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Backed up on disk A, now backup afresh on disk B - need both disks attached?

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My set of full backup followed by 5 incremental backups finished on USB external disk A. I want to start a fresh set of a full backup followed by 5 incremental backups but on USB external disk B.

Do I just only attach disk B and start the backup? Or do I need to attach disk A as well?

My concern is that the backup to disk B may need disk A's backup relinquished in some way.

 

 

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Neither of the approaches will work. What you need to do is create a new backup task for the backup to Disk B; you can do this using the clone settings option (see user guide 4.6.1).

You should also check out the following Knowledge Base documents which explain why the approaches you are thinking of will not work.

62741: Acronis True Image: rotating backup destination disks requires separate backup plans per destination disk

65567: Acronis True Image 2021: No data is available at Recovery tab when using swapped USB disks

Hope this helps

Ian