Twice the disk space being used?

[MrWinter]

Hi,

I'm new to using Veeam for VM backups and have a question about the way space is being handled on my backup destination NAS.

I'm new to a position where Veeam has been used for many years, but I am struggling to understand why Veeam seems to be taking up twice the amount of disk space than it should. Backup notifications hadn't been working for a while before I got here, and once I got them going again I noticed that we were getting loads of out of space errors on our destination NAS, leading me to believe that things hadn't been working properly for a while.

I upped the disk space on the destination NAS by adding larger drives, but within a couple of days we were back to getting warnings.

Here's how things look when I ssh into the NAS (sanitized with xxxxx):

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xxxxx@NAS003:/volume1$ sudo df -h .
Password:
Filesystem         Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vg1/volume_1   21T   21T  240G  99% /volume1

xxxxx@NAS003:/volume1$ sudo du -h -d 1 VEEAM/
11T	VEEAM/@eaDir
0	VEEAM/TEMP SOFTWARE
11T	VEEAM/xxxxx-Backup
56M	VEEAM/VeeamConfigBackup
125G	VEEAM/xxxxx_xxxxx
21T	VEEAM/

xxxxxx@NAS003:/volume1$ sudo du -h -d 1 VEEAM/"@eaDir"/"@tmp"
7.7T	VEEAM/@eaDir/@tmp/cloud-syncd.work.dir
7.7T	VEEAM/@eaDir/@tmp

xxxxxx@NAS003:/volume1$ sudo du -h -d 1 VEEAM/"@eaDir"/"@tmp.12668"
2.6T	VEEAM/@eaDir/@tmp.12668/cloud-syncd.work.dir
2.6T	VEEAM/@eaDir/@tmp.12668

As far as I am reading things, the disk space Veeam is using for backups is twice what it should be. Am I reading this correctly?

When I look in the Veeam GUI, I can see that the data being used in the repository is reporting as 9.9TB.
Am I safe to delete things in the "@eaDir" directories to gain some more space?
Where should I be looking to figure out what's actually being used?

Again, sorry for the noob questions, any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Gostev]

Hello! You can see the backup location in the backup Properties dialog. You can find all your backups under the Backup node in the backup console. Thanks!

[soncscy]

Hey Chris,

I've never seen a cloud-syncd dir in any of my clients' environments, so I searched it online (btw your topic is pg1 google, congrats! )

https://community.synology.com/enu/forum/17/post/68687

Looks like it's some Synology workspace for offloading file to some cloud site? Is it possible your predecessor set up this syncing on the Synology and just forgot about it? I have no idea how Synology's sync would work as we never use them, so I can't comment on the numbers, but if it's using this as a workspace to temporarily stage data, it would make sense.