{"id":2508,"date":"2014-10-20T20:59:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T19:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/?p=2508"},"modified":"2014-10-20T20:59:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T19:59:24","slug":"windows-backup-adding-multiple-external-hdds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/2014\/10\/windows-backup-adding-multiple-external-hdds\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Backup | Adding Multiple External HDDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Backup can be configured to use multiple external hard drives as the target. This way you can setup a hard drive rotation system i.e. Mon: USB_HDD1, Tue: USB_HDD2, Wed: USB_HDD1<\/p>\n<p>Ideally both HDDS (or more) need to be connected at the same time when you configure the backup from the GUI. If you <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>do not<\/strong><\/span> have both HDDS connected this can be accomplished using the <a title=\"WBAdmin Tool\" href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/L7cWqS\" target=\"_blank\">WBADMIN<\/a> command line tool.<\/p>\n<p>Locate the HDD identifier using &#8220;get disk&#8221; and add it to the job using &#8220;-addtarget&#8221;.<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"basic\">wbadmin get disks<\/pre>\n<pre lang=\"basic\">WBADMIN ENABLE BACKUP -addtarget:{xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx}<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Error message when you try to add an additional disk to a scheduled backup: &quot;The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/zjBiEQ\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/zjBiEQ<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Backup can be configured to use multiple external hard drives as the target. This way you can setup a hard drive rotation system i.e. Mon: USB_HDD1, Tue: USB_HDD2, Wed: USB_HDD1 Ideally both HDDS (or more) need to be connected at the same time when you configure the backup from the GUI. If you do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,23,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-7","category-windows-server-2008","category-windows-server-2012"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOPt8-Es","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2509,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}