Ghost File and Folder Backup keeps disabling.

Working with Ghost 12 on an XP Pro SP3 laptop.

 

Two jobs are configured:

 

1) A full Ghost image backup that runs incrementals daily with a full backup each month.

 

2) A file and Folder backup that runs on Sundays.  This backups a folder on one portable external drive to the same drive that the Ghost images go to.

 

The laptop travels... so there are several days a week when the destination drive will be inaccessible.

 

This does not seem to affec t#1,  the Ghost Image task.  It will miss the days the drive is inaccessible... but then run when it is back in the office.

 

#2 however, will frequently show disabled.  We enable it and it will disable again - apparently this happens anytime it cannot find the destination drive (or perhaps the portable external drive [source data]).

 

Any workarounds or suggestions for this situation? 

 

Would version 15 behave any differently?

 

 Comments appreciated.