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Eline Kurvink
Copper Contributor
Sep 02, 2019
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How does versioning relate to storage space

Can someone inform me on how much storage is used in versioning.    In our tennant it looks like each version, both majors as minors, are stored in full. Taking up much space. When we look at a sin...
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  • Rob Ellis's avatar
    Rob Ellis
    Sep 02, 2019
    See https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/993f269f-63f9-4a04-abb9-bc945840dff7/shredded-storage-and-versioning-in-sharepoint-online?forum=sharepointgeneral
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Rob Ellis
Bronze Contributor
Sep 02, 2019
See https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/993f269f-63f9-4a04-abb9-bc945840dff7/shredded-storage-and-versioning-in-sharepoint-online?forum=sharepointgeneral
  • Eline Kurvink's avatar
    Eline Kurvink
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 02, 2019

    Thanks Rob Ellis , but the storage manager shows different storage amounts than the library does. 

     

    In the attached example you can see a screenshot of our sharepoint online library showing a total of 3836Kb, where the storage metrics show 17,5MB for the same files....  

     

    Assuming storage metrics is designed to show metrics on storage, it looks like we use up far more space than just the files and versioning incrementals. ANy idea what the official specs are? We would like to understand the impact of versioning on our storage.

    • ChrisWebbTech's avatar
      ChrisWebbTech
      MVP
      Sep 02, 2019
      Not an easy way to tell from what I know. But if you look in SPO Admin at the site, you will see the actual storage usage their. I have a site I'm testing Invoice Processing with and I have 6 Gig or changes reporting there. However, only using .49GB on the Site collection.
      • Eline Kurvink's avatar
        Eline Kurvink
        Copper Contributor
        Sep 04, 2019

        ChrisWebbTech thanks, we will try populating a new site, do versioning and see what happens as to storage. Is there anything in a manual on file storage and versioning and how to interpret volume number on admin views like 'storage metrics' and SPO admin?

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