Dear Colleague...

[misterx]

While I realize you meant well, backing up the shared drives on the file server TO the file server doesn't make much sense. Actually, the effect snowballs, and the server rapidly runs out of diskspace. And as my automated backups of the file server run, you fill up the backup server too. You get bonus points for automating all this destruction though... well done. -Vaughn

Comments

[theldara.livejournal.com]

LOL... that totally sounds like something that someone would do here in Mordor.

[thefile.livejournal.com]

At least they didn't put an automated copy into a sub-directory of one of the directories that's included in the automation....

Directory structure gets pretty deep...

[misterx.livejournal.com]

If I'm understanding you, I think that's exactly what they did. Here is what I think happened.

We had three shared directories coming off of one partition (share names changed to protect the innocent):
\\Shareme\Share1\
\\Shareme\Share2\
\\Shareme\Share3\

They had mapped these as X:, Y: and Z:.

First time it ran, it backed up X, Y, and Z to:
\\Shareme\Share1(X:)\BackupX\
\\Shareme\Share1(X:)\BackupY\
\\Shareme\Share1(X:)\BackupZ\

So now we have:
\\Shareme\Share1(X:)\
\\Shareme\Share1(X:)\BackupX\
\\Shareme\Share1(X:)\BackupY\
\\Shareme\Share1(X:)\BackupZ\
\\Shareme\Share2(Y:)\
\\Shareme\Share3(Z:)\

Next run, it creates more subdirs...
\\Shareme\Share1(X:)\
\\Shareme\Share1(X:)\BackupX\
\\Shareme\Share1(X:)\BackupY\
\\Shareme\Share1(X:)\BackupZ\
\\Shareme\Share1(X:)\BackupX\BackupX\
\\Shareme\Share1(X:)\BackupX\BackupY\
\\Shareme\Share1(X:)\BackupX\BackupZ\
\\Shareme\Share2(Y:)\
\\Shareme\Share3(Z:)\

Fills up pretty quick. :)

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

Please, please tell me this was a mangler or a non-technical person.

[misterx.livejournal.com]

should have known better, actually.