Shadow Copy - Fixed number of File Versions

hello,
we are planing a big file server, arround 20 TB, many people will work on that.
we want to enable shadow copy in the file server in order the users can restore themselfs previous versions of their files.
how i will configure the space that shadow copy will use on the volume in order to provide ony 7 seven copies on their files?(regardless if the total
size file is small (at the beggining) or not (after couple of months) and how much users will write on files)
i read an MS article that analyze that and that you must estimate the file usage/file sizes that users will work with, this was not helpfull. should i estimate regulary the size that shadow copy will use or is another way for this ?
thanks

Hi,
When you enable shadow copies on a volume, you can specify the maximum amount of volume space to be used for the shadow copies. The default limit is 10 percent of the source volume (the volume being copied).
Regardless of the volume space that you allocate for shadow copies, you can have a maximum of 64 shadow copies for any volume.
As there are only 7 copies on their files, you need not to estimate the size that shadow copy used.
For more detailed information, please refer to the articles below:
Designing a Shadow Copy Strategy
http://technet.microsoft.com/fr-fr/library/cc728305(WS.10).aspx
Rapid Recovery with the Volume Shadow Copy Service
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2006.01.rapidrecovery.aspx
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what if i want the users to see only 7 versions of their files and not more like 8 or 10
in this case the only way is to estimate the files size usage, right?

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