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Destination Drive Volume Name identification

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It would be nice for Acronis to be able to read drive volume names rather then just drive letters, yes I know it can be done with txt files and batch files but windows sometimes assigns usb drives different drive letters. This would help avoid backups being made to drives that are not meant for backups.

I know I'm not the only one thats requested this functionality, it would help a lot. You could even have Acronis write a small id file to the destination drive that relates to the backup profile as well, then I could leave my backups on the list.

Pretty Please

 

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Fred, I note that you have made this same request in the Acronis True Image Wishlist topic.

In reality there are some fairly easy methods you can use to avoid the wrong drive being used for any backups.

First, allocate a drive letter for your backup drive that is unlikely to be used by any other temporary drive being plugged in, i.e. go towards the end of the alphabet and pick a letter such as S: etc.

Second, add a small, empty text file identifier on your backup drive, i.e. BackupDrive.txt, then use a very simple Pre Command in your ATI Backup task to test for that text file being present before continuing with the backup action.

Pre Command.

if not exist S:\BackupDrive.txt exit /b 1

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Hello Fred,

Thank you for your posting! Hm, different drives having the same letter shouldn't an issue for Acronis True Image anymore. Starting from Acronis True Image 2019 Beta, the product does not use device instance IDs as with this identification there were a lot of issues with changed IDs that Acronis True Image could no longer track. We are now using Partition IDs, these are IDs that the product generates based on GUID of the partition on its first sector number. They can be changed by formatting the drive but seem to be more reliable. Thus, even if the two drives get the same disk letter, we will view them as separate drives.

Do you have a clean installation of Acronis True Image 2019 or upgraded from an earlier product version? If the latter, I'd try with the clean installation. If the issue still reproduces, please open a support ticket for investigation.