TI 2014 - Incremental Backups to Rotating USB Drives
I am trying to do an incremental partition backup to two external USB drives that I swap every day or two for off-site storage. I thought things were working fine, but now the backup is failing with two errors:
- failed to locate backup file
- failed to open data stream
The backup it is not locating is numbered 39. The directory on the USB drive now attached contains many backup files, but all are numbered 45 and 46.
The backup settings are:
- all partitions
- incremental backup
- create full version after every 5 incremental versions
- delete version chains older than 8 days
It seems like it is failing because the full backup file cannot be found.
Does the original full backup file need to be in the directory for it to do the incremental?
Do my settings need to be adjusted if I want to rotate drives daily?
Should I just do a full backup instead of incremental?
Any other suggestions?
Thank you for your help!

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