Low Disk Space Alert on SERVER
My SBS 2003 server sends out an email once in a while that claims there is low disk space:
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The following disk is low on free disk space. Low levels of free disk space can cause performance problems and prevent users from saving files on the disk.
Drive Letter: HarddiskVolume12
Free Disk Space: 0.000000. MB
% Free Disk Space: 0.000000.%
You can disable this alert or change its threshold by using the Change Alert Notifications task in the Server Management Monitoring and Reporting taskpad.
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I am pretty sure it is related to the USB drives we are using for backup. We have 3 drives that we rotate daily, so one is connected at a time. Since the server is headless the drives are never properly disconnected. From what I read unsafely removing these drives leads to this error.
1. Is there any way to eject this drive properly with no keyboard etc. (maybe an external button mapped to a command? or something.
2. How can I stop this error?
THANKS!
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The following disk is low on free disk space. Low levels of free disk space can cause performance problems and prevent users from saving files on the disk.
Drive Letter: HarddiskVolume12
Free Disk Space: 0.000000. MB
% Free Disk Space: 0.000000.%
You can disable this alert or change its threshold by using the Change Alert Notifications task in the Server Management Monitoring and Reporting taskpad.
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I am pretty sure it is related to the USB drives we are using for backup. We have 3 drives that we rotate daily, so one is connected at a time. Since the server is headless the drives are never properly disconnected. From what I read unsafely removing these drives leads to this error.
1. Is there any way to eject this drive properly with no keyboard etc. (maybe an external button mapped to a command? or something.
2. How can I stop this error?
THANKS!
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Remote Desktop isn't practical because the users are not tech savy. The only other idea I have would be to put an icon on the desktop of one of the workstations that will remotely launch a script on the server to eject the drive. I could just have them double click that before they go into the room and swap the drive.
After a drive is ejected is there anyway to get it back live without physically unplugging and plugging back in -- in case they forget to change the drive after they eject.