[AusNOG] retroactively implementing file share quotas - eep :-p

[Jacob Bisby]

Would very much have to agree with this, seen far too many clients spend days, weeks, months (and in one case years), squabbling over storage space.

Unless there's a technical limitation preventing you from implementing more space (eg. Power supply limitations) then I would push right back for more space instead...

Jacob Bisby

From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Tim March
Sent: Wednesday, 13 February 2013 11:55 AM
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Subject: Re: [AusNOG] retroactively implementing file share quotas - eep :-p


Aren't you better off dropping $1,500 on a Synology/Netgear NAS with a bunch of  RAID5/6 7500RPM 2.5TB SATA3's in it and just giving them 7TB to duke it out over? Surely spending a couple of days screwing about squabbling over a couple of TB is more costly than just buying some storage.

2c




T.
On 13/02/13 2:11 PM, Shane Bryan wrote:
Hi all – hope you’re all enjoying a pleasant afternoon.
 
I’m looking to put Home Share quotas in place from our 2008 R2 file server. At least now you can do them down to the folder level (rather than volume level) but as I’m implementing them – in many cases, years – after they were first setup and given to the user, a ‘one size fits all’ solution won’t cut it.
 
Has anyone else attempted this? We have some users with 0kb in their Home Shares, all the way up to some people with 5, 8 or even 9Gb of files.
Currently we have all Home Share folders under one common folder shared out. What I’m contemplating doing is having some sub folders, eg;
 
Home Shares Root\Regular Home Shares (<1Gb)
Home Shares Root\Medium Home Shares (1Gb to 2Gb)
Home Shares Root\Large Home Shares (2Gb +)

(or some other naming structure, tbd) Of course this means we would have to update each users AD profile with the new share path(s) – not ideal.
 
Having a blanket\inheritable quota policy for the Home Shares under 1Gb meets the needs of about 400 of our users, leaving 40 or so with larger ones. For these heavier users I was contemplating having another 3 quota policies for the people up to 1.2Gb, 1.5Gb then 2Gb and on top of that for the final 20, having custom quota policies giving them an extra 100Mb or so on top of what they currently have.

It’s a bit of work, but the policies don’t take long to create. I also can’t create a 9Gb quota policy and apply it to a user that only has 5Gb of files, that would defeat the whole purpose of this so custom ones might just be the only option.
 
What this would do is give the light users plenty of space, but the heavy users at each level will start getting alerts and prompt them to clean unwanted stuff out.

If anyone of you learned ladies and gentlemen have implemented File Quotas into an existing setup, I’d love to hear any tips or war stories from the challenges you encoutered ☺

Cheers, Shane.
 




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