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Back up to 2 hd's?

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Is it possible to use ATI 2012 to back up my OS to 2 drives? There is not enough room on my back up drive to run a backup so i was wondering if i could add another smaller drive to expand the space available. Or do I need to buy a bigger drive? Or use a different method to just back up some important files and drivers?

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Hi Rebecca,

Best practice - You want to create a full disk Image back up of your boot drive.  The entire disk..  all paritions

A back up destination should have enough free space to accomodate the size of the file you want to save. But, YES Acronis 2012/2013 does allow you to span a back up image across multiple disks if desired. However, this is not a good idea since each destination introduces another point of failure.  I would recommend freeing up space on the target disk, or buying a new drive that can accomadate the size of your back ups so your full disk images can be kept in one safe place. 

Please see page 54 of the User Guide for a complete description of this feature.