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Creating backups on multiple USB drives

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I have to My Book USB drives that I'm trying to back up to. I would like to take one to my work for an off-site storage. So I created full back ups of each of my drives onto both USB drives. No problem. I take one to work and leave the other home. Every two weeks I bring the drive home from work. Now here's the problem. When I try to back up again, it tries to create a full backup instead of an incremental back-up. I have it set to do incremental after a full back-up. I do not want to create a full back-up every time. It takes way too long.

Has anyone had this issue? Is there a solution?

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Don,

Assign two different drive letters to your external drives as well as create two separate backup tasks (one for each drive).

Run only the correct backup task for the attached drive, and you should be fine.

Be sure to start with a NEW task for each drive, do not modify the existing task - remove it.

James

I agree with James. I use two external WD drives, in rotation, for backups. I assign each a fixed, unique drive letter and each has its own backup task.