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n5tkn: First, when you do print jobs, do you have "job jackets" that you store papers and such in? If so, every time you complete a job, BURN A CD/DVD and stick it in the job jacket. If you wanna keep the job around on the server for convenience, fine. But at least you'll know that every completed job is backed up on disk if all else fails.

Now that we've addressed that, we still need to back up the working data on the server. CAUTION: It's very easy to think you've got it all cleverly schemed and then back away from monitoring it because ... Ooooh ... it's scripted and automatic! In the real world, things happen, drives break, software fails for one reason or another. Therefore the only real way to maintain a reliable backup is to be involved in the "maintaining" part of it. You need to check on it every day and make sure it's doing it's job, otherwise, you're at risk.

If you called me in to consult on your situation with the information that you have provided, I would suggest that you label each of your two drives "Backup A" & "Backup B". On A, you'll name your partitions 1 and 3. On drive B, you'll name your partitions 2 and 4. On your first week, you'll back up to the partition labeled "1" (drive A). On the second week, you'll back up to partition "2" (drive B), then on the third week partition "3" (drive A), then on the 4th week, partition 4 (drive B). This way, you're alternation drives each week and maximizing use of your partitions. You'll always know what week you're on because after partition "4", you'll start over again on "1".

Using this method, you don't have to "real quick move data from the first partition to the second partition" (as you suggested). Doing so would risk your data because it requires you to delete a backup BEFORE backing up again -- absurd!

To make it simple, get ChronoSync. Setup one backup schedule. Then each day/week when you swap drives, drag the appropriate partition into your target in the ChronoSync schedule you created.