Good way to determine backup size of multiple PCs?

[Velvis]

I have a client with about 20 PCs that are not backed up. (only the server is).

Short of logging into each PC and manually determining how big their documents folder is, is there a way to automate is some how?

 

[TAPtech]

No RMM tool?

 

[Velvis]

Comodo One

 

[Markverhyden]

I'd think you should be able to get that info with Comodo. But the big question is what kind of backup? Depending on the type of business a full restorable image could be several times the size of the data backup.

 

[Velvis]

I dont think they want a full restorable back up for each computer.

 

[Markverhyden]

What is the type of business?

 

[Sky-Knight]

This is what redirected profiles are for, get all those desktops and my docs on the server, and backup the servers.

I don't backup workstations, period.

 

[Velvis]

This is what redirected profiles are for, get all those desktops and my docs on the server, and backup the servers.

I don't backup workstations, period.

That's ideal. I want to see how much is there to be backed up as easy as possible.

The server is old and does not have enough hard drive space so we may add a drive or get a new server.

So I was just hoping for a quick way to determine what's currently in use.


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[Sky-Knight]

Honestly, I don't have a great way of doing that short of going to each station. If it's a domain, and you can remote to the server you can get into each station via the c$ share, and get sizes on the user folder that lives on the station. But even then, things get strange. The last office I did this to I estimated 10gb per station for storage, and I ended up needing 4! They also converted from Godaddy pop3 to Office 365, so all that PST data was gone, which is in my docs!

Oh and if you have PSTs, Heaven help you because they cannot be in a replicated and redirected folder.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Like Mark said...depends which type of backup (some compress better than others), and gather info from your RMM...most should tell you total volume size as well as how much currently used. Add to this...how much space you need for retention periods, and again what type of back you use..and how well it does incrementals/inverse chain/changed blocks only

For projection/planning I usually go for 2.5x total volume size if you're doing image backups. Could use the 2.5 multiplier for selected data only too...allowing some versioning to remain intact.