TI Home 2010 Multiple USB Drives
I am trying to setup a backup plan on multiple USB drives for a customer
The plan I want is
Week 1 (Drive 1) - Monday, FULL Backup Tues - Sun Differential backups
Week 2 (Drive 2) - Monday, FULL Backup Tues - Sun Differential backups
I then swap back to Drive 1 and start again, erasing the existing backups, This allows me to keep one drive off site
When the drives had nothing on them this worked fine but the first time I swapped back to drive 1 I started to get an error, sent by email
Task is waiting for user interaction.
Description: My Disk Drives Backup
Information: Specify location of the volume 1.
Details: Click Browse to specify volume location, Retry to try again, or click Cancel.
Both drives are identical, directory structure is the same and the drive letter has not changed.
I believe this may be because it is looking for a different "full backup" file.
Is there a way at the beginning of the schedule period i.e. Monday, to erase the previos full and differential backups and hence start again.
I have thoought of using the option "Create a new full backup after" option Would this work, and if so should it be 6 OR 7 differential backups
All help appreciated

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Thanks for the reply Colin
This seems a real shortcoming of the software.
Storagecraft ShadowProtect handles this perfectly.
The problem I see with your approach is that when there is a public holiday on a Monday. It will require manual intervention to sort out.
I see you use TI Echo Workstation, does handle this in the same way?
Thanks again
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Brian,
As far as I know all Acronis imaging software uses the disk_ID to know where it's archives are, however what might be different is if you used networked drives as these would use IP or mapped shares.
I think the bank/public holiday problem could be got around by not having the 'if missed run as soon as possible' item unticked.
Another possibility would be to use Windows scheduler and once a year enter all the holiday dates, and then have the scheduler call the TI scheduler - though that seems a bit messy to me.
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