Point taken. Thanks

Thanks for the detailed answer. I think your second option of backing up targets on internal drives and then backing up the starwind server with Windows server backup sounds like the best choice.

I am using the Starwind version 5.7 free edition at my shop for Windows Server Backup (2008 R2) backup targets. I created iscsi targets for all of my servers on a 1.5TB portable USB drive and that is working very well. I would now like to create targets on 4 more portable USB drives and begin an off...