[SOLVED] Backing up to multiple drives

[unknownerrors]

In order to understand what is vexing me some background information is needed.
I have a 40TB backup drive that is nearly full. I need to make a cold storage backup of the backup, but I do NOT want to back everything up to the same drive so I have a bunch of 6tb drives that I have been backing up selected folders to. My problem arose when one of the folders exceeded 6tb in size. Now I do not want to buy larger drives and I do not want to create a spanned or raid array, ideally, I want to fill one 6tb drive with backup data then continue the back up onto another drive. for the life of me I am having a really hard time figuring out a simple way to do this.

I have been using GoodSync to back stuff up but I can't figure out how to get a 1:1>1>1>1(adding more as needed) backup.

Any thoughts or insights would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for taking your time to read and consider the problem either way.

 

[USAFRet]

What is this backing up to?
What sort of system?

"I have a 40TB backup drive "
Details on this?

 

[Lafong]

I have not used every backup app, but have experience with several.

Second Copy, FreeFileSync, SyncBackFree, etc.

Offhand, I'm not aware of any capability that would allow you to back up to more than 1 physical drive with a given "profile" (a given set of source files).

I've never delved into exotic techniques....it might be doable in some fashion that I would personally shy away from due to complexity. I don't want complexity on backups.

 

[USAFRet]

Offhand, I'm not aware of any capability that would allow you to back up to more than 1 physical drive with a given "profile" (a given set of source files).

Macrium Reflect does this natively.

Each of my individual drives has its own schedule, and if needed, different profiles.


The paid version lets you select:
"Some folders go here, other folders go there", etc, etc.

 

[unknownerrors]

the 40TB drive is an iSCSI disk hosted on my local fileserver with a very large RAID either 50 or 60 array, I forget..

Macrium Reflect does this natively.

That is just what I needed, TY very much.

 

[Lafong]

USAF:

Yeah, Macrium is another story. I was referring to ordinary "file by file" apps.

Are you referring to the data backup capability found only in the paid version? The capability that uses compression, shadow copy, temporary mounting, etc and gives you a .mrbak file?

I tried that for data only and gave up. It works, but too many unnecessary hoops to jump through compared to any equivalent of a "drag and drop" when it comes to grabbing a random jpeg or doc file from the backup.

 

[USAFRet]

USAF:

Yeah, Macrium is another story. I was referring to ordinary "file by file" apps.

Are you referring to the data backup capability found only in the paid version? The capability that uses compression, shadow copy, temporary mounting, etc and gives you a .mrbak file?

I tried that for data only and gave up. It works, but too many unnecessary hoops to jump through compared to any equivalent of a "drag and drop" when it comes to grabbing a random jpeg or doc file from the backup.

Macrium is the basis of my entire backup routine.

You can even mount any particular Image as a drive letter, and extract a single file.

Each of the multiple drives in my system backs up nightly, on its own schedule.
C drive - midnight
L drive - 00:30
E drive - 01:00
G drive - 01:30
etc etc

All write to the same folder tree on my NAS.
In addition to all the other systems in the house. Daily or weekly as needed.

The Free version does full drives or partitions exactly the same.