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We originally purchased 83TB for File & Object Storage. We originally had 12 file servers on a plan that was “daily for 30, and monthly for 365 days”. 

We are currently decommissioning all file servers (5 so far) and have migrated to Object Storage with Azure Storage Accounts. This is duplicating our storage quota, and we have now exceeded our purchased 83TB’s by 141% with File & Object Storage sitting at 116.3TB. 

So, currently with the 5 serves that are offline, I have unassociated the plan, and set the Server to not back up, and retired the server. But this will hold the backups till the retention period of 365days is met, then the data will delete. We are also holding onto the SAN and the old servers encase we need to powerup and access a server in a worst-case scenario for the year. 

If I delete the server, then all the data in retention will be deleted as well. and we want to be able to restore anything if we come across a file problem. 

Is there a way to reduce or delete the amount of monthly’s that are retained, and just keep one month for the 365day retention period and let it attrition out?

Or can we move the retired data to cold storage or something to cut down on Usage or costs?   

Hello @Retiring File Servers 

 

Thanks for the question and details. 

Your Decom client should not be included in your usage: 

https://documentation.commvault.com/2023e/expert/backups_in_capacity_calculation.html

Jobs from deconfigured clients or agents: The deconfigured client releases the license and excludes its jobs from the measurement process. However, if the client is enabled again to run new backup jobs, then the jobs start counting towards the measurement process.


You will need to go into the licensing report to see what is add to it all and go from there. 
If you cannot find why it is so high then support would be the best next step as they will have a session and go over it all with you. 

 

Kind regards

Albert Williams

@Albert Williams 

Thanks Albert for the response. I did see that statement you posted, but something is still counting against the overall quota and increasing constantly, even though I’ve retired the servers as I configured the Object Storage. It seems the quota is not decreasing after retiring the server, and it has grown to 143% now. 

Anyway, I have submitted a Support Ticket, to gain access to Storage Policy to delete all old Jobs, and let the 1 year Retention play out. 

But when we feel good about our migration to Azure, and Metallic backups, etc. I’m just going to start deleting all the servers from Metallic which will delete the data. We still have the physical SAN where everything resides and will hold onto it for the next year, if there is a disaster.

We do have a scheduled Support call this week to review what is going on… I’ll post here what the finding was.   

 

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