earth (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:A couple of options (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:How about Spotlight? That works on shared volum (Score:3, 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.