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Can not use external Thunderbolt drive as nonstop backup destination on Windows

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For unknown reasons, TIH will allow nonstop backup to an SD card, but not to an external Thunderbolt drive. TIH will allow it as a destination for a standard backup, however.

I work daily in a Windows system booted from a virtual disk and want to back-up this vhd file in real-time. The G-Drive I have from WD has write speeds of 2,800MB/s over Thunderbolt 3 and 4; FAR, FAR faster than writes to the SD card. Further, the VHD is almost 200GB. Regardless, please allow for non-stop backups to external Thunderbolt drives under Windows. Thank you.

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David,

I think the limitation is not the drive but rather the data.  I do not think you can backup an active VHD with the product as I believe at this time it is not supported.

Actually, it's not a data issue. I can manually copy the vhd to the external drive while it is running. That's what I do every day.

I did not say it is a data issue, what I said was that backup of VHD(X) or virtual disk is not supported by the True Image product line.

True Image Virtual Machine support

David, in the original post you said NSB worked with an SD card, but not Thunderbolt drive. Was this a VHD backup to the SD or were you referring to another backup?

I gave the example of the vhd file because it is huge. And when it it's not mounted, it is just a huge file like any other file, and it can be copied or backed-up all day long with no problem.

The issue is that nonstop backup will not recognize an external thunderbird disk as a valid destination regardless of the type of file being backed-up. 

Acronis already emailed me to say they are bringing this issue up for consideration, because it is a valid destination on Mac, but not on Windows