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Span multiple external drives

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I am sure that has been answered before and God knows I've searched but I've never seen why.

Why can't I have a set of external drives and as a backup runs put in a new drive as the current drive fills? So span multiple drives?

I used to backup to floppies and there DOS based backup utils that could do this why can't Acronis?

p.s. If in all my searching I've missed an update and this does work then I will take my self righteous self to the wood shed

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Kevin, sorry but this does not work with Acronis because all backup files are tracked in an internal database where they are linked to the unique identifier of the destination drive / partition.

You could potentially use Storage Spaces where you can pool multiple drives thought I have never used these, but which would 'look' to be a 'single' drive to Acronis.

With ATI 2020, 2021 and the new ACPHO applications, there is more use of metadata for any disks & partitions backups which would also prevent doing what you ask.