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hot swap sata hard drives instead of tape?

599116367
Level 2
Partner
I have purchased an ezswap sata enclosure for my server and am attempting to do a removable backup-to-disk to it.  It works fine but, when I swap out the drive for another one, the new drive is not recognized.  The only way I can get it to work is by going into disk manager and "reactivating" the drive.  Am I missing something?  Or, should I be able to do what I describe here without having to manually reactivate the drive every day when I swap them out?
 
Is anyone else successfully backing up to removable hard drives?
 
Thanks
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Ken_Putnam
Level 6
Do you use the removeable media wizard to tell BackupExec you are swapping drives?  or do you just swap them?
 
You can try Pause/Unpause on the folders to force the change
 
(Are  you rying to do this with both removable drives mapped to the same drive letter?  Veritas Symantec have always said that you cannot do this, but must have a dedicated B2D folder on a dedicated drive letter for each physical disk)