2 Rotating Backup HDD's Windows 7
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Monday, March 11, 2013 3:30 PM
Hello Community,
Can I use 2 rotating Backup Harddisks for my Windows 7 Backup? As I know i cant, do you have some solutions?
Regards,
ToniLovesHisPrivacy
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Monday, March 11, 2013 4:49 PM
If you want to use external eSATA or USB hard drives and use 2 or more, there is nothing stopping you from doing it. If you are going to do this I recommend you do a full backup with image each time so you have all your system and data in one place on each and every drive you use.
You can even do it with 3 or more dives mounted internally and designate which drive you want to back to up to each time. Do not back up to the system drive (usually C:) as someone discovered the backup becomes recursive and keeps getting bigger and bigger each time you do this because it included the previous backup in the current backup.
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013 12:43 AM
How to create and save multiple image backups:
How you can use Windows 7 Backup and Restore to create and store multiple image backups to a USB drive that has limitedfree space. This article is based on a Windows 7 user who asked why backup and restore does not maintain multiple versions
of system images as advertised.
http://www.pagestart.com/win7bckuprstr06281001.htmlJ W Stuart: http://www.pagestart.com
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013 7:34 AM
@J W Stuart
That is not the Problem I have.
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@Rick DEE
I will be a little more detailed:
My Setup:
1 PC with Windows 7.
2 external USB Harddrives with each 1 TB.I want that this 2 external Harddrives will rotate. Means, that when I leave the Office in evening I change the HDD and take the otherone with the newest Backup with me. In Windows 2008 Server it can be configured that the Backup rotates to 2 HDDs, but not in Windows 7. How can I solve this for Windows 7?
Regards,
ToniLovesHisPrivacy -
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 10:30 AM
Apparently that capability is not inherent in Windows 7.
Here is one solution I found searching the internet: http://www.networksteve.com/windows/topic.php?TopicId=14082
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Monday, March 18, 2013 8:15 AMModerator
Hi Toni,
How’s everything going? Please feel free to give me any update.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Leo Huang
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Monday, March 18, 2013 8:45 AM
Hi Leo Huang,
I havent fount a solution with the Microsoft Tools. Now i will try it with Acronis.
Thanks for helping,
ToniLovesHisPrivacy
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Monday, March 18, 2013 1:29 PM
Acronis does have scheduals you can confiure. you may laso want to look into Windows 7 Task Scheduler and confiure a script.
J W Stuart: http://www.pagestart.com
Never be afraid to ask. This forum has some of the best people in the world available to help.
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Monday, March 18, 2013 2:06 PMyes but i dont want to use a script because i need support if something fails and with acronis it is perfekt. Further Acronis is supporting a BMR on different Hardware.
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Monday, March 25, 2013 9:01 AMModerator
Hi,
Since there’s no internal tool from Microsoft can active your purpose, third party tools maybe an option. But you’d better backup your personal file regularly for third party tools may lead unexpected issue.
If you have any trouble with Acronis, you can contact Acronis support for further help:
http://www.acronis.com/support/
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Friday, March 29, 2013 8:15 AMModerator
Hi Toni,
How are you? I would appreciate it
if you could drop me an update to let me know the status of the issue. If you
have any questions or concerns, please feel free to let me know. I am happy to
be of further assistance. :)
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