Acronis Backup Multiple Disks Query

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Currently, I have to do a full backup, and then 5 or so incrementals. Then, due to lack of space Acronis then has to delete every backup and create a new full backup.

Now, you can all see the flaw in there. If the drive being backed up happens to fail on the day Acronis does its full backup then I'm a bit stuck.

So, I would like to buy another 1.5TB drive considering they're only £50 now. Ideally I want to do the following:

Day 01, drive A: delete all backups
Day 02, drive A: full backup
Day 03, drive A: incremental
Day 04, drive A: incremental
Day 05, drive A: incremental
Day 06, drive A: incremental
Day 07, drive A: incremental
Day 08, drive B: delete all backups
Day 09, drive B: full backup
Day 10, drive B: incremental
Day 11, drive B: incremental
Day 12, drive B: incremental
Day 13, drive B: incremental
Day 14, drive B: incremental
Repeat

So, as you can see there will never be a point where I'm without a backup. And, unless I'm missing something I should never have more than a day of data loss and should be able to go back about 2 weeks if necessary.

Even more ideally, when Acronis is due to run a full backup it would simply update the existing full backup (delete files that don't exist anymore, etc.), then remove all the incrementals which would mean I could have a safer backup with one drive.

If anyone else has any other suggestions of how I can do this without a second drive, I'm open to suggestions and new programs. I can't think of any other way apart from buying a backup drive double the size of my main drive, which unfortunately don't exist!

So, firstly is the above possible with Acronis, and secondly is there a better way of doing it without a second backup drive?
 
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