That's what I was thinking as well with using the remote storage directly, I just don't know if the performance would be good enough over CIFS for it to be usable for search/reporting. (All of the LEM archive/backup stuff is CIFS-driven currently.) Right now it's all expected to be on disk, but since the files are self-contained it's much more technically possible than with a relational database. That also means, though, that we could pull over selective archives, which is kind of a middle ground - you still pull them back to the appliance, but you only pull the dates you need.
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