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Earlier vsions (2010, for example) used to seamlessly handle swapping out one backup disk for another.   It should be (and used to be) as simple as disconnecting the USB drive and plugging in the new one.  2015 goes bananas when you do that and I wind up having to create a whole new backup task.  If there is no clean solution for this, I need to find another product.

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Ron,

It would help if you could describe the task(s) you are trying to run on multiple USB disks....full backups only, or differential backups or incremental backups.

Please describe the desired behavior when you plug in a different USB drive...for example if you plug in a clean USB drive, do you expect ATI to create the backup folder, or will the disks have the backup folders already created.  If the first USB drive has one full backup and 5 incremental backups, and you put in a clean USB drive, do you expect ATI to start a full backup, followed by incremental backups until you swap out the drives. 

Also, please list any error messages you currently get when swapping out the drives.  Screen images of the error messages will help.

In the end, ATI 2015 may not be capable of doing what you want it to do.

FtrPilot

 

The backup environment is pretty much just the default which automatically creates full backups then incrementals.

I would expect, at most, that I would have to create the backup directory (though it would make sense for Acronis to do that if it doesn't exist) on all of the USB drives in the rotation.  With older vresions this worked perfectly.  In short, once the rotation was established, I would expect to be able to change backup disks any time a backup was not in progress without having Acronis complain.

I get the feeling from your response that this is a capability that no longer exists?  Or, is there some newer version that fixes the problem?

I am not at the PC in question right now, but I can certainly snap the error screens.  I just expected the answer would be obvious.

Ron,

Please refer to the link below.  In the link, GroverH explains that each task is tied to the target disk ID.  Therefore, swapping USB disks and attempting to run a task created for the original USB disk is not possible.  GroverH also explains a workaround.

https://forum.acronis.com/forum/64634

I believe another (possibly easier) workaround may be available, but would need to understand your backup scheme.  Such as: 3 USB disks (grandfather, father, son) rotating a new disk each week.  One full backup then 6 incremental backups.

FtrPilot

 

So Acronis took a perfectly simple and reasonable approach and built a Rube Goldberg version?

As I noted, I use the default backup scheme which creates a full backup and 5 incrementals.  I had been in the habit of changing the backup disks weekly.  Is there any way I could use the license key and download the most recent version of Acronis (Windows 7) that does not have that ridiculous "feature"?