Hello John,
It is difficult to asses how much space an archive uses. There are some queries on the forum that will show the number of items and the size of the archive. I am not totally sure about the 'size of the archive'. If you use SIS, an archive might actually be smaller I believe.
If I recall correct, some of the queries allow setting a date-range, which would allow some sort of educated guess to set expiry.
I used the attached Powershell to check the fysical disks for size and occupation. (found that via Google)
there are some parameters you need to adjust.$ifile = (Get-location).path + "\domain.txt" where doman.txt containes the servernames that have the disks attached.
Name like '%IndexFOLDERNAME%' looks at folders that are like this entry, and have the indexes. In my environment, this would be something like '%EVINDEX%
Name like '%StorageFolderName%' same, but then for data-location. for me, this would be something like %EVStorage%
It generates an HTML file, which can be copied/pasted in Excel. I used this to prove weekly growth, and the need to add more storage.
Rename the file to ps1, that should do the trick
Regards. Gertjan
