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Freeing up disk space

Jezza

I'm on a Win2K3 and Sophos Enterprise Console 4.7.0.13. 

We're at 90% of disk space capacity on this server and I noticed that within

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Sophos\Update Manager\Update Manager\  

the CIDs and Warehouse folders are fairly large.

Within C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Sophos\Update Manager\

the Working folder is large as well.

I understand this is where the updates are stored but is there a way to archive or limit the retention of older updates?


Thanks in advance for your responses.

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    Hi,

    Are you able to add another drive to the machine?  That would give you a few options, for example, you could move the database data to it.  

    What size is your SOPHOS57.mdf and SOPHOS47_log.ldf files?

    You could run:

    sqlcmd -E -S .\sophos -Q "exec sp_helpdb sophos47"

    To help you identify the location of the files and size of your current SOPHOS47 database

    Also, If you've upgraded from previous version you no longer need to the old databases, for example SOPHOS4, SOPHOS45.  So you could drop those from the SQL instance in use. http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/17508.aspx

    In addition to that, if you're feeling brave, you could stop the Sophos Update Manager Service, create a new directory on a new drive called:

    "E:\Sophos\Update Manager \"

    for example and map them as a sym link:

    "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Sophos\Update Manager\"

    On 2003 you could use Junction:

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768

    to do this.  This approach will save changing any configuration as per http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/63186.aspx .

    Regards,

    Jak

    :24807
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    Hi,

    Are you able to add another drive to the machine?  That would give you a few options, for example, you could move the database data to it.  

    What size is your SOPHOS57.mdf and SOPHOS47_log.ldf files?

    You could run:

    sqlcmd -E -S .\sophos -Q "exec sp_helpdb sophos47"

    To help you identify the location of the files and size of your current SOPHOS47 database

    Also, If you've upgraded from previous version you no longer need to the old databases, for example SOPHOS4, SOPHOS45.  So you could drop those from the SQL instance in use. http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/17508.aspx

    In addition to that, if you're feeling brave, you could stop the Sophos Update Manager Service, create a new directory on a new drive called:

    "E:\Sophos\Update Manager \"

    for example and map them as a sym link:

    "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Sophos\Update Manager\"

    On 2003 you could use Junction:

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896768

    to do this.  This approach will save changing any configuration as per http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/63186.aspx .

    Regards,

    Jak

    :24807
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