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I will try that but I'm wondering why they have the option in the dashboard to add a drive if it doesn't work.
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I will try that but I'm wondering why they have the option in the dashboard to add a drive if it doesn't work.

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I honestly do not know. &nbsp;I do know that sometimes I have been able to add multiple backup disks, but if I run into any issues, I just revert to the manual method.<br />
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I honestly do not know.  I do know that sometimes I have been able to add multiple backup disks, but if I run into any issues, I just revert to the manual method.

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You might also check out:<br />
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<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2833738" rel="ugc">http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2833738</a><br />
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You might also check out:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2833738 [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2833738]

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I'm not getting any error when the backup runs, just that there's no backup device. Also no error when I add the device, just have to keep adding it. I'll try adding them both manually while they're both connected. Thanks!
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I'm not getting any error when the backup runs, just that there's no backup device. Also no error when I add the device, just have to keep adding it. I'll try adding them both manually while they're both connected. Thanks!

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Set up server backup, using two 2TB Seagate ext USB portable drives. I've been thru the process with both drives to add the drive to the backup. The drives are swapped each day. When one drive is removed and the other connected I can see the drive in Disk Management but the backup does not see it, &nbsp;I get a message on the dashboard that there's a drive available for backup but in Hard Drives it's not listed. I have to go thru the backup setup again. Is there a missing step here? Do we need to eject the drive first? I've not had to do this at other sites.
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Set up server backup, using two 2TB Seagate ext USB portable drives. I've been thru the process with both drives to add the drive to the backup. The drives are swapped each day. When one drive is removed and the other connected I can see the drive in Disk Management but the backup does not see it,  I get a message on the dashboard that there's a drive available for backup but in Hard Drives it's not listed. I have to go thru the backup setup again. Is there a missing step here? Do we need to eject the drive first? I've not had to do this at other sites.

Windows Server Essentials 2012 R2 Backup devices have to be added each time

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.