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Backup failed when using two different external drives with full backup!

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I have TWO external 2.5" USB hard-drives. Both are available with the SAME drive letter U: when attached to the computer. I want to make FULL IMAGE BACKUPS (no differential, just full single image backups) of 2 partitions (C: and F:) on these hard drives alternately: One week on the external hard drive A, and one week on the external hard drive B. The backup on hard drive A goes well, but when I try make the same full backup on hard drive B which is COMPLETELY EMPTY an error occurs: Acronis 2013 says it cannot create the file. Once I was away from the computer and I only saw that there was an error. So I retried and the second time an error message popped up telling me it cannot create a file and that I should search the file. So I entered a file name in the dialog box, then the backup went on and now it seems to work.
So this seems a VERY STUPID program to me when it cannot create a backup only because the drive is completely empty! The backup name together with the other backup properties are inside the Acronis backup list-item stored in Acronis, so it seems stupid that it needs an existing file on the disk to create a name for the backup and then it fails!! What kind of logic is this???

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The backup task has been created and identified with only 1 storage disk. My suggestion would be to have a separate backup task for each external disk and each disk to have its own individual drive letter. Each backup task would point to its own storage folder with no intermixing of backups.

If you wish to continue using one task with two disks, you may try changing the serial number on one so that both external disks have the same serial number--but my recommendation is two separate tasks.

I make just pure full backups on these external drives, so there is no reference to previous backups. I don't see any logical reason why TI2013 has problems with this. A smart backup program should allow this. There is a need for this, because using several external drives when making always the same full backup job increases backup reliability. And creating a separate backup job in TI2013 for each external drive creates confusion and therefore increases the risk of errors. Why not make things JUST SIMPLE?