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Checking free space on disks

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Applies to	All servers and clients
Frequency	•For servers: daily, before the production starts •For clients: weekly or monthly
Tool	Microsoft Windows Explorer or 3rd party disk space checkers.
Where	When using Windows Explorer, from the Start Menu. When using 3rd party tools, it depends on the tool used.
Time required	5 minutes x computer
Description	Check the remaining space on all disks, including system partition.

Notes

•On SQL servers: Dumping of databases and transaction logs may require hundreds of gigabytes of space. Take into account that the space used by transaction log will increase during the production time and will reach its maximum right before the automatic nightly maintenance, typically scheduled at 03:00.

•On prints servers: Printing may require a huge amount of free disk space for spooling. Although the space is released when a print job is completely processed, the disk must allow for multiple huge jobs to be spooled.

•System partitions on print servers can get messed up by spool files, unless you relocate the spool destination directory.