Brandie Tarvin (1/20/2015)
Gazareth (1/20/2015)
I use a powershell script (happy to share if you want to try it) to grab weekly db/filesizes and store them in a db table but obviously you'd need a few week's data to start estimating growth rates. Suppose you could do daily if you needed some quick numbers.I would love to take a look at the script if you don't mind. It would also assist us around budget / end of server life time.
Attached - I've added some comments so hopefully it's vaguely understandable! Feel free to ask any questions.
Once the data is stored in the database I had a proc that'd work out past/current growth & predict for the next 12 months. Unfortunately I don't have that to hand. You could export to excel/csv if there's no scope for using a db.
Not quick to set up I'm afraid, but mighty useful.