Backup to Same Disc
Windws 7 Ultimate SP1 x64
Acronis True Image Home 2015 18.0.0 .6613
I have two physical hard drives on my PC: a 100 GB SSD and a 900 GB spinner. Only about 1/4 of the spinner is in use. In case I accidentally delete or otherwise disrupt a file, I want backups on the spinner, which has far more unused space than the SSD. (For archiving, I copy the backups to a portable hard drive after encrypting them.)
The spinner is mostly data. On it are two large folders: one for photos and one for music (including videos of classical music). I do three separate backups of the spinner: photos, music, and everything else.
I have no problem backing up the SSD to the spinner. I have no problem backing up the photos or the music to the spinner even though this is backing up from the spinner to the spinner.
When I backup the "everything else", however, I get an annoying warning that I should not backup a disc to itself. This warning did not appear a few months ago, when I had to recreate the setup for backing up "everything else". Yes, I can still do the backup; but I would like to eliminate this annoyance. How?


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I want to emphasize Steve's last paragraph. It sounds like you did File and Folder backups of you music and photos, but maybe tried to create a Disk and Partitions backup for "everything else". And, be sure the "everything else" does not include the place you are putting the backup.
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