HBS just giving Weird Numbers

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I think HBS in its current version has problems. I just completed a first time backup of my main NAS to my secondary NAS. I had to do this because after I redid my secondary NAS, I just could not copy/restore the snapshot I had vaulted to my primary NAS. It was just reporting as HUGE. I think this is an error in the HBS database.

Anyhow, after this first time backup to an empty folder on the secondary NAS, this is what HBS shows:

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How can I possibly be taking up 14TB of space on the secondary NAS when the data set was 4.3TB?? Please tell me the answer to that question!

And when I got to the secondary NAS and look at the space of the folder where I have the backups, I get:

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So QuTS Here is doing some size reduction with compression and deduplication:

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There seems to be a missing 200GB somewhere so not sure why that is but at least what the OS is reporting is close to what was backed up and not like HBS.

@SteveKo - Please report this to your team. This needs to be fixed. This is not good.

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OK. Maybe I’m jumping to conclusions here. The 14TB on the second NAS is the total of what’s in use on that NAS. And that number must include snapshots as well because looking at the total of all my shared folders does not equate to 14TB.

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So I’ve really got about 7TB actual data yet the system is reporting 14TB. It is pretty impressive that I’m getting a 30% reduction in data due to inline compression and deduplication.

But does this include snapshots? If not, then there’s definitely something funky going on with how sizes are calculated…

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Okay, I will pass this issue on to our internal team for them to look into. Thanks!

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