The full version of Acronis is above my budget and is a recurring annual subscription.

The point is for the backup drive to be removed from the system. If I leave the EHD plugged in, Acronis does the backups as scheduled, but doing so kind of adds risk.

I finally found the setting in Acronis that controls that, but it's grayed out and can't be changed in this limited version. It automatically (upon connection of the USB cable) begins and backs up up both drives, one after the other. At this point Acronis loads and begins the backup without waiting for the scheduled time. The next week, just before the next backup is scheduled to begin (within Acronis), I'll plug the EHD back in. Each takes an hour or more so I didn't really want them both running the same day. I have two SSDs installed (C: and E: ) and backups are scheduled one day apart, C: on Wednesday and E: on Thursday. Once a backup to an EHD is completed, I want to disconnect the EHD. The WD version of Acronis has been working OK and saved my tail a few weeks back when an SSD suddenly went toes up.īut I've come to realize there is a problem with it.

It only works if there is at least one WD drive connected to the system. At the time, there was a WD rep here, but they posted that their company was dropping that presence. Some time quite a ways back, I was directed to a 'free' copy of Acronis that is provided in cooperation with Western Digital.

Macrium reflect review 2016