Avamar: Capacity General Training - Resolution Path

This is a list of all general initial capacity training and various other issues that have been documented.

For Capacity troubleshooting and solutions, see:  Avamar: Capacity Troubleshooting, Issues, and Questions - All Capacity (Resolution Path)

The remaining articles listed below DO NOT provide troubleshooting steps or solutions, only training and understanding for the Capacity concepts.

• Avamar: Capacity Management Concepts and Training
• Avamar: How to query capacity usage using command line
• Avamar: How to manage capacity with the capacity.sh script
• Avamar: The hard limit (quota) may not be enforced for backups which complete quickly

• Also, see the "Dell Avamar Operational Best Practices" specific to the Avamar version for more information about Capacity and Garbage Collection.
  • Examples from this guide include:
    • "Set the minimum retention period to at least 14 days": 
      This is specified for reasons: Not accidentally losing all backups during any problems and also because very low retentions can increase the Avamar server utilization change-rate (and OS Capacity).
    • "Steady state system" discussions
    • "Avamar capacity thresholds"

• Avamar: Space reclamation process Part 1: Garbage Collection
• Avamar: Space reclamation process Part 2: Crunching
• Avamar: Space reclamation process Part 3:  The Remove Checkpoint Process (RMCP)

• Avamar: Cannot select /REPLICATE when running a backend capacity report
• Avamar: How to run a backend capacity report on the /REPLICATE domain

• Metadata Capacity Reporting and Monitoring
• Avamar: Metadata Capacity Resolution Path

• Avamar: Introduction of TotalBytes, ModReduced, ModNotSentand ModSent in the DPN Summary
• Avamar: Understanding the "Data protected" value in Avamar Administrator