In our workplace we have setup a backup system consisting the Symantec Backup Exec 2010 R3 and Synology NAS
The backup are scheduled as follows
Symantec Backup Exec
—[1]—> Synology Rack
—[2]—> external usb
Part 1
consists of the following back tasks:
- System Back up – daily @ 18:00
- Data Back up – daily @ 23:00
- System setting Back up – weekly (saturdays) @ 20:00
Part 1
seems to work fine; Problems arise in part 2
, which consist of only one backup task
- LUN backup – weekly (tuesdays) @ 06:00
Every Tuesday we receive the following auto-generated email: USB disk 1 on your NAS device is running out of space; please take corrective action
,
followed by this email: Local LUN Backup on your NAS device has failed. Please check the backup log for further information
Is there a clever way of solving this situation. First thing that comes to my mind is somehow emptying the external USB drive, but how to do this automatically?
I am a newbie, so any suggestions are welcomed.
Best Answer
You have to make sure there's enough space on the disk. We use Synology as well and run into the same problems. Synology does not automatically delete "old" backups from the external disk if you're doing incremental backups or naming backup files differently with timestamps or other methods.
Basically, you have to do this manually while ensuring there's enough space on the disk for everything to fit at least once.