How to use 2 different external drives for 1 backup-plan
Hello!
Pretty much the title. The solution is obviously using 2 backup-plans. But then one of those will fail and send me a failure-email which is unnecessary if I want a status Email.
Any suggestions?
Regards
Steve Smith wrote:Forsthaus, welcome to these public User Forums.
Acronis associates the unique drive identifier (GUID) for the drives selected as Source & Destination for each backup task, so when you switch between different drives to backup, this will cause an error because the expected drive is not found.
See KB 62741: Acronis True Image: rotating backup destination disks requires separate backup plans per destination disk - where this is documented.
The alternative approach would be to use a synchronisation application to 'mirror' your two backup drives so that you always keep the same initial backup drive and mirror any changes to that drive to the second drive. Windows RoboCopy can be used if you are happy with writing a batch script with the necessary commands.
The downside to mirroring drive content is the change with ATI 2020 & later versions where Acronis now consolidate all disk incremental backups into the initial Full backup .tibx file for each new backup chain, resulting in much larger file transfers.
In that case 1 job will give me 6 error emails every day (that is how it works right now).
Reality is that customers want to switch devices freely without any strict schedule OR/AND sometimes they simply forget to switch.
Reality is that 1 job, which would work on both external drives, is the solution everyone is seeking honestly.
Reality is also that making the same job twice exactly the same is "redundant" just because the drive is different even tho the path is the same.
Maybe something to think about, that reality is often not what software developers think is best.
PS: a software change is simple and easy. after 10 years of programing i know how this is done in acronis and i am sure that the developers here are more than capable of implementing this change in less than 1 day. speaking of adding an option to ignore destination disk GUID. you could limit the beackup method to a full one.
Sorry but you need to address your comments & change suggestions directly to Acronis - you can use the Feedback tool in the help section of the ATI GUI to do this.
The approach I am using is to have one job per hard disk, and I assign different drive letters to the different backup disks to avoid confusion. When I swap the disks, I deactivate the jobs for the disk I am taking out, and activate those I mount. As I change the disks once a month only, it is clumsy, but it kind of works.
Forsthaus Seebergen wrote:In that case 1 job will give me 6 error emails every day (that is how it works right now).
Reality is that customers want to switch devices freely without any strict schedule OR/AND sometimes they simply forget to switch.
Reality is that 1 job, which would work on both external drives, is the solution everyone is seeking honestly.
Reality is also that making the same job twice exactly the same is "redundant" just because the drive is different even tho the path is the same.
Hello Forsthaus Seebergen,
I've passed your feedback to the product team, thank you! Yes, unfortunately this scenario is currently not supported due to the architectural limitations in the product.