one or more drive ports 322 in further embodiments the network storage system 302 comprises an archival management system 310 the archival management system 310 receives data for archiving from one or more systems on the network 304 further the archival management system 310 determines to which system or removable disk drive 324 the data should be archived in which format the data should be saved and how to provide security for the network storage system 302 in embodiments the archival management system 310 provides a partitioned archive such that the network storage system 302 appears to be an independent file system to each separate application server 306 yet maintains the archive for multiple application servers 306 thus the archival management system 310 manages the network storage system 302 as multiple independent file systems for one or more application servers 306 in embodiments the archival management system 310 and the archiving system 312 are functional components of the archiving system appliance 210 fig2 in embodiments the archival management system 310 saves archival data to both the archiving system 312 and an active archive 314 the active archive 314 in embodiments controls reads from and writes to one or more fixed storage devices 316 that allow easier access to archived data in embodiments fixed storage 316 is similar in function to fixed storage 216 fig2 the active archive 314 performs similar functions to the archiving system 312 but for the fixed storage devices 316 in embodiments the.