SOBR filling drives filling up

[blake.epperson]

we are backing up roughly 350 servers most of which contain multiple drives averaging about 2 drives that are 2 TB each. drives all together are using a little bit more than 1.25 PB of space on our storage. We built a backup SOBR repository with 3 850TB drives and we are running out of space on all of them. retention period for most of these is 30 days of backups (1 monthly, 4 weekly, and 3 a day for 7 days) Per the SOBR we are currently storing nearly 3PB of backup files. why are backups taking nearly 3 times the amount of space as the actual drives?

[Mildur]

Hi Blake

I suggest to open a support case, since we (RnD) have no access to your environment to confirm the situation and guessing something makes not much sense.
As mentioned in our forum policies, environmental issues always must be troubleshooted with support. I‘m positive that our support team will be able to assist you with an answer after seeing the job statistics and repository configuration in the logs.

Best,
Fabian

[mortenr]

I think the difference in capacity is due to backup compression. If you go to Home -> Backups -> Disk and open properties on one of your jobs, you will see 'Data Size' and 'Backup Size' listed for each backup. 'Data Size' likely being the data transferred to Veeam and 'Backup Size' being the size of the file on disk after compression. The 'Used Space' on your SOBR is likely a sum of the 'Data Size' for all backups, resulting in a larger number than the actual capacity.