[OpenIndiana-discuss] Disk Space Disappearing.

[Nikola M.]

On 07/31/14 06:34 AM, Dormition Skete (Hotmail) wrote:
> On Jul 30, 2014, at 10:18 PM, Timothy Coalson <tsc5yc at mst.edu> wrote:
>> They stand out because USEDSNAP is almost as much as USEDDS, suggesting a
>> fair amount of dead weight to free up.
>>
> Well, that dead weight is probably those .tgz backups I make every night.  They take up a lot of space, but boy I sure have had to restore from them more times than I want to remember through the years.
>
You might put those tgz (I suppose application) backups and those 
archives mounted on separate zfs dataset.
That way you may snapshot them separately and control how much space 
they use and how far in history you want them snapshotted.
It would be also wise to migrate to bigger disks if you often are left 
with no space.