System volume information space filling up windows shadow copy settings set to no limit
There is a trick to clean it up but wondering why?
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System volume information space filling up windows shadow copy settings
+1Best answer by Damian Andre
If system state is enabled then persistent shadow copies are created - otherwise non-persistent is created. If something in interrupting the job then perhaps VSS shadow storage would not be cleaned up, however I’m pretty sure the filescan process will check and clear any stale VSS snapshots we create.
Its unlikely that Commvault VSS snaps are the cause of the storage running out because shadow copies are not cleaned up - but you can identify the shadow ID in the filescan.log file for the job and see if that matches up to what you are seeing consume all the space.
+23- Vaulter
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If system state is enabled then persistent shadow copies are created - otherwise non-persistent is created. If something in interrupting the job then perhaps VSS shadow storage would not be cleaned up, however I’m pretty sure the filescan process will check and clear any stale VSS snapshots we create.
Its unlikely that Commvault VSS snaps are the cause of the storage running out because shadow copies are not cleaned up - but you can identify the shadow ID in the filescan.log file for the job and see if that matches up to what you are seeing consume all the space.
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+23- Vaulter
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Might be worth creating a support case here.
+23- Vaulter
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Appreciate the update. Let’s give it another week before marking this as ‘solved’, though you can update the thread at any time after and I’ll be able to unmark it 🤓
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