Thanks! However I tried this just now (and before), and the Revision Clean Up begins, but completes after a few seconds with "succeeded".  My repository is growing daily still, and eventually will fill up the filesystem after a few weeks, so either the Revision Clean Up is not working, or there is s...

Has anyone been able to get AEM 6.0's datastore garbage collection to work, after a fresh install?  Currently when clicking on startDataStoreGC(), the error message is returned:               statuscode0id43messageCannot perform operation: no service of type BlobGCMBean found.

Justin, can you provide the documentation that describes this?  I just want to make sure that this is a supported backup method.

What is the way then to create online backups in CQ without shutting down the application?

Why is blocking writes not necessary?  What practical way is there then to have a clean backup of Oak & TarMK without shutting down the CQ application? With CQ 5.5/5.6 the blockRepositoryWrites command conveniently allowed for a system adminstrator to do a point-in-time volume snapshot, capturing th...

Thanks Justin.  How is blocking repository writes, or its equivalent done in Oak then?  

Hi,When attempting a "blockRepositoryWrites" via /system/console/jmx, I am getting a "javax.jcr.UnsupportedRepositoryOperationException".  When will this functionality be supported, as it is needed for performing online backups?  See screenshot for java error/stacktrace.Thanks.Michael C.

I have the same problem.  Its odd that a new release of CQ6 would have a bug to cause the disk to be full after some days.