Example 4. Daily full backups with daily drive swaps

Consider the following scenario:

• You want to perform daily full backups of your machine to the file MyMachine.tib on an external hard disk drive.
• You have two such drives. Either of them has the drive letter D when attached to the machine.
• You want to swap the drives 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 and D:\ as the archive location, select the Name backup files using the archive name... check box, and 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.