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FJ1200
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9 years ago

BE2012 Dedupe Disk Full

Hi - Our 17TB dedupe disk is full and has a lot of very old expired backup sets of servers that were decommissioned 2 years ago.  I have spent 2 days reading through every available KB article and fo...
  • FJ1200's avatar
    9 years ago

    We are now in the process of proposing a 2015 upgrade so I'm hopeful we'll get a result.  In the meantime I have been running the dedupe cleardown manually, and do seem to be making progress - albeit painfully slowly.  The processes have taken several days to run and the garbage collection - running now - is going to take time.  Then will run the compression which should give me back 650GB at least according to dsstat.

    Many thanks for the advice given.