Scheduled backup not finding path
This is a strange one. Hope someone has a clue. I have two identical external drives. The are assigned drive letters "F" and "I". I run two scheduled backups daily. One is a file backup of various work related folders plus my .pst file. The other is an "Entire computer" disk image. I run one backup to one drive and the other to another drive so I have some redundancy. If I backup Entire Computer to the "F" drive and and the files to the "I" drive, no problem backups run according to schedule. If I reverse this configuration, the file backup to the "F" drive runs fine but I get an error message "path not found" for my "Entire Computer". (not always but more often than not). After I get this message, however, I change backup to unscheduled and backup manually and backup runs fine --- validation fine. So in essence scheduled backups to drive "I" are not running but manually started backups to drive "I" do. In addition my scheduled file backup to drive "I" always runs. I have checked the drive using both the windows chkdsk function as well as using the Western Digital tools and everything checks out fine.
Kind of drives me crazy since I just want to set and forget. Instead I have to go check to see if it has run. Any ideas??????
Thanks for any help.


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Agree with Enchantech, one task to one drive only.
Acronis is not designed to work with multiple drives per single task, and the Acronis database records the unique disk drive identifier (UUID) for the drive assigned to the task being run, so swapping the drives over will give issues.
Keep it simple (KISS) is the best way forward. Do your daily backups only to the same drive each time, so if Entire PC goes to drive F, and Files & Folders to drive I - keep them that way.
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Agreed as well. If you want to swap them back and 4th, then you need 4 backup jobs. 1 Full PC and 1 data to drive 1(2 jobs on drive 1) and 1 full PF and 1 data to drive 2. Then you can swap them around all you want (as long as the drives always maintain the same drive letter they were set up with in the backup job.
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