08-28-2014 03:12 AM
My storage disk is almost full and the backups hasn't reach it retention period.
How can i expire a job on backup exec 2014 to free space inside my storage disk?
Thanks
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09-05-2014 06:30 AM
Do you have enough space for the removals in our staging directory?
Garbage removal happens once every two weeks from the deduplication store. If you want to attempt to manually kick off the garbage collection process, here is the procedure:
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH192557
To expand your deduplication store, you just have to expand the volume it resides on in windows.
09-03-2014 08:11 AM
Go into the storage and expand/open teh details until you can right click an old "backup set" and select expire
It might give a pop up a message saying it is linked to other sets which you will need to read and make a decision against
If the expire is commited the set may disappear immediately or may take up to 4 hours
09-05-2014 02:39 AM
The backup set disappear immediately but not effect at the storage end.
what else do you suggest i should do?
09-05-2014 03:14 AM
easiest solution = expand your storage disk.
Are you using a deduplication disk or a native B2D folder?
regards
09-05-2014 04:55 AM
Am using a dedupe disk.
do you mean i should expand the storage on backup exec console or how do you mean?
09-05-2014 05:14 AM
freeing spece on a dedupe vollume is not as easy.
because a dedupe volume is storing only unique data. So if you are expiring a lot of backups, and 98% of these backup-pieces are not unique, they will not create free space on your storage.
some extra questions for your storage expansion:
- is your dedupe located on local server disks? or on network storage?
if it is located on network storage, simply expand these storage, after this you will be able to expand your disk on windows level (right click on my computer - select manage - disks) these changes will be visible in backupexec immidiately.
regards
09-05-2014 06:30 AM
Do you have enough space for the removals in our staging directory?
Garbage removal happens once every two weeks from the deduplication store. If you want to attempt to manually kick off the garbage collection process, here is the procedure:
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH192557
To expand your deduplication store, you just have to expand the volume it resides on in windows.
09-05-2014 08:46 AM
09-05-2014 08:59 AM
Hrm, I don't exactly know where I got two weeks from, apologies.