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I am testing and considering purchasing but I am not finding a feature that I require. I will be performing backups of a Hyper-V host and two virtual machines to a local disk on the host using your product. I see no option to add a second location for the same backup job. In our old scheme we backed up to an internal drive on the server as described but also rotated daliy connecting two USB "offsite drives" that were updated with exact copies of the previous nights backup and rotated off premises nightly. This was done using SSR. Do you have a similar feature? Perhaps a simple way to accomplish same? It is almost as if acronis is trying to force cloud storage purchase/usage. I do not like to have my options limited in this way. Otherwise I really like the product so far.

Please tell me I am wrong and there is a way to utilize USB removable offsite drives in this manner?

Thanks,

~Paul

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Hi Paul,

Backing up to a second location is named "Replicate Backups" in AB12 as shown in the screenshot. This option is only available if you have already specified a primary backup destination and activated replicate backups.

It should be possible to backup to a USB drive as long as a drive letter is assigned. The removable USB must be connected to the Hyper-V host (where the Agent for Hyper-V in installed).

Please also have a look in the Online Help - Replication.

 

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Thanks for the prompt response. I boned up on the replication section and I am happy that I can replicate to either an external USB drive or cloud storage but what about an option for both instead of one oir the other? Also why can I not add a second external USB drive for replication if I like? I like to rotate my USB offsite storage nightly.

Is there any way that supporting multiple locations to replicate backups can be added in an update?

Thanks again,

~Paul

If the two USB drives are connected permanently you could create two separate backup jobs. The first including a backup and the first USB drive, the second drive is used in the second backup plan.

When you rotate the USB drives manually so they can share a drive letter it should be possible to re-use both drives in one backup plan.

Another option might be using scripts. There is a Post-backup command you could use for copying the archive in a batch script to the second USB drive.