Advice on Backups to Multiple USB Drives
Hello, I would like to ask for some advice on enhancing my backup strategy! First, some background: I currently take a full image backup of our home computer nightly and back it up to a 6TB USB drive. Due to large media files, I can fit 6 backups on the USB drive. I would like to enhance my backup plan by adding a second 6TB USB drive to the mix and swap between the two drives. In other words, use drive #1 for 6 days, switch to drive #2 and use it for 6 days, then back to drive #1, etc. Why? Two reasons: (1) I would take one drive to work in the event of a fire destroying the drive at our house, (2) I would like tighter protection against ransomware. If I get hit with ransomware and don't realize it for a few days, at least one previous week's worth of backups are protected because they aren't even connected to my system. I do use Acronis' cloud backup, but only for a limited subset of files. The most secure files and large video files I don't send to the cloud for $$ savings. So that would partly protect in the fire situation but not 100%. Would love any advice, especially from anyone who's tried this, on how to set it up. Do I need to even make any adjustments at all? When I swap drives, will the backup software just run as normal and delete the oldest backup as it normally would? Would love any insights you guys have!


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