rausch Posted October 1, 2008 Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 I have a File Backup Set on a 2TB volume that has filled up. I did a Recycle backup, and after the first run it was back to the full size of the volume (minus 40GB). It hadn't copied more than 500GB. What's going on? Does a Recycle only reset the Snapshots for the volumes in the Recycle run? Is there a way to reclaim ALL of the disk space other than to forget the backup set, delete it and create a new one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted October 1, 2008 Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 Does a Recycle only reset the Snapshots for the volumes in the Recycle run? No, when you Recycle a File Backup Set, it empties out all the contents, resulting in a small pair of files on disk (foo & foo.cat). How did you perform the Recycle? As part of a Schedule in a Script? Or manually in Configure->BackupSets->Configure->Foo->Options->Actions ? Did you observe the free space on your storage volume before running your next backup? Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rausch Posted October 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 Thanks for the reply Dave. No, when you Recycle a File Backup Set, it empties out all the contents, resulting in a small pair of files on disk (foo & foo.cat). I am aware that this is the expected behavior, but I'm not seeing it in a specific circumstance. I was wondering if there was something about a very large File Backup Set, or some other circumstance were it wouldn't do this. How did you perform the Recycle? As part of a Schedule in a Script? Or manually in Configure->BackupSets->Configure->Foo->Options->Actions ? I normally script them and they run on a schedule. The set filled up early, and this most recent event was selecting a script from under the Run menu, changing the type to Recycle, and clicking Execute. Did you observe the free space on your storage volume before running your next backup? It was unchanged from the amount before running the recycle, but the recycle script completed without error and backed up 465GB. Some config info: Mac OS X Server 10.4.11, 3.5GB RAM, XServe G5, Backup disk is an eSATA software RAID 0 2TB volume, Retrospect 6.1.230 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rausch Posted October 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 False alarm. After a crash that corrupted a set, the replacement set had been saved to another (smaller) location. Confusingly similar modification dates prolonged my failure to detect this. All better now. Thanks for your attention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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