Offsite backup strategy, Alternating Backup Devices For Taking Offsite

I've managed a Windows SBS 2003 server for some time and part of our backup plan has been to alternate backups to different hard drives and that one of the drives off site each week. Windows Server 2012 R2, seems to have a different configuration of adding
hard drives to a pool of drives for backups. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how best achieve my objective here? Yes I know we can the off site backups but at this time we prefer do it this way. More than likely the off site backup will be added later
but since it's a start up business we're trying to trim the fat right now as best we can. I was hoping to use Windows' backup instead of third party software but am willing to hear comments and/or suggestions. Thanks
Vern

Hi Vern:
I think the article below is written back to front, sort of, but if you scroll down a bit you will see that rotating external drives will work very well.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj713501.aspx
I suggest three drives and daily rotations. That way "yesterday" should be out of the building when "today" and "tomorrow" are in the building
to be switched out.
Larry Struckmeyer[MVP] If your question is answered please mark the response as the answer so that others can benefit.

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