HBS 3 Taking Up Too Much Room on Backup Destination

[tfjield]

I'm using Google Drive as a backup destination. I have about 250 Gb there already, and a 2 TB limit, so there is about 1.75 TB available for HBS 3. My data to be backed up are about 850 Gb, but HBS 3 routinely fills it up, all the way to 2 TB.

I have it set to use compression and to remove deleted data from the destination, but it's still using all the available space!

Anybody else have this problem?

P.S. I realize that deleting items in Drive just moves them to the trash, but they still count against your quota. I have a script that automatically permanently empties the trash daily, so that's not it.

[P3R]

Are you using versioning?

Other than that I think that your your best bet is to ask Qnap support.

[tfjield]

That's a good question! Mostly because I'm not sure what you're referring to... lol. Versioning on Google Drive? Or on the NAS? Or is that an HBS 3 option?

[P3R]

It's a HBS3 option. You find it below the job schedule when you edit the job. It means saving several different versions (generations) of a backup and the additional versions use up storage.

[tfjield]

Ah, thank you. Never noticed that before. But unfortunately, no, it's turned off.