Can anyone help with this - we run Retrospect backup to do client backups overnight. We do full recycle backups so we always have room on the tapes, and we've found it better to back up all files rather than being selective (clients leave files all over the place, and sometimes having system file backups has been really useful, so we take the lot).
Overall I'm quite happy with the performance and we get most clients backed up every night - however, the number of files on some OSX clients just seems to keep growing. Some are up to 170,000 files. My theory is that system upgrades may be the cause of this - with hard drive space being plentiful, is the system hanging on to redundant files rather than trashing them and freeing up the space?
All OSX clients leave their machines on constantly, so the OS has time to do it's housekeeping in terms of clearing out caches and other routine stuff.
Does anyone have any ideas on this, and if so could the number of files be safely reduced? We run OSX 10.3.x mostly, on a 100 baseT LAN.
Overall I'm quite happy with the performance and we get most clients backed up every night - however, the number of files on some OSX clients just seems to keep growing. Some are up to 170,000 files. My theory is that system upgrades may be the cause of this - with hard drive space being plentiful, is the system hanging on to redundant files rather than trashing them and freeing up the space?
All OSX clients leave their machines on constantly, so the OS has time to do it's housekeeping in terms of clearing out caches and other routine stuff.
Does anyone have any ideas on this, and if so could the number of files be safely reduced? We run OSX 10.3.x mostly, on a 100 baseT LAN.