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Trialing 2013 True Image; No option to backup partition to a network share

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Running a Trial on 2013 True Image; I created a boot CD and a boot USB drive. Neither have an option to backup partition to a network share. Only options are Local Disks, FTP and NAS.... Is this by design? See attached... This is what I NEED to test before we purchase this product. Thanks!

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When using ATI with a network drive, use a UNC path to your NAS device for a backup destination, not a typical friendly "mapped" drive.
e.g.
\\192.168.2.25\My Backups\

I believe it may also be possible to use a UNC path that includes server name rather than IP, such as
\\server1\My Backups\

hi thank you for the tip. I tried that and I believe it is not detecting the NIC. I am testing on a Dell Latitude D620. Too old? I booted a more current laptop and I can in fact use a network share. Do I have any options here or do I need to find another machine to test?

I don't see what testing another PC would achieve. You already determined that the bootable Rescue Disk does work to backup a more current laptop to the network location. So, you know the ATI software works.

It's possible that the ATI bootable Rescue Disk doesn't support the particular hardware in the Dell. The ATI bootable Rescue Disk is Linux-based, so doesn't support all the same hardware that the Windows application would. But, make sure that Dell can reliably access the network location (without ATI) just to see if there might be a hardware issue with that Dell.

If you plan normally to do the backups from within Windows, the lack of recognition of the Dell nic by the bootable Rescue Disk may not be a problem, as from within Windows it should work fine.

I plan to test live USB image backups/restores. I want to do/test the following...
- create an image using windows server/workstation/linux
- boot with a live USB boot media
- save image to a network share
- deploy this image to many other like hardware
for instance, if I have 50 of the exact same server, I can install one, create the image and redeploy to all other servers quickly...

I verified that since this is a trial version, I am not allowed to create images so I am already moving on to test another product that will allow this.

Steve,

What do you mean by 'since this is a trial version. I am not allowed to make images'? The trial version should allow you to make images for 30 days from installation, the only provisos being you can't clone using the recovery media and the recovery media will only allow restores.

However, I believe you are trialling the wrong products for what youy want, SnapDeploy 4 is the product that allows a master image to be made, stored on a server and then either restored or deployed to other PCs.