• State Verified Answer
  • Locked Locked
  • Replies 15 replies
  • Subscribers 28 subscribers
  • Views 17228 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
Related
This discussion has been locked.
You can no longer post new replies to this discussion. If you have a question you can start a new discussion

Repository growing faster than anticipated

davidc
over 7 years ago

Our repository is growing faster than anticipated.  I'm curious if there are any tools / methods available to try to get a grip on why...?  It could be deduplication not working as well as desired, or repository cleanup not actually cleaning up, or I simply may need to add additional storage.  I'd like to be able to investigate before adding more storage.

We have a 10 GB dedup cache on a backup/core server with 32 GB of memory.

We are running RR 6.0.2.144.  The core is Windows 2008 R2 Std.  We have approximately 14 TB of usable storage for RR on a SAN, and it is currently using 10.5 TB and growing at a rate of about 1 TB per month.

I have tried Repository Optimization.  Unfortunately, it runs incredibly slow and consumes pretty much all resources for RR during its run, causing backups/rollups/checks to take so long that they fail.  I'd be willing to pause everything for an Optimization task, if it could complete over a holiday weekend.  Unfortunately, in two days it will complete less than 10% of an optimization job.  I simply cannot halt all backups for a month (or more) for it to run an optimization. 

I'd also like to track repository usage over time.  Is there any log showing that, so that I do not have to manually keep a written log of repository usage?

 

Thank you

Parents
  • 0 over 7 years ago
    I tried an Optimize job over a weekend a couple months ago. I would not have minded how painfully slow it ran, if it had not caused all other tasks to take 10x longer, to the point where some were simply timing out. There was no way I could allow that to run during business hours in a production environment.

    If I update the 2008 R2 server license to Enterprise and add some memory, you're confident it will allow me to safely run an Optimize job?
Reply
  • 0 over 7 years ago
    I tried an Optimize job over a weekend a couple months ago. I would not have minded how painfully slow it ran, if it had not caused all other tasks to take 10x longer, to the point where some were simply timing out. There was no way I could allow that to run during business hours in a production environment.

    If I update the 2008 R2 server license to Enterprise and add some memory, you're confident it will allow me to safely run an Optimize job?
Children
No Data