Scheduled backup to an unmounted USB drive

MSP360 Backup Backup Windows
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First, THANKS for starting the forums again. I know they will be helpful.

For a quasi-hybrid approach, I schedule a weekly backup to my “almost offsite” USB drive which is kept in a fireproof safe. [This is in addition to daily backups to other destinations.] Currently, I use a Google calendar reminder to prompt me to go get the drive, connect it, and manually start that backup plan.

Since CloudBerry backup already has such a good scheduler built in, can CloudBerry be configured to also issue a prompt of some sort to mount that drive … and to wait for the mount? [Maybe I should just schedule it and see what happens…]

Thanks again!

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Bob, Have you looked into using a pre/post Actions? You can specify a pre-backup action to map the drive and it will do that every time the job runs.

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Thanks Doug.
Sounds just like what I want. But, how?
I’m using the simple CB Backup Desktop Edition and haven’t found a way to specify the actions. Maybe they’re hiding someplace I haven’t found yet.

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[reply=“Bob Easton;71”] Sorry about that, we have it in our server edition

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OK. Makes sense.

Thanks again.

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[reply=“Bob Easton;75”] we are working on an update that will enable pre/post actions in the desktop edition.

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PERFECT!
I’ll watch for it. Thanks Doug.