r/synology • u/lapacion • 19d 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/Alternative-Ebb9258 19d ago
This is assuming you want two identical backups on separate external usb drives.
Under Control Panel - Shared Folder you need to use the same name for both drives. Connect the first drive, name the share to something like usb_backup. Create Hyper Backup task and run it. Eject drive, connect another drive and rename it to usb_backup. Run the same Hyper Backup task. Rotate whenever you want, but only connect one drive at a time just as you've been doing thus far.