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Can somebody (probably Sandeep) tell me how to free up backup space taken by client computers in SBS2011. The volume that has AC is on is about 400GB of which 300GB is taken up by client backups! (and is now full) I have removed most clients from backup list and reconfigured the remaining few clients to only backup data directories.

But the space used does not re-adjust. Does this happen at the next scheduled backup?

Also, how do I know the server is not being backup'd twice (as a client and under the server backup application).

Thank you in advance for your help.

Found my answer.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/delete-client-backup-database-1.aspx

I don't know anything about the client backup service on SBS 2011, so I am not the one to answer this question. It looks as though you have found your answer.

My only question is if you wanted to delete the old client backups, could you have just formated that partition? Just wondering.

Also, your system drive has only 12GBs of space left on it. You may have to grab some space from the D:\ drive anyway. I started with 60GBs once. I had to change to 250GBs. I started getting nervous about updates, etc.

As far as backing up client backups with the server backup, I am not quite sure what your question is as the server is not a client. But, if you do a complete backup of your server, then it will also back up your client backups. You could exclude them, but for a bare metal backup, it may want you to image the entire server. With incremental backups, it probably wouldn't matter, but I have always wondered if each client backup were a new folder.

Glad you found your answer.