[Box Backup] Simple question about usage info

[Peter Jalajas, GigaLock Backup Services]

Hi Matt,

Note that Box can't really yet do what you are requesting (see the
Feature Requests page for things like snapshot and restore back to a
point in time).  You just need to make sure your "Soft limit" is well
above your "Used".

Note also that the "100%" of the chart below is a tad misleading.  You
were at 100% of your day-to-day quota (91%/90%=100+% of your soft
limit), so you were essentially burning up old and deleted files to
make room for your new files, even though the report says you were at
(only) "91%" Used.

(For me, I make the freeboard space between the soft limit and the
hard limit a couple of times larger than the largest file I expect to
upload (which is usually a 2GB Outlook.pst file), so I usually make
the hard limit 5-10GB higher than the day-to-day quota soft-limit that
I want to give a client.)

I hope that helps.

Thanks,
Pete

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Matt Brown <matt@mbrown.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> Q is ... how much overhead should you allow for Old and Deleted files - as
> in this case the file was not deleted. What is the priority Deleted files ?
> Can you reserve a certain amount of space for Old Files
>
> Before the limit increase:
>
>         Used    30982.9Mb  91% ************************************
>    Old files       42.0Mb   0%
> Deleted files     7380.6Mb  21% ********
>  Directories       36.8Mb   0%
>   Soft limit    30720.0Mb  90% ************************************
>   Hard limit    33792.0Mb 100% ****************************************