How do I back up to a mapped network drive? Backup/restore wizard does
not 'see' may mapped drive? However, I can access the mapped drive just
fine via the browser! PS. Latest build, business edition ...

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the microsoft.public.windows.vista.general news group, Sveh Khan
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> How do I back up to a mapped network drive? Backup/restore wizard does
> not 'see' may mapped drive? However, I can access the mapped drive just
> fine via the browser! PS. Latest build, business edition ...
>

You can't. The built-in backup only backs up local drives. Run a
backup locally on the system that contains the share you're
mapping to.

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with the similar tantalisation that something,
sometime, somehow, will turn up. George Courtauld

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, in
the microsoft.public.windows.vista.general news group, Paul
Adare <(E-Mail Removed)> says...

> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, in
> the microsoft.public.windows.vista.general news group, Sveh Khan
> <(E-Mail Removed)> says...
>
> > How do I back up to a mapped network drive? Backup/restore wizard does
> > not 'see' may mapped drive? However, I can access the mapped drive just
> > fine via the browser! PS. Latest build, business edition ...
> >
>
> You can't. The built-in backup only backs up local drives. Run a
> backup locally on the system that contains the share you're
> mapping to.

Sorry, I misread your question. In any event, you can only
backup _to_ locally attached drives.

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Paul Adare - MVP Virtual Machines
Waiting for a bus is about as thrilling as fishing,
with the similar tantalisation that something,
sometime, somehow, will turn up. George Courtauld

so you cant do a direct mapped drive, but what about the 'map location
in an NFTS folder', that you can do in drive management? use a mapped
drive location as an NFTS folder?

never used NTFS folder mounting tho, so not a clue on it's capabilities.
just a question/idea
tim

Paul Adare wrote:
> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, in
> the microsoft.public.windows.vista.general news group, Paul
> Adare <(E-Mail Removed)> says...
>
>> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, in
>> the microsoft.public.windows.vista.general news group, Sveh Khan
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> says...
>>
>>> How do I back up to a mapped network drive? Backup/restore wizard does
>>> not 'see' may mapped drive? However, I can access the mapped drive just
>>> fine via the browser! PS. Latest build, business edition ...
>>>
>> You can't. The built-in backup only backs up local drives. Run a
>> backup locally on the system that contains the share you're
>> mapping to.
>
> Sorry, I misread your question. In any event, you can only
> backup _to_ locally attached drives.
>

In article <Qv-(E-Mail Removed)>, in the
microsoft.public.windows.vista.general news group, Tim Draper
<(E-Mail Removed)> says...

> so you cant do a direct mapped drive, but what about the 'map location
> in an NFTS folder', that you can do in drive management? use a mapped
> drive location as an NFTS folder?
>
> never used NTFS folder mounting tho, so not a clue on it's capabilities.
> just a question/idea
>

No, you can only mount local volumes this way.

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Paul Adare - MVP Virtual Machines
Waiting for a bus is about as thrilling as fishing,
with the similar tantalisation that something,
sometime, somehow, will turn up. George Courtauld

OK - let me try again: On a LAN server1 (winxp) has a disk shared
(share1). Server2 (vista) maps the share from server1 (\\server1\share1)
as Z: drive. Next I start the vista backup/restore wizard - which only
looking for DVD and 'local' disks.

How do I configure vista backup to back up to my Z: drive (a mapped
network drive)?

In article <ov-dnX0v-(E-Mail Removed)>, in
the microsoft.public.windows.vista.general news group, Sveh Khan
<(E-Mail Removed)> says...

> OK - let me try again: On a LAN server1 (winxp) has a disk shared
> (share1). Server2 (vista) maps the share from server1 (\\server1\share1)
> as Z: drive. Next I start the vista backup/restore wizard - which only
> looking for DVD and 'local' disks.
>
> How do I configure vista backup to back up to my Z: drive (a mapped
> network drive)?
>

Again, you can't. The built-in backup program will only backup
_to_ locally attached drives.

--
Paul Adare - MVP Virtual Machines
Waiting for a bus is about as thrilling as fishing,
with the similar tantalisation that something,
sometime, somehow, will turn up. George Courtauld

I thought that back up to network drive works if you run backup app from
command line...

-iceeagle


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> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, in
> the microsoft.public.windows.vista.general news group, Sveh Khan
> <(E-Mail Removed)> says...
>
>> How do I back up to a mapped network drive? Backup/restore wizard does
>> not 'see' may mapped drive? However, I can access the mapped drive just
>> fine via the browser! PS. Latest build, business edition ...
>>
>
> You can't. The built-in backup only backs up local drives. Run a
> backup locally on the system that contains the share you're
> mapping to.
>
> --
> Paul Adare - MVP Virtual Machines
> Waiting for a bus is about as thrilling as fishing,
> with the similar tantalisation that something,
> sometime, somehow, will turn up. George Courtauld
>