Originally posted by: n5red

I'm looking at HMC backups and wondering if I can automate the management of backup HMC data on a flash drive. From what I can find, it is possible to back up to a flash drive and to format a flash drive. What I haven't been able to find is how to keep a small number of backups on the drive. Is there a practical way to keep a fixed number of backups (like 3) on a flash drive? For that matter is there a practical way to keep a single backup on the drive by not deleting the previous backup until the current backup completes?

The very limited access to the power and flexibility of the underlying HMC operating system can be frustrating at times.
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Originally posted by: nagger

Hi,
I know of no way to do this.

I would hope you are removing the USB Flash drive off site so that you can recover from a site disaster and so should be using three flash drives.

Thanks, Nigel Griffiths.
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Originally posted by: n5red

I'm not even on site with half of these. The USB drives are not the only backup, they are there for convienence when something goes very wrong. We are also doing an over the network backup to our usual backup system as well. The folks managing that do an excellent job with off site backups.

So it looks like reformatting and then backing up may be the only solution. I don't like the period when there is no backup or an incomplete backup on the thumb drive, but it sounds like that's the only practical solution.

If anybody else has suggestions, please speak up!
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