Need to reclaim some space

Hi @r0lansaad 

I wouldn’t recommend deleting backup jobs for a couple of reasons.

1. You will reduce your ability to recover that data or limit the points in time that recovery can be performed back to.
2. With deduplication, what looks like a large backup job may in fact free up very little space in storage. Since unique blocks are referenced by other backup jobs, unless the data is unique, it won’t be removed from storage as other jobs may also be referencing the unique data.

If your storage is filling up, there are a few things to look for:

Is Data Aging and pruning configured and running as expected - sometimes pruning may get disabled to perform a particular task or temporarily reduce load on MAs and not get re-enabled. This could be on MAs or on a client group using additional settings.

Is retention configured correctly - are you keeping the right amount of data for your business needs?

Has client Application Data grown recently, maybe a gradual increase over a long time or a sudden growth spike has grown the data protected and pushed storage beyond it’s capacity. Growth and Trends report may help here.

Take a look at Library properties Disk Usage tab. This will show proportionally what amount of data is getting pruned over the last few days vs the amount of new data getting written. This will give an indication of whether new storage demand is greater than storage supply, provided by pruning.

For example:
 

You will want to see space freed keeping pace with space consumed, if the reverse happens with consumed ahead of freed, then the library will be on a trajectory to full.

Try those general principles and let me know if these reveal anything to check further.

Thanks,

Stuart