Back up to connected USB drive

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There is an active feature request regarding the USB backup, please take a look:

Local Backup to SATA or USB HDD

The lifetime of four weeks was just an example. Having long snapshot lifetimes could serve as a workaround, but it wouldn’t truly solve the issue. Let’s say I create a snapshot task with a lifetime of six months. To perform a backup, I run a replication task that replicates it to my backup drive. Now, suppose I don’t perform a backup for seven months for whatever reason (not recommended). When I return to do another backup, the snapshot on the source no longer exists. As a result, there are…