Share via

There is not enough disk space error.

Tevon2.0 1,106 Reputation points
2023-01-03T20:58:22.577+00:00

While attempting to perform a full farm back up I received the error below:
There is not enough disk space. Free additional space on your hard disk and then try again. Approximate amount of space needed: 200.37 GB. Amount of space free on disk: 1.38 GB.
What can I do to free up necessary disk space. If logs would be the easiest thing to clear, how would I go about deleting them? screen shots appreciated if possible

Azure Backup
Azure Backup
An Azure backup service that provides built-in management at scale.
1,490 questions
Microsoft 365 and Office SharePoint Server For business
Microsoft 365 and Office SharePoint Server Development
0 comments

1 answer

Sort by: Most helpful
Most helpful Newest Oldest
  1. Michael Taylor 60,161 Reputation points
    2023-01-03T21:05:48.153+00:00

    Getting the back up down from 200 GB to 1 GB would be a huge compression that I don't think is going to happen. Ultimately the backup size is going to be at least the size of your database data so take a look at your database files on disk. If it is greater than 1 GB then chances are you aren't going to get it to run no matter what you cut out.

    TBH 1 GB isn't much space on any machine, especially a server. I really think you should first consider running the disk cleanup tool in Windows to see if you have lots of temp files to clean up space. After that you probably still won't have room so you need to either consider adding more storage or backing up to something else. This machine seems like it is storage constrained to me.

    1 person found this answer helpful.

Your answer

Answers can be marked as Accepted Answers by the question author, which helps users to know the answer solved the author's problem.