Two things have helped in our configuration:
1) Setting volume to Auto recycle mode - this helped clean-up older
savesets, reducing files+dirs count
2) Removal of older but empty directories on this NAS Share (networker
AFTD volume) -- is this OK to do ?
3) Removal of VSS subsets (save operations configuring VSS to off) for non-
critical servers. This saves 4-5 savesets/server per day;
Thanks
Sri
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:24:40 -0400, Sree wrote:
>Folks:
>
>Running Networker 7.6 on Windows Server 2003;
>
>We have a NAS/Share from HP D2D 2504i - which apparently has a limitation
>of maximum of 25000 Files+Directories count (on a single share):
>
>"The HP D2D Backup System imposes a limit on the number of files that can
>be stored on each NAS share. The limit is 25000 files, which provides the
>ability to protect a large amount of data using a backup application. The
>limit is imposed in order to allow efficient use of data replication.”
>
>We've looked at the share, it had just exceeded 25000 files:
>Total Files : 10640
>Total Dirs : 14361
>
>Now, no new Writes are being permitted by D2D to that share. (Ofcourse, we
>could create a new backup-share on D2D (consider it as a new root dir),
>and D2D allows full access to this newly created share.
>
>How can we possibly clean-up our original adv_file share via Networker, to
>go below the 25000 files+dirs D2D-device limit ?
>
>We have saved a total of 5317 savesets over the last 9 weeks of Networker
>backups("retention").
>
>Also noticed that Netwroker's directory structure is:
>Main-level Dirs: 00,01 .. thru .. 98,99 (100 dirs).
>Under each of these 00, 01 etc dirs, there are subdir-tree from 00-thru-
99.
>Some of those leaf dirs have "notes" directory" 00->00->notes, and/or a
>long file: "31ffccc9-00000006-3f3b6aec-4e3b6aec-03c2c11c-c8d026de"
>
>So, I can count 100 * 100 ~ approximately: 10000 dirs PLUS this "notes"
>sub-dirs, and/or some of those long-named files.
>
>We sure are bumping into 25000 imposed limit. How we can address this
>problem? Great ideas Welcome !
>
>Thanks
>Sree
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