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Backup assistance
I am a photographer with currently 5.5TB of data stored across 4x2 TB drives on a READYNAS 314 which is accessed via both PCs and Macs. It is imperative that I keep multiple off-site back-ups howe...
I don't think the folder backups in readycloud will help you. One reason is that they don't allow you to select any folder on the PC.
Other posters here have found that the OS6 backups don't handle multiple USB drives very well. I don't use that approach myself, so I don't have any suggestions on it. Perhaps others will chime in.
Part of my NAS backup involves copying NAS shares to PC-connected drives. I've built this into the Acronis backups (using an older version than you are using). You can specify a post-backup (or pre-backup) script that Acronis will run as part of its backup job. I've written one that uses robocopy to do incremental backups to a PC drive. I do this on two different PCs, which are running different scripts. I'm using internal drives, but there is no reason you can't do the same thing using USB drives.
It does require some ability to create a windows command script though.
Other posters here have found that the OS6 backups don't handle multiple USB drives very well. I don't use that approach myself, so I don't have any suggestions on it. Perhaps others will chime in.
Part of my NAS backup involves copying NAS shares to PC-connected drives. I've built this into the Acronis backups (using an older version than you are using). You can specify a post-backup (or pre-backup) script that Acronis will run as part of its backup job. I've written one that uses robocopy to do incremental backups to a PC drive. I do this on two different PCs, which are running different scripts. I'm using internal drives, but there is no reason you can't do the same thing using USB drives.
It does require some ability to create a windows command script though.
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