I am still trying to figure out Azure Backup Server. There appears to be minimal useful information about this software anywhere, and with Microsoft refusing to help unless I pay, I have to yet again turn here for assistance.
In my testing of ABS, I set up a single machine with a small folder of data to test restoring. The folder in question is around 10MB in size and due to the retention period only being 5 days and these files are not changing, I would imagine the used disk space on the ABS server is very small. But looking at ABS, it has allocated 150GB of disk space that cannot be used for anything else, for storage of these 10MB of files.
This is absolutely ludicrous. How do I reduce the disk space consumed by ABS for this backup? If not, how many PB's of disk space does ABS require to backup hundreds of servers with thousands of GB's worth of data?