Hi, I have a Windows 2008 R2 server running the Windows Server Backup role. It takes a nightly backup of the system drive and the data drive and saves it to a large external drive attached to the server. Over the weekend, we had an extremely large amount of extraneous data show up on the data drive (800GB+) and that data was therefore included in the backups, nearly filling our backup drive. What, if anything, should I do to remove this extraneous data from our backup drive? I am completely comfortable losing the entire days' backup data, it does not have to be ONLY the garbage data removed. We have perfectly sized backups of the normal data from preceding days, and nothing was changed that we will be needing to roll back to.
Am I making a mountain out of a molehill? We have deleted the garbage data, so the backups should be fine going forward, but if it came down to the backup drive filling up and it automatically purging old jobs to make room, I would rather have the oldest backups available and not a bunch of garbage data. I also don't want to futz with setting up an entire new drive if this one fills up and the backup job stops running. Thanks for any input or advice!
Ryan Sage