My storage-tracker has a year and a half worth of data in it. Last night we processed the winter-quarter student deletes. It did drop the student data a bit, but not anywhere near the level that the Fall delete did.
Chart here
The Fall delete happened about 11/20/05, and you can see the big hunk of space liberated by that action. Another thing of note is that the slope of the 'wuf-students' line is steeper than the Wuf-FacStaff line, so student data is growing faster that non-student data. But, thanks to regular user purges, overall growth is closer to normal.
The big anomaly of this summer on the facstaff line is due to the migration of three Shared volumes to one monolithic Shared volume. We were running in parallel for a while. What I found interesting is that the line either side of the big bump seems to match up well with growth patterns.
The Exchange line is pretty short as well. We're a bunch of quota-scrooges around here when it comes to mail, so mail growth is kept in check far better than file-storage. The mid-december blip is due to a realign of Exchange drives that the monitor didn't catch in time. The reallign also got rid of an annoying data-artifact we had; about 20GB of space on one Exchange drive was flagged (in error) bad-cluster, and this reported as 'used data'.
Chart here
The Fall delete happened about 11/20/05, and you can see the big hunk of space liberated by that action. Another thing of note is that the slope of the 'wuf-students' line is steeper than the Wuf-FacStaff line, so student data is growing faster that non-student data. But, thanks to regular user purges, overall growth is closer to normal.
The big anomaly of this summer on the facstaff line is due to the migration of three Shared volumes to one monolithic Shared volume. We were running in parallel for a while. What I found interesting is that the line either side of the big bump seems to match up well with growth patterns.
The Exchange line is pretty short as well. We're a bunch of quota-scrooges around here when it comes to mail, so mail growth is kept in check far better than file-storage. The mid-december blip is due to a realign of Exchange drives that the monitor didn't catch in time. The reallign also got rid of an annoying data-artifact we had; about 20GB of space on one Exchange drive was flagged (in error) bad-cluster, and this reported as 'used data'.