Determining in which capacity extent an active chain resides

[EWMarco]

Hi there

We're having major issues with our S3 running full. That's mainly because we didn't deploy enough individual buckets/didn't make the buckets large enough. We would like to find the sweet spot of number of buckets to size (buckets 300TB and above are no longer manageable in our environment. We're currently at 120 TB).

What happened was buckets got filled up. We added more buckets but of course that triggers new chains to be started, generating a lot of additional data on S3. Is there a way to determine how many active chains reside on each bucket? If I could determine that, it would help balancing storage between buckets.

[Mildur]

Hi Marco

It's not possible in the UI. v12.1 has new official cmdlets to list all restore points available in the capacity tier. Unfortunately they don't provide you with the extend.
I have now asked a colleague from our automation team (PowerShell) if we have unofficial cmdlets.

Best,
Fabian

[oleg.feoktistov]

Hi Marco,

Not possible with the supported cmdlets, but here is the unsupported workaround example on how to get backup files / extents associations:

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$backup = Get-VBRBackup -Name 'Backup Job 1'
$storages = $backup.GetAllChildrenStorages()
foreach ($storage in $storages) {
  $association = [Veeam.Backup.DBManager.CDBManager]::Instance.StorageExtentAssociations.GetByStorageId($storage.Id)
  $association
}

You can go from here and then build a report for the whole chains.

Best regards,
Oleg