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jmespo
15 years ago

Bacup to a network drive-Backup Exec 10D

Good Morning I have searched this forum for an answer to my question, but seem to have found conflicting answers.  We are trying to do a backup to a network drive.  The drive is mapped and I can ...
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  • JS-NS's avatar
    JS-NS
    15 years ago
    I've just set up a NAS as a secondary backup device and it works fine.

    I found this thread because I had the same problem. I'd created a "Backups" folder on the NAS and mapped a drive to it on the backup server, but got the "path not found" error when trying to use the mapped drive as a backup-to-disk location.

    When setting up a new backup to disk location, instead of browsing for a mapped drive I directly entered the UNC path -  \\ NAS Storage \ Backups
    You need to make sure this folder location isn't used for anything else because Backup Exec will effectively wipe and format it for exclusive use. 
    You can check if has worked successfully by opening the folder in Windows Explorer - you should see two new files - Changer.cfg and Folder.cfg
JS-NS's avatar
JS-NS
15 years ago
I've just set up a NAS as a secondary backup device and it works fine.

I found this thread because I had the same problem. I'd created a "Backups" folder on the NAS and mapped a drive to it on the backup server, but got the "path not found" error when trying to use the mapped drive as a backup-to-disk location.

When setting up a new backup to disk location, instead of browsing for a mapped drive I directly entered the UNC path -  \\ NAS Storage \ Backups
You need to make sure this folder location isn't used for anything else because Backup Exec will effectively wipe and format it for exclusive use. 
You can check if has worked successfully by opening the folder in Windows Explorer - you should see two new files - Changer.cfg and Folder.cfg