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Trying to set up backup to a mapped drive on my 2008 Server

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Hello all,

I have a mapped drive on my server, but when I try to set up the backup location, it doesn't show the mapped drive.

Any suggestion please.

Thanks,

Leo

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Hello Patty, 

Yes, this is mostly true. 

This is due to the way network drives work in Windows: the drives are mapped per user during logon and are not a permament entinty. Our backup usually runs from a competely different service user account and so the mapped drive will simply not exist from the point of view of the backup task. 

There might be ways to workaround this (by mapping the drive from the backup task itself using a prescript, for example), but we don't really test an official solution to this because UNC paths are fully supported in the product. 

Could you clarify what specific scenario you have in mind that can't be covered by backing up directly to the network path instead of a mapped drive?