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Acronis 2020 Multiple external drives

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Looking for a step by step procedure on how to use 2 external drives for backup so one can be taken offsite every other day

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Hello Bill,

welcome to Acronis forums! Please refer to https://kb.acronis.com/content/62741 In short, rotating external disks with backups requires that each disk that is being rotated has its own backup plan. For example, if there are 2 disks where you store backups, of which only 1 is used at a time, there must be 2 backup plans, each targeting the corresponding disk of the two.

Bill, please see KB 63252: Acronis True Image 2020: how to back up files or disks which already has such instructions for a single backup, then repeat the process for a second disk backup to go to your second backup drive.

The key point with creating these backups is to ensure that each backup task has a unique name and that it clearly identifies which backup drive is being used.