Greetings,

I've got a situation where a backup relationship does a nightly backup and a weekly backup.  Both go to the same destination.  The snapshots are named with the _nightly and _weekly tags.  This is file system data and not luns.  The problem is not fractional reserve :-)

I'm assuming the snapshots are still based on one another and each doesn't have it's own baseline.  Is this correct?

The problem is someone at a remote site appears to have done a drag and drop which generated ~2 TB of "new" data.  The remote site has a very limited WAN.  The completion of the current backup session will run for ~2 month before it completes.  If I have to do a new baseline, it will also take about that long.

Since the snapshots got out of hand, it caused the file system to grow beyond the designated size the volume guarantee has been disabled, and it actually filled up the containing aggregate.  

I'm hoping to be able to delete one of the SV snapvaults to free space and get things in line space wise.  Unfortunately I'm expecting I'll still have to let a 2 month backup run one way or another.  If I'll end up with a new baseline anyway, I may as well nuke everything now and start it.  At least I'll be able to delete some snapshots and free space.

Thanks,

Jeff

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Jeff Cleverley
IT Engineer

4380 Ziegler Road
Fort Collins, Colorado 80525
970-288-4611