changing disks
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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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.
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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
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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"?
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