Backing up to a network drive

Hi Steve,

What you are experiencing is correct, ABR11 will not show any mapped drives when setting up a backup plan, the reasion for this is that mapped drives are user specific... For example if you are setting up the backup job under the username Steve, when the backup runs as a service that user will not have the same mapped drives or if another user is logged in they also will not have the same mapped drives (hope I explained that ok)... This is not an issue at all and has been done by design to avoid missing drives and failed backups.

What you need to do is use the full UNC path or direct IP address of your NAS unit... for example browse your network for the share or enter the address such as ("\\192.168.0.100\networkshare\" OR "\\NAS\Share") when it comes to entering the username being a Linux based NAS I've found most people use local authentication and not domain authentication to avoid any issue I would recommend using local authentication with any Linux based NAS as it seems more reliable. To do this when authenticating to your NAS unit to browse the shares enter the name of the NAS or IP address then the username (for example Username: "NAS\LOCALUSERNAME" OR "192.168.0.100\LOCALUSERNAME")...

That should get you up and running... All the best!