I am running into problems with either multiple USB drives or external drives being switched out. Gives errors and I am assuming that the indexes cannot be found as multiple devices are being used…Client would like to take local backups off site. Suggestions?

Hello and welcome to the forum! It sounds like you have a client who is backing up a single set of data to more than one USB device (I assume so they can keep one local and one offsite), is that correct?

@pdphillips Duplicati doesn’t provide functionality for removable media. You could get it to work with some switches that would disable the local database, etc., but that would only be a workaround. Duplicati is designed to backup offsite to a storage medium that doesn’t change.

JonMikeIV: Yes, that is the case…

samw: Bummer, was hoping to use it for multiple media library as well…

[image] samw: Duplicati doesn’t provide functionality for removable media Well, technically Duplicati works fine with removable media when it’s connected but it can get a bit chatty about “errors” when the media is not connected. Though this can be abated a bit by adjusting --send-mail-level …

@JonMikelV Excellent clarification Jon. Another way I worked an issue like this is to basically do the following: Manually change the assigned drive letters to my portable drives in Windows to X: and Y:. This way Windows will remember the drives from their GUIDs. Created two backup jobs with t…

[image] samw: eventually I just built a cheap Remote NAS box and just started backing up using SFTP Nice plan when using Windows Scheduled Tasks. :slight_smile: Out of curiosity, what did you use for your remote NAS and would you be interested in making a How-To for CrashPlan orphans that a…

@JonMikelV I use a FreeNAS box that I just setup in the office and do my home backups directly to it. Not really sure whether a how-to guide is required as my setup is really simple. I just point my job to an external IP of my FTP server and supply the log in credentials. I really like the product a…

[image] samw: I really like the product and was thinking of creating Youtube videos showing how to install and configure, etc. But I suspect they may already be around? FREENAS? Yes, I think there are few. :wink: Of course that doesn’t mean that you couldn’t do better… :smiley: Thanks fo…

I created two backup jobs too. Same source and two different destinations. I use two HD on alternate weeks (on monday of the first week I connect to the NAS “HD10211” until saturday of the same week, then I disconnect it. On monday of the second week, I connect to the NAS another HD, that I rename…

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Backing up to multiple USB or external drives?

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