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SharePoint Storage Jumped over 1Tb in less than 8 hours
I have been diligently moving data off of SharePoint to reduce our storage use. I use a powershell script to get the usage per site and check our SharePoint Admin Centre almost daily. Our usage has...
It appears Microsoft support did a "recalculation" on our tenant and added this extra usage to match the subsite storage metrics which took our tenant down. I am now in many cases and emails tryign to get them to undo what they did as we had to buy 1.5Tb of stroage to get working again.
I've looked into the Archive feature, which would work, however, if a user needed to access 1 folder in that Archive, the entire archived site would have to restored, which would then fill up our live storage.
We need to be able to archive but grant access occasionally to users to one or 2 folders in that archive site. If we can never really give users access to archived data, that's not an archive and pretty much a delete.
I've looked into the Archive feature, which would work, however, if a user needed to access 1 folder in that Archive, the entire archived site would have to restored, which would then fill up our live storage.
We need to be able to archive but grant access occasionally to users to one or 2 folders in that archive site. If we can never really give users access to archived data, that's not an archive and pretty much a delete.
EDIT: After more investigation, it looks like SPO Archive doesn't use your allocated SPO Storage quota.
What I originally posted is incorrect: "Just a note on the new SharePoint Archive feature. That also uses any available SharePoint Storage so still uses your overall SharePoint Storage Quota and won't get the desired results you are looking for in this instance."