Steve21 Posted April 30, 2015 Posted April 30, 2015 If your whole shared area is on a seperate drive, just right click on it and go to quota tab. But if it's within a folder etc didn't think even Windows lets that. Steve
fiza Posted April 30, 2015 Posted April 30, 2015 If your whole shared area is on a seperate drive, just right click on it and go to quota tab. But if it's within a folder etc didn't think even Windows lets that. Steve All our shares on the same drive unfortunately.
fiza Posted April 30, 2015 Posted April 30, 2015 By the looks of it If I use FSRM then I can set quotas on users home drives : cannot go above 10GB I can set quotas on shared folders : cannot go above 100GB If I use disk quotas then I can quota users regardless of where they save. Each user gets 30GB. Some users get more.
tekins Posted April 30, 2015 Posted April 30, 2015 Show and tell please Most of these users are 6th formers, their base template has 28GB set, but a few have been upped, over-riding the template. The user I have open has been upped to 35GB 1
fiza Posted April 30, 2015 Posted April 30, 2015 Most of these users are 6th formers, their base template has 28GB set, but a few have been upped, over-riding the template. The user I have open has been upped to 35GB [ATTACH=CONFIG]30354[/ATTACH] Do you quota shared areas? As I said in my post above it looks like you can only do folder based quotas not user based.
tekins Posted April 30, 2015 Posted April 30, 2015 Ah, sorry, must read properly, shared areas, yes, it's I believe it's folder based only.
DanTheLacky Posted April 30, 2015 Posted April 30, 2015 We have a 8gb quota for staff, ran tree size today actually and all was under 6.5gb except the reprographics guy and people with stolen movies / the series of black adder
DavePa Posted April 30, 2015 Posted April 30, 2015 On topic: No limit for staff (they range between 0mb and 30gb) and 1gb for students although we are an FE college so little coursework is stored and only a few of them are using more than 100mb. Slightly off topic: Many moons ago (late 1990's) I was working for a commercial (not educational) company where we had a 50mb limit for our home drives...yep - 50mb in total! That included your email archive as well. It was a NetWare setup from memory and the servers had drive space totalling a couple of gb with RAM measured in mb and were based on 486 processors
timbo343 Posted April 30, 2015 Posted April 30, 2015 We quota all sorts, Staff Home drives (7Gb) some have a little bit more. Students vary from year 7 to 6th form from 175mb to 4.5gb. In the process of migrating all data over to VMs, Students on one server and staff now on another, shares and departmental shares on another VM file server. Year 7 - 175mb Year 8 - 200mb Year 9 - 350mb Year 10 - 400mb Year 11 - 500mb Year 12 - 3.5Gb Year 13 - 4.5Gb Year 14 - 4.5Gb We also quota emails on our exchange server pushing out the message that emails are NOT a filing system. Various quotas set depending on which job they do. The shares which have are being moved over to a VM and are split into 2, General share that students can see but cannot write to apart from a hand-in folder which is setup for departments on request and we communicate and monitor on a regular basis - staff have write access to this. Really thinking of setting quotas on departmental files in this area. Another share on here is a staff share, again, another dumping ground, can't really quota this . Then we have departmental shares - these have quotas set at 10Gb, 15Gb and 25Gb depending on the department. Science have 15gb which is 99% full, design tech have 25Gb which is 72% full and the rest which aren't doing too bad. All in all, things are running well, some staff understand housekeeping, others don't. I regularly do the treesize and windirstat scans on these shares for photos, etc. regular emails go out to staff about the size of the areas - this just falls on deaf ears
Frazzle Posted May 27, 2015 Posted May 27, 2015 @timbo343 How do Departments cope with such small quotas? Video seems to be the in the thing here with nearly every department having some kind of student made videos saved. We have PE using 418GB of mostly video, followed by Science with 100GB. How would you bring this down? They cant delete the videos, moving to external drives isn't the answer as then the videos wont be in the right place along with the other resources. Space isn't really the issue, its the backups. With over 5TBs of data on the file server it takes days to backup it all up. We tend to do full backups each half term using robocopy. it just takes too long!
mikeprice Posted May 27, 2015 Posted May 27, 2015 At a previous school I had a complaint made against me by a parent because I had deleted a kids whole collection of MP3 files from their home folder. We didn't have quotas but checked who was using the most every week or so and made if s obvious that we did so. BBW management told the parents to ******* off and only told us to give us a laugh!
Sheridan Posted May 27, 2015 Posted May 27, 2015 Use GAFE and they can dump as much crap as they like into google drive, and its not my problem! I can't control it, monitor it or change it! I bet half our staffs google drives are full of mp3s, ripped videos etc! 1
mjk Posted May 27, 2015 Posted May 27, 2015 Use GAFE and they can dump as much crap as they like into google drive, and its not my problem! I can't control it, monitor it or change it! I bet half our staffs google drives are full of mp3s, ripped videos etc! Works here too. When people run out of space we just say upload to Google apps - it's unlimited. Currently using about 1.7TB in GAFE and that doesn't count Google apps files. You can monitor, control and change it if you want :-)
Sheridan Posted May 27, 2015 Posted May 27, 2015 Works here too. When people run out of space we just say upload to Google apps - it's unlimited. Currently using about 1.7TB in GAFE and that doesn't count Google apps files. You can monitor, control and change it if you want :-) Sort of, I can't stop them uploading certain file types etc. Although with it not being our storage would I want to anyway!
mjk Posted May 27, 2015 Posted May 27, 2015 yes I see what you mean. I don't think you can block filetypes - but like you say, why would you need to?
Sheridan Posted May 27, 2015 Posted May 27, 2015 yes I see what you mean. I don't think you can block filetypes - but like you say, why would you need to? Yeah - we block the like of exes etc on their home drive, but can't on Drive. So they can copy stuff there but not run it locally. Google a bit vague about the content on drives - they obviously say it shouldn't be offensive/copyright/illegal etc - but without checking they're not going to know.
timbo343 Posted May 27, 2015 Posted May 27, 2015 (edited) @timbo343 How do Departments cope with such small quotas? Video seems to be the in the thing here with nearly every department having some kind of student made videos saved. We have PE using 418GB of mostly video, followed by Science with 100GB. How would you bring this down? They cant delete the videos, moving to external drives isn't the answer as then the videos wont be in the right place along with the other resources. Space isn't really the issue, its the backups. With over 5TBs of data on the file server it takes days to backup it all up. We tend to do full backups each half term using robocopy. it just takes too long! They manage, videos at the moment arent a big deal for us, every now and then we run WinDirStat and TreeSize to see where space is been taken up. If staff need to increase their sizes we run the above programs to see what is taking space up and we let them know or we ask if we can stick the stuff to CD for achiving (usually they never look at it again). If we are happy that everything looks ok, then we up the storage. This is the same with exchange, i keep telling staff, "your mailbox is not a file system, its a place to communicate with people. If you have large attachments either delete them or save them." It usually does the trick. Also telling to delete sent items and delete deleted items too works. 9 times out of 10 its photos so we just run them through FastStone photo resizer with 50% reduction as most are arounf 4mb. Do they really need to be this size? No! They are mearly there for evidence which is what the videos are there for too. With videos we run them through Any Video Converter with the correct options sobthey can be played on either media player or VLC. Its surprising how much compression there is when its converted. Usually we use the MP4 but i forget what we set for the other options. Usually videos for us are for evidence and those that need to show them in lesson dont see the loss of quality. If students have photos or videos on their phones then usually they come to see us, they stand beside us and we pull the relevant photos or videos off their device and then convert it to a smaller size. Edited May 27, 2015 by timbo343
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