Windows 8 Backup to Multiple Drives?

Craig321 · 22 Oct 2012 at 18:20

I have two storage drives in my PC & two backup drives.

With Windows 8 File history would I be able to specify two backup locations?

I know I could pool the two backup drives, but not sure I really want to do that as if one fails then I lose the whole backup volume.

Thanks.

ChileanLlama · 22 Oct 2012 at 18:34

No, it only allows one location at a time.

You could use Windows 7 File Recovery (Yes it's not been renamed) to then backup your File History location to your other drive.

theheyes · 22 Oct 2012 at 20:06

Craig321 said:
I know I could pool the two backup drives, but not sure I really want to do that as if one fails then I lose the whole backup volume.

Thanks.

If you create a mirrored space it should work fine.

Craig321 · 22 Oct 2012 at 22:10

Both my storage drives have different content, hence the two backup drives, so unfortunately can't do that

Might just stick with Retrospect. Far more customizable. Would have preferred to go with File History as it's native & integrated etc. but it's a bit meh compared!

Thanks for the replies

theheyes · 22 Oct 2012 at 23:07

Yeah the best backup is the one you know works.