vinnie Posted July 9, 2009 Report Share Posted July 9, 2009 Running 7.6 pro is it possible to treat 2 external HDDs as a single backup volume, so that i can simply swap the external drive each morning after a backup? Both drives are mapped to the same drive letter. cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted July 9, 2009 Report Share Posted July 9, 2009 You need a different backup set for each of the disks you want to use as a rotating destination. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinnie Posted July 9, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2009 Thanks Robin. Yes the further i dug into the forum archive i eventually found a number of similar posts. Can i ask, is that by design, or a weakness in the software? I had assumed it would be a fairly typical approach to have 2 identical external drives, regularly swapped. I appreciate its possible to acheive this by having 2 backup sets, however thats very inflexible. If im sick and dont come into the office for the day, or leave in a rush and forget to swap, then my backup fails right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted July 10, 2009 Report Share Posted July 10, 2009 design. if you miss a rotation then the backup waits for the disk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinnie Posted July 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2009 ok, thanks for the swift response Robin. Can i please wave a big flag bearing the following message: "it would be really cool to assign swappable external drives to a single backup set!!" cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinnie Posted July 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2009 Just incase anyone else wants to acheive the same thing, heres my ugly work around. I duplicated my backupset with all the same settings, same schedule etc, then edited the destination to the second volume. This means both backups sets try to run every day, one of them will always fail depending on which HDD is connected, the other will run. In settings i set email notifications for all events, then created a filter for my email that deletes anything that does not say completed so i dont get a bunch of error notifications each night, only the success notifications, i know if theres no notifications in the morning that something went wrong. cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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