Hello everyone,

I've been working lately with Windows Server 2008 RTM version, and I
promoted one server (virtual machine) as a DC. After having some obstacles
configuring the AD system state backup I finally completed and I had a
schedule backup running periodically.

That backup storage is made on a seconday disk on the DC, but I found out
that the system state backup catalog it's getting real big in a few weeks,
meaning that the VM disk is increasing as well (over 25gb right now).

Is there any way that I can have more control about that? Like accessing
the system state catalog and removing old system state backups? Basically I
don't want to get to the point where I have virtual disks over 200gb :)

Thanks!


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augusto alvarez | it pro | southworks
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Re: AD system state backup on Windows 2008, disk size increasing by Augusto

Augusto
Wed May 07 05:47:55 PDT 2008

I joust found it :)

"wbadmin delete systemstatebackup -backupTarget:[drive]: -deleteOldest"

Running this periodically I can retain only the latest system backups.

Cheers!

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augusto alvarez | it pro | southworks
http://staff.southworks.net/aalvarez


"Augusto Alvarez" <augusto.alvarez82@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello everyone,
>
> I've been working lately with Windows Server 2008 RTM version, and I
> promoted one server (virtual machine) as a DC. After having some obstacles
> configuring the AD system state backup I finally completed and I had a
> schedule backup running periodically.
>
> That backup storage is made on a seconday disk on the DC, but I found out
> that the system state backup catalog it's getting real big in a few weeks,
> meaning that the VM disk is increasing as well (over 25gb right now).
>
> Is there any way that I can have more control about that? Like accessing
> the system state catalog and removing old system state backups? Basically
> I don't want to get to the point where I have virtual disks over 200gb :)
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> --
> augusto alvarez | it pro | southworks
> http://staff.southworks.net/aalvarez
>
>