Hi there,
So, asking for a friend, in the install directory for Portal there's a folder under <install dir>\backup\walarchive\ which seems to contain a backup file for every hour since it was installed. They've run out of disk space (each file is 16Mb, there's thousands of them), and it's now breaking their portal. So questions are (a) what is this backing up as there's a separate walarchive for the data store (i.e. it's not this one) and (b) how do you manage that backup? I've seen some stuff on managing the backup of the data store, but that doesn't seem to affect this backup?
I'm guessing it's ok to delete the older ones, but they would prefer no to have to keep going back to them over and over again...
Many thanks in advance
Dan
Those files exist to support incremental backups with the DR tool. Prior to running the DR tool to create a full backup, the directory is capped at 5 GB. Once you run the DR tool, that limit is removed. If you run the DR tool to create a new full backup, the directory will be cleaned out. We incorrectly assumed customers would run the DR tool at scheduled times, which would manage the size of the directory. Once the space is cleared up and Portal is back to working order, you can either run the DR tool on a scheduled task to create backups (recommended), or, if you're not going to run incremental backups, delete the backups manually.