Use of removable hard drives on a server

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I am backing up three computers to a removable hard drive.

  • A desktop PC with Win 7
  • A laptop with Win 7 and
  • A server running Windows Home Server 2011.

I currently run Acronis 2014 backup on all three to a dedicated high capacity hard drive on the server, using separate directories for each machine. so far, so good as this works. I use a shared name to access the drive from the remote machines. But....

This hard drive is installed in a removable device (slot) on the server. I have three drives and two slots for mounting them. I want to set up a reliable rotating backup protocol so I can always have one drive off site for serious disaster recovery, one active drive for backups and one drive ready to go when the previous one gets full. so far, I've had some success using identical directory structures on all drive and I always mount the drive with the same drive letter. Windows seems to manage the shares seamlessly in this case but I do need to reboot the server (I do it that way, I have tried a hot swap). But Acronis is getting confused about what is and is not available.

Can someone suggest a best practice for this scenario?

Sat, 10/26/2013 - 13:38
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