Chandan wrote:
Hi,

I have a filesystem containing many media files such as JPEG, TIFF,
AVI in the mix. Some of these files are heavily edited by users. So,
if I configure hourly snapshots on this filesystem, these files end up
consuming a lot of snapshot space. Now, if I do not configure hourly
snapshots, I am increasing the window of vulnerability for data loss
for the non media files in the filesystem.

One solution that I can think of is to move the media files over to a
new filesystem and not configure hourly snapshots on it. This will
reduce spapshot disk space consumption.

Does anyone have some other interesting way to fix this problem ?

Might help if you described the environment a little more, i.e. storage
vendors, whose snapshot are you using etc. Some snapshots are more
inefficient than others.

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Nik Simpson