Jamison_West
18 years agoLevel 3
Backup Exec 11d to USB with GRT and Disk Reserve
I have clients using SBS2003 with Backup Exec 11d. I am using Exchange Server GRT and backing up to external USB drives. It works well, but I need to set a 10% disk reserve (i.e. 50GB on a 500GB disk). I know that isn't a "best practice", but has anyone figured out a way to keep at least 10% of a partition free on a backup USB disk in Backup Exec? I have 3rd party monitoring software I cannot switch away from and it complains very loudly if any physical disk (including USB) has less than 10% available. I think I can stop using Exchange GRT and use the legacy backup method and then disk reserve is OK, but that isn't really what I want to do. Please advise.