PS script to calculate the amount of data to be archived to object-store

[t481]

Hello,
I'm looking for some assistance with creating a script to calculate the amount of data that will be moved to object-store based on the number of days specified under the Capacity Tier. I need this to determine the amount of time it would take to archive data.

i'm familiar with PowerShell but by no means advanced. Happy to learn though.

Thank you in advance

[veremin]

The Capacity Tier works in ReFS-like fashion, meaning that already transferred block of backup chain are not transferred again (check indexes section).

So, it's impossible to determine how much data will be offloaded to object storage, before the offload session starts.

Thanks!

[oleg.feoktistov]

Even putting aside actual offload workflow, it would take extracting blocks from backups on performance tier first, getting blocks, which are already on capacity tier, comparing them and getting final size of all unique blocks found during comparison.
I don't think this scenario would work seamlessly with Powershell. From my experience, it's rather a job for C#. Thanks!

[chris.arceneaux]

@mzollmann and I are currently working on a script to estimate Capacity Tier offload size for a net new Capacity Tier configuration. To Vladimir and Oleg's point, it won't include block clone (deduplication) savings but it should give you a ballpark number to work with if you're not currently using Capacity Tier and are thinking about enabling it.

Once the script is ready, I'll follow-up and post a link to it in this thread. It should be complete within the next week or two.

[t481]

Thank you all very much.
@chris.arceneaux I look forward to using your script.

[soncscy]

Any way I could get in on this? My shop isn't a service provider or anything like that, but I'm PS curious.))

[chris.arceneaux]

Sure! When posted, the script will be accessible via GitHub and available to all.