Backup failed when using two different external drives with full backup!
I have TWO external 2.5" USB hard-drives. Both are available with the SAME drive letter U: when attached to the computer. I want to make FULL IMAGE BACKUPS (no differential, just full single image backups) of 2 partitions (C: and F:) on these hard drives alternately: One week on the external hard drive A, and one week on the external hard drive B. The backup on hard drive A goes well, but when I try make the same full backup on hard drive B which is COMPLETELY EMPTY an error occurs: Acronis 2013 says it cannot create the file. Once I was away from the computer and I only saw that there was an error. So I retried and the second time an error message popped up telling me it cannot create a file and that I should search the file. So I entered a file name in the dialog box, then the backup went on and now it seems to work.
So this seems a VERY STUPID program to me when it cannot create a backup only because the drive is completely empty! The backup name together with the other backup properties are inside the Acronis backup list-item stored in Acronis, so it seems stupid that it needs an existing file on the disk to create a name for the backup and then it fails!! What kind of logic is this???
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I make just pure full backups on these external drives, so there is no reference to previous backups. I don't see any logical reason why TI2013 has problems with this. A smart backup program should allow this. There is a need for this, because using several external drives when making always the same full backup job increases backup reliability. And creating a separate backup job in TI2013 for each external drive creates confusion and therefore increases the risk of errors. Why not make things JUST SIMPLE?
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