The Backup That Would Not End
Backup Central, Monday, October 28th, 2024
When a client asked me to back up two Synology boxes totaling 'about 40TB,' I had no idea I was about to experience the backup from hell.
What followed was months of battling failing tape drives, kilobyte-per-second transfer speeds, and the discovery of directories containing millions of files - a perfect storm of everything that could possibly go wrong with a backup.