Hi.
I have inherited the job of sorting out the school curriculum backups. We are running Backup Exec 12 ver 14 rev 1798.
As it stands the storage disk that is being used has rached full capacity. From what I have read there is a mechanism which should overwrite older backups to circumvent this from happening. Unfortunately, I believe this jobs that were originally created may not have been set up correctly as at first glance they all mostly show retention periods of 5 weeks.
I have since adjusted these jobs to what I consider to be more ideal, a full week every sunday with 4 week retention alongside daily differential backups weekdays to be retained for 1 week.
The problem I am facing is that despite changing the jobs, I am still sitting at full capacity. I have read several pages and gone through to delete older backup sets (listed as containing several hundred GB's) yet my disk is still showing full.
I have explored the disk in question and see many .bkf files dating back which ideally need to be cleared to free up space. However I don't want to simply delete them as I don't know what impact this will have with Exec and it's catalogues.
Truth be told the whole think is quite a mess and wasn't managed particularly well and I want to correct it but obviously cannot afford to break any of the current (more recent backups). I'm sure most of the disk space is used up by duplicate backup content.
Any help is much appreciated as as it stands we're ongoing without any backup until it is resolved.
Regards
James
PS. Sorry if double post, can't seem to get these to post/show up.