Dedupe: Verify Garbage Collection is performed regularly on Data Deduplication volumes

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Operating System	Windows Server 2012
Product/Feature	Data Deduplication
Severity	Informational
Category	Configuration

 

Issue

Garbage Collection has not been performed for a month, failed, or was cancelled the last time it ran on one or more volumes.

 

Impact

Data deduplication Garbage Collection did not complete successfully for over a month. As a result, data deduplication cannot reclaim space referenced by deleted or modified files.

 

Resolution

Create a Garbage Collection job to run weekly or bi-weekly during server idle times. If the last Garbage Collection job did not complete successfully, review the event logs to determine cause of failure and re-run Garbage Collection manually using Windows PowerShell.

 

Additional references

[[Data Deduplication Overview]]