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Mapped drive moved to a new location. How do I reconnect to it?

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I moved to a new house and my NAS and other external drives are now at a new IP address.

For the life of me I can't figure out how to change the IP address of all of my scheduled backups. I do not want to start all over.

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Larry, unfortunately this happens from time to time. To avoid this problem I use the device name rather than the IP address - for Synology NAS I used the default device name of DISKSTATION. 

There are several solutions, none of them particularly easy. The one I would try is to remove the backup tasks (you do this by selecting the task, right click on Delete, then select Remove rather than Delete Entirely [I am currently using ACPHO Beta so the wording may be slightly different]). The you add back the backup task, you do this in Add backup part of the GUI; rather than clicking on the + you click on the flattened v at the right, which allows you to add existing backup. You then navigate to the location on the NAS. In my case I just put //DISKSTATION/.

I have done this several times in the past, when I wanted to move the location of the backup files on my NAS.

Hope this helps

Ian

Thanks for the reply. I was afraid of that. I have so many backups set up in so many places that is going to be a mess.

I'm shocked the software does not have the ability to do this.

Thank you

It just occurred to me, that there is another solution. If the NAS software permits, set a static IP address with the same IP address as was used by the old NAS. I would also go into you router and change the IP address so that it is reserved rather than DHCP. If your old NAS is still attached to the Network, change its IP address and reboot to avoid IP conflict. If your NAS has multiple Ethernet ports, you will have to do this for all of them.

Ian 

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Larry Callahan wrote:

Thanks for the reply. I was afraid of that. I have so many backups set up in so many places that is going to be a mess.

I'm shocked the software does not have the ability to do this.

Thank you

Dear Larry,
Unfortunately there is no direct way to update the changed IP-address of the backup destination from the product's interface. I have registered your feedback in the existing change request TI-170272 «Allow changing the plan settings when the target location is not available
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Larry,

I suggest that you search for your mapped drives via their IP address with File Explorer with Network selected.  Once you have the path copy that information.

Next, Remove the backup task from the Backup list in the application via the right click Delete context menu item.  On the Delete popup box select Remove to retain all your backup files and remove the task only from the list.

Next with BACKUP selected in the main app window, look to the bottom of the middle column titled Backups.  You will see a + Add backup, to the right of that you will see what appears as an elongated v symbol.  Click that and select Add existing backup.

On the next screen paste your mapped location you copied in the first step and see if the app can find the location.  Once it does then select it and then click the Add button.

Repeat for all remaining backups.