Hello,
I received an notification for low space on my off-site repo and when looking at the backup files was surprised to see
2x VBK's for each month-end
3x VBK's for each week-end
3x VBK's for the most recent year-end (2020) + 2x VBK's for the previous year-end
Storage is ReFS. Screenshot below shows all backup files of a particular server, but this is affecting all servers.
https://i.imgur.com/D18bpbw.png
My Backup Copy job is configured to run everyday (copies the last 10 restore points from on-site repo), then keep the last 4 weekly, 12 monthly and 20 yearly backups.
Shall I open a case, or is the answer much more obvious?
Thanks in advance.
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Re: GFS: multiple month-end backups
Hi Michael, we do not know the job schedule and other configuration options, however, the fact that you have several, say, weekly full backups for the same server dated by the same day with a few minutes between them looks unexpected to me. I'd ask our engineers for a closer look.
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Re: GFS: multiple month-end backups
While it is clearly some problem that needs to be investigated, referring to the disk space issue specifically I wanted to remind that synthetic full backups don't take any physical disk space on ReFS.
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Re: GFS: multiple month-end backups
Thanks. I appreciate these backups may only be taking up negligible space due to ReFS, but wouldn't have checked without the notification of low space. Support case created #04596953
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