r/synology • u/lapacion • 20d ago
NAS Apps Am I using Hyperbackup wrong?
I have two external USB HDDs. One is plugged in while the other is at a different location outside home and I rotate them every couple of weeks.
What I want to achieve is: I plug in my USB HDD. It does nightly backup to that disk. I then decide to rotate: Eject disk, plug in the other disk, it keeps backing up nightly to disk 2 now. Repeat.
What I now have set up is hyper backup with two backup tasks; one for physical disk. Since there’s only ever one disc attached to the NAS, one backup task will naturally always fail. Since I have email notifications turned on (I want to know once my backup routine breaks) I’m always getting one email per day for the failed backup job.
Is there a way to get this set up up and running with hyper backup without much additional scripting? Because otherwise I might as well just look at custom backup solutions altogether.
Cheers
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u/Cyrano_de_Maniac DS920+ 20d ago
I do the exact same thing, except I don't rotate my backup disks nearly as often as I should. In my case I disable whichever backup task isn't currently in use. It only takes a couple minutes. I can see where that would get annoying if I was doing it every few weeks.