Example 4. Daily full backups with daily drive swaps

Consider the following scenario:

• You want to perform a daily full backup of your machine.
• You want to store the backup on a locally attached USB hard drive in the file MyMachine.tib.
• You have two such drives. You want to swap them before each backup so that one drive contains today’s backup and the other drive yesterday’s backup.
• You want each new backup to replace the backup on the currently attached drive.

In this scenario, create a backup plan with a daily schedule. When creating the backup plan:

• Specify MyMachine as the archive name.
• In Windows, specify D:\ as the archive location, where D is the letter each of the drives has in the operating system when attached to the machine.

  In Linux, create a directory such as /mnt/backup and specify it as the archive location. Each time you attach a drive, make sure to mount it to the mount point /mnt/backup.

• Select the Name backup files using the archive name... check box.
• Select Full as the backup type.

Result. Each hard disk drive will contain one full backup. While one drive is attached to the machine, you can keep the other drive off-site for extra data protection.

In Windows, if you choose to back up to locally attached RDX drives or USB flash drives, the Name backup files using the archive name... check box does not appear. Instead, make sure that the removable device mode is set to Removable media.