Userarea Sizes

[srochford]

Tried that but they just ground the servers to a halt.

 

As punishment and to prove a point I kept the servers offline for 2 days so no one had access to their files whilst I set up quotas.

Not draconian, a nescesery evil unfortunately as we'd run for 2 years without quotas but it got out of hand. One student was using 67 Gb of space whilst our staff shared area was less than that.

 

One student using 67 Gb is almost certainly bad and needs to be stamped on but I wouldn't say you have to mess things up for everyone by taking everything off line for 2 days just because one person (or even a few dozen people) can't behave themselves.

 

As others have said, you need to have reports on who's doing what; you can then deal with the miscreants so they don't mess things up for others and leave the "normal" people to just get on with life :-)

[maniac]

Tried that but they just ground the servers to a halt.

 

As punishment and to prove a point I kept the servers offline for 2 days so no one had access to their files whilst I set up quotas.

Not draconian, a nescesery evil unfortunately as we'd run for 2 years without quotas but it got out of hand. One student was using 67 Gb of space whilst our staff shared area was less than that.

 

Trying not to sound harsh, but I would probably lose my job if I did that. I've never come across a job which necessitated taking the servers offline, except for ocassional re-boots to apply updates and install new software. Setting up the quotas on my network took me all of a couple of hours using Server 2003 R2. I actually pride myself on the uptime of my network, if I don't achieve close to 100% uptime in a term then I'm quite disappointed with myself.

[Gibson335]

Trying not to sound harsh, but I would probably lose my job if I did that. I've never come across a job which necessitated taking the servers offline, except for ocassional re-boots to apply updates and install new software. Setting up the quotas on my network took me all of a couple of hours using Server 2003 R2. I actually pride myself on the uptime of my network, if I don't achieve close to 100% uptime in a term then I'm quite disappointed with myself.

 

People here would go ape if our servers were down for that long - we nearly had riots when an air-con fault saw them off on a Monday morning until around 9.15!!!

[zag]

I let them have unlimited but I go through once a term and use widdirstat on each yeargroup.

 

Usually move any psd, avi, jpg, mp3 files offline to another secret share.

 

Been doing this for about 4 years now and no one has noticed

 

Keeps our user areas to about 70gb in total for 1000 students.

[plexer]

I use R1soft cpd for backing up my 2 dc's takes about 30minutes per backup so now I do a lunchtime and evening backup.

[IGB]

I had been warning the school for some time about the way the servers were filling up but no one was taking any notice.

Everyone could still log in as we run 4 DCs, however the shares which held everyones home directories I'd hidden for some time in order to get my point accross. I was then asked what we needed to improve the situation. We now have a 4TB NAS that is being brought online gradually plus I got the go ahead to impose quotas.

 

The actual process of setting up the quota's took less than an hour to apply, however if you don't get your point accross then you'll always be firefighting and not moving forward.

[Disease]

I have just bought a HP X1600 12TB Storage array, so I should be ok for space, at the moment all user areas are contained on a 150gb drive.

 

When I commission the 12tb array I am going to create a 1TB mirror as a new home for the user areas, I will them implement a quota system of some sort.