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by apankrat 2540 days ago
Re: splitting a backup across several drives - this has unique UI requirements that aren't compatible with bvckup2's core Engine/UI model. The engine runs all backups autonomously and the UI merely shows the progress. Conversely, split backups are interactive - eject A, insert B, etc.
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Sure, though my use case would look more like treating multiple destination devices as one logical AND, and running the backup only when all are present. I wouldn't need any guarantees w/r/t which files land on which device or the order they're written to, only that if sum(destination device storage) > size of folder to be backed up, everything from the folder makes it onto one of the devices.
OK, I see. That's a good case, let me think about it.