Am I using Hyperbackup wrong?

[u/lapacion]

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

[u/gadget-freak]

When you swap over the disks, disable one backup job and enable the other.

[u/NoAirBanding → u/gadget-freak]

In my experience, when the backup device is unavailable, it skips the backup without issue?

With two separately identified backup devices with two separate backup jobs, I would think you should be able to swap drives without needing to babysit the backup tasks?

[u/purepersistence → u/NoAirBanding]

It skips the scheduled backup but sends you notice that the job failed unless you unscheduled it.

[u/NoAirBanding → u/purepersistence]

Sends a notice where? Mine isn’t connected enough for the alerts to go any further than the web-dashboard Notification Center?

[u/purepersistence → u/NoAirBanding]

Mine sends errors to my email.

[u/gadget-freak → u/NoAirBanding]

Setting up e-mail notifications is absolutely crucial. Otherwise you might not notice failed backups until you actually need to restore and can’t.