Reclaim Deduplicated Space on a Server 2012 Server

[paps40]

Hello. I have a server 2012 veeam backup server that has been storing our Veeam Backups for the past 9 months. That backup archive volume is 26TB which now only has 3 TB available. We were able to achieve a 73% deduplication rate.
Our weekly full backups are 4 TB so we are now out of space. I have gone through and deleted 4 months of backups but since they are deduplicated I don't get the space savings back that I thought I was going to get.

I have stopped the current running deduplication job until I can fix this issue. I have ran the full and basic garbage collection jobs but have been unable to reclaim enough space to store new backups. It only freed up about 2 TB or so.

Start-DedupJob -Type GarbageCollection -full -Memory 85 -Priority High -Volume A:

Does anyone know how I can reclaim space on a deduplicated volume?

Thanks,

Peter

[foggy]

Peter, you may want to perform scrubbing as well. However, I would rather ask on TechNet forums, looks like a better place to ask this sort of questions. Thanks.

[paps40]

Scrubbing won't help but thanks anyways. I just posted something on technet.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/for ... f=required

Peter

[foggy]

I can see that you've asked a bit different questions there. Probably this discussion will be helpful as well.