Changing Source Machines & Changing Destination Server Locations?

trezcan, in regards to disaster recovery / hardware failure you might want to check out this Topic:

For changing destination locations, yes - it’s pretty much as simple as copying/moving the destination data from one place to another and upating the backup job (or creating a new one) to point to the appropriate path at the new destination.

If you’re workin with USB drives in a Windows environment you might want to check out this page which includes information about the --alternate-destination-marker and --alternate-target-paths parameters which help to deal with Windows sometimes assigning different drive letters the a drive each time you connect it.

For example, you back up to USB at drive letter F then unplug the drive and put it away for safe keeping. For your next backup you already have a thumb drive plugged in and IT got assigned drive letter F so now when you plug in your USB backup drive it gets assigned drive G.

Let us know if these don’t help answer your question! :slight_smile:

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