07-19-2020 01:42 PM
Recently installed 21 on Hyper-V 2016 after running 2010 R3 for about a decade.
I'm trying to connect to a remote server and folder using \\server\d$\folder. I DO NOT WANT to share the folder since getting hit with ransomware back in December.
But when I try to add storage with the admin share it says administrative shares are not allowed and if I map a drive letter to the folder it says it's a "CD-ROM, DVD-ROM or RAM drive" and that's not allowed.
I have not yet installed the agent from this version on that server, would that make a difference? Is there some step further in setting up a backup job that would allow it? Perhaps some option in settings?
Thanks. Mike
07-19-2020 11:02 PM
What you can do is
1) Load the agent on the source server.
2) Create a job to back up this server and then exclude everything except the folder(s) that you want to back up.
08-19-2020 03:10 PM
Thanks for the response. I apologize for this late reply but I thought I'd checked the setting to be alerted when there were any responses.
I'll install the agent on a test machine (which is what I should have done to begin with) and see how it works. Thanks again
08-19-2020 04:23 PM
Actually, I was not clear in my OP. I want to use the remote machine as the backup target, not the source. So I'm trying to create a 'disk storage device' on a remote machine, using that machine's administrative share. Again, since I got hit with ransomware last year, and my BEWS backups were encrypted, I definitely want to avoid as many shares as possible.
This is what I see:
Thanks!