# How to have Kopia prompt be to take snapshot when I connect both external disk and backup disk?

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**Created:** [May 7, 2026, 10:21am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/how-to-have-kopia-prompt-be-to-take-snapshot-when-i-connect-both-external-disk-and-backup-disk/8878 "2026-05-07T10:21:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![uew93h](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/5e9695/32.png) [@uew93h](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/uew93h)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2026, 10:21am UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/how-to-have-kopia-prompt-be-to-take-snapshot-when-i-connect-both-external-disk-and-backup-disk/8878/1 "2026-05-07T10:21:28Z")

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I backup my external disk to another external disk.

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**Author:** ![budy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/kopia.discourse.group/budy/32/38_2.png) [@budy](https://kopia.discourse.group/u/budy)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2026, 2:51pm UTC](https://kopia.discourse.group/t/how-to-have-kopia-prompt-be-to-take-snapshot-when-i-connect-both-external-disk-and-backup-disk/8878/2 "2026-05-09T14:51:35Z")

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Kopia won’t do that, since it is based on a scheduled system. Kopia will however attempt a backup, if one is overdue and the needed resources are available.