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RhoSysAdmin
Level 5
15 years ago

(Urgent) Insufficient disk space on C:\, cannot restart EV

We just enabled EV for our users two nights ago, as well as for our file shares.  The first night the C:\ drive on my EV server ran out of disk space and EV shutdown.  I was able to free up a fee GB o...
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    RhoSysAdmin
    15 years ago
    I did search, and I did see postings about turning off monitoring, but didn't like the idea of the C:\ drive filling up on my server.  I don't think it's a good idea to ever let the C:\ drive fill up, even if it's only temporary.  I contacted technical support and they gave me another option, which as to change %TEMP% and %TMP% to another drive w/ more space.  They also pointed me to a registry key to shorten the window for purging the .TMP files:

    "DelFilesOlderThanHours" as a DWORD within HKLM\Software\KVS\Enterprise Vault\AdminService

    I went that route.  Thank's for confirming option 1.  I may still need it down the road.

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RhoSysAdmin
Level 5
15 years ago
I did search, and I did see postings about turning off monitoring, but didn't like the idea of the C:\ drive filling up on my server.  I don't think it's a good idea to ever let the C:\ drive fill up, even if it's only temporary.  I contacted technical support and they gave me another option, which as to change %TEMP% and %TMP% to another drive w/ more space.  They also pointed me to a registry key to shorten the window for purging the .TMP files:

"DelFilesOlderThanHours" as a DWORD within HKLM\Software\KVS\Enterprise Vault\AdminService

I went that route.  Thank's for confirming option 1.  I may still need it down the road.