Aspects of capacity planning

You should plan the capacity of your storage system and the secondary storage system before performing the backup.

The following are the aspects of capacity planning:

• SnapVault secondary storage system volume size
• The SnapLock for SnapVault Log volume size
• Number of qtrees backed up to each volume
• SnapVault schedule

• Guidelines for estimating SnapVault secondary storage system volume size
  There are guidelines you can follow to estimate the size of SnapVault secondary storage system volumes for growth over one year, depending on how often you back up data.
• Estimating the log volume size
  You can use simple equations to estimate the size of the log data associated with each SnapLock volume and create a log volume equal to the total of the combined estimated sizes.