Hi All,
We have a file share on a Win 2012 server where we, along with a Backup Exec to tape, also run a Robocopy script over to our backup server in a data centre.
What we noticed was, if a directory has a Placeholder of a file thats been archived, the file on the remote backup server does not get removed.
This causes the backup servers space to bloat up, using more disk space than it ideally should.
Is there any way to have Robocopy pick up on the fact that the Placeholder is not an actual file, and remove from the backup site?
This is our current robocopy script.
"\\localhost\share""\\backup\share" /XA:O /ZB /mir /copyall /r:2 /w:2 /log:d:\logdirectory\logfile.log /ts /fp /ipg:10
We're discussing the idea of generating a list of Placeholder files, and removing them from the backup site before the Robocopy job runs, but we're not too sure how to go about this, or if its the best way to do it.
Any ideas or available Symantec tools that would help will be great!
Cheers!