OneDrive for Business Critical error!

Dashrender

@Dashrender said:

What is ODfB?

I'm guessing OneDrive for Business.

So many letters, so little time thanks!

Dashrender

Error Description: Not enough storage is available to complete this operation.
HRESULT: 0x8007000e
AssertTag: 0x13be72c

I take it that you're not actually out of space in you ODfB account? How about on the local machine? If ODfB has to make a 'sync copy' would you run out of local disk space?

technobabble

@Carnival-Boy yepper!

technobabble

@Dashrender Local drive has 113 GB free.

scottalanmiller

Try renaming one of those files without the dot in the front. I bet that it syncs.

thanksajdotcom

@scottalanmiller said:

Try renaming one of those files without the dot in the front. I bet that it syncs.

Agreed.

technobabble

Very inconvenient to rename xyz.jason files or .htaccess files, especially since they are backup website files.

I am now zipping all the website backups, again inconvenient, I have had 1 to 1 backups since 2003 without issues with other backup programs.

JaredBusch

@technobabble said:

I have had 1 to 1 backups since 2003 without issues with other backup programs.

OneDrive for Business is not a backup program.

technobabble

Yeah, I know I saw that I wrote that after I hit submit.

However the ability to have my data in ODfB for my clients websites means that I can do a restore from anywhere.

scottalanmiller

I think that there are probably better ways to get similar results. A sync system for backup works pretty poorly. Why not just SFTP? Or RSYNC? Or even SVN or GIT?

If you are automating ODFB, though, you could automate the zipping.

Carnival Boy

@JaredBusch said:

OneDrive for Business is not a backup program.

Why not? I'm interested in this because I'm planning on using it for a backup program at home.

scottalanmiller

@Carnival-Boy said:

@JaredBusch said:

OneDrive for Business is not a backup program.

Why not? I'm interested in this because I'm planning on using it for a backup program at home.

Backup means a decoupling. ODFB is coupled to the source. If you build your own decoupling mechanism (see below) you can use it as storage for your own backup mechanism, but it is just synced storage intended for another purpose.

Carnival Boy

..that and the fact that it seems a bit crap and unreliable.

scottalanmiller

If you attach ODFB to the filesystem you want to back up, it is coupled and not a backup (deletion or corruption of the source destroys the replicant automatically.)

So to use as a backup component you need to decouple the original file from the replicant location. You can do this with a script easily enough. Take an hourly zip of a directory and copy it to the replicant folder for example.

To make this better, make it make copies with the date in the name so that you have multiple restore copies at different times. If you don't do that, you'll accidentally recompile the naturally decoupled piece.

In this scenario, though, your script is the backup system and ODFB is just online storage. You could do the same thing with Rackspace CloudFiles

scottalanmiller

@Carnival-Boy said:

..that and the fact that it seems a bit crap and unreliable.

Seems unreliable when attempted to be used outside of its use case, yes. Does that make it crap?

Carnival Boy

@scottalanmiller said:

So to use as a backup component you need to decouple the original file from the replicant location.

Does ODFB not store previous copies, so if you corrupt the source, you can just restore from an earlier version?

Carnival Boy

or to put it another way, if ODFB is not a backup, how do Office 365 users backup their data?

scottalanmiller

@Carnival-Boy said:

or to put it another way, if ODFB is not a backup, how do Office 365 users backup their data?

O365 is a big licensing thing. Every component of O365 is completely unique vis-a-vis backups. Typically ODFB isn't primary storage so backups are done traditionally.

scottalanmiller

@Carnival-Boy said:

@scottalanmiller said:

So to use as a backup component you need to decouple the original file from the replicant location.

Does ODFB not store previous copies, so if you corrupt the source, you can just restore from an earlier version?

I've actually never tried. I don't believe that it stores versions like Sharepoint does but will need to look. Maybe it does.

scottalanmiller

Yes it does offer that. You have to manually turn on versioning or else it only keeps the last edit. But the option is there.