Jonathan Wilkins

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Thanks Jonathan - Happy to help and good luck with backups.
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Thanks Jonathan - Happy to help and good luck with backups.

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Does anyone know if there is a way to do 5 day week backup on 5 different external hard drives rotation on server 2016 or would I need to purchase software to do that?
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Does anyone know if there is a way to do 5 day week backup on 5 different external hard drives rotation on server 2016 or would I need to purchase software to do that?

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