Backing up files to alternating hard drives

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Steve

I created file backups on two removable network hard drives so I can
regularly do incremental backups on the alternative disks. I want to keep one
disk offsite and switch them regularly.

When I try to alternate backup network hard drives the incremental backups
fail. Message reads: “The backup location cannot be found or is not valid.â€Â
How can I regularly make incremental backups to these alternating removable
network hard drives?
 
Steve wrote:

> I created file backups on two removable network hard drives so I can
> regularly do incremental backups on the alternative disks. I want to keep
> one disk offsite and switch them regularly.
>
> When I try to alternate backup network hard drives the incremental backups
> fail. Message reads: ?The backup location cannot be found or is not
> valid.? How can I regularly make incremental backups to these alternating
> removable network hard drives?

You'll need to do a full backup once on each hard drive. Then you can do
incremental backups. An incremental backup has to have something to be
incremental *from*!

Malke
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Thanks, but I did create an initial full backup on both hard drives
before doing incremental backups. Seems that each incremental backup
wants to add to the last full backup done, not the backup on whichever
hard drive is in the server at the time. I'm looking for a away around
this problem.


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steven2
 
Thanks, but I did make full backups on each removable hard drive first.
Incremental backups only seem to work on the disk with the latest full
backup, so when I swich drives the incremental backups fail. I'm
looking for a solution to this problem.


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steven2
 
I have exactly same problem. I'm wondering if backup has a multiple
capability, or if better, more comprehensive, software has to be purchased.
I thought that in older versions of windows, there was an option to do
multiple schedules, or maybe I'm just thinking about "Scheduled Tasks"

"steven2" wrote:

>
> Thanks, but I did make full backups on each removable hard drive first.
> Incremental backups only seem to work on the disk with the latest full
> backup, so when I swich drives the incremental backups fail. I'm
> looking for a solution to this problem.
>
>
> --
> steven2
>
 
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