what is a good way to calculate how much storage space has been taken up?

[joe_ferrer]

what is a good way to calculate how much storage space has been taken up?

[John_Anderson4]

Taken up by what? OnBase files as a whole? A certain document type? Disk group? The OnBase database?

[Jim_Dimmick]

Joe,

There are two primary components to OnBase storage, Database and disk groups. Database space can be provided by the database administrator. He or she can look at the database or, look at the database server partitions and tell you what space is used by the database.

OnBase disk group size can either be calculated by a database query of OnBase volume sizes or, can be provided by a server administrator who can look at the file server or storage shares. The most automated method for looking at OnBase disk group sizes is to run a Disk group report.

Regards

[Judi_Hebrank]

We are running the document retention module, and I notice on the disk group report, it still shows volume information for volumes that have been deleted by retention.  Does document retention update the 'kb used' once everthing has been purged and scrubed? The report doesn't seem to get updated by deletions, only be additions.

[Jeff_Stoner]

Hi Judi -

The "space used" value in the database is not updated once the volume is closed so any reports using this value may be inaccurate. Here is a link to a post that discusses calculating actual volume sizes.

https://www.onbase.com/community/technical_communities/tech/f/11241/p/17086/34094.aspx#34094

Hope that helps,
-jeff