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Windows Small Business Server 2011 Server Backup - Add a New Disk

Greetings,

On windows small business server 2011 built in server backup is there a way to add a disk to the backup after it is configured and working.

I originally had one external drive and I configured the backup with it. It formats the drive and after that the drive is dedicated to the backup. Now I would like to add a second external hard drive so they can be used in rotation.

I see that I can reconfigure the backup but it looks like it will reformat both drives. Is this the standard way of adding a drive or is there a way to add the new drive with out reformatting the original drive.

Thanks very much.

Sky

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pgm554

The only gotcha is no 4k sector drives are supported with windows backup.

Schuyler Kuhl

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Thank you. I had an error message when I added the second drive, I think because the first drive was already formatted and in service but I unplugged it at the time I was running the setup.

I will work on this. Thank you.

Schuyler Kuhl

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Thank you very much. I had configured the backup with one drive attached. Then when I attached the second drive I went through the setup and it looked like it was going to format both drives during the configuration.

So I was concerned but then when it proceeded the previous backups were still available.

Thank you for your help.