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Backup when harddrive is connected

T_Ball
Level 2
Hi,

We have a hard drive that we would like to backup to automatically every time the unit is connected to the computer. It is an external fire wire hard drive. Basically, the office manager takes it home with her every day, and when she comes in the morning, she plugs it back into the server. I'd like a backup of a certain hard drive to initiate at that point. Is that possible to set up using Backup Exec?

Thanks!
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Keith_Langmead
Level 6
I don't think there is any way to get the backup job to initiate as soon as teh drive is there, as apart from anything else Backup Exec won't keep polling to see if it has been connected, so won't know if it's there or not.

Your best best is to set it up as a removeable backup to disk drive, point your backup job at it, and then determine a time when you'll be sure the office manager will have connected it to the server (allowing time for her to be late or what ever obviously), so it can then run automatically each day, and be completed by the time she leaves and disconnects it again.

If you don't want to worry about checking it all the time, you probably also want to ensure you check the option in Priority and Availability to automatically cancel the the job after a period of time to ensure it has been cancelled and re-scheduled for the next day in case for some reason she doesn't connect it in time one day.

Deepali_Badave
Level 6
Employee
Hello,

As replied in the earlier pos it is not possible to get the backup job to initiate as soon as the drive is there.

However you can programme it accordingly.

Regards,