VVEngine Not Recognising Mapped Network Drives

pbugler · Joined: 27 Jul 2013 Posts: 3

I recently moved from Windows 7 to Windows 8. Since the change, VVEngine (v2.1 (Build 2103)) scheduled backups no longer recognise my network drives and the only schedule that works is one that has both source and target on the host machine.

This is rather mystifying as no other programs are having trouble recognising the network drives and I can run the backups manually using ViceVersa Pro so it seems the problem has something to do with VVEngine only. I haven't changed the configuration of the network other than to move to Windows 8 on the host machine.

Any help would be appreciated.

TGRMN Software · Site Admin Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 8758

Hi, are you using a mapped drive or the UN path ( e.g. \\computer\share\ ) thanks
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pbugler · Joined: 27 Jul 2013 Posts: 3

The drives are mapped. This has worked well in the past when I was operating under Windows 7.

Cheers,

pbugler · Joined: 27 Jul 2013 Posts: 3

Success, I've replaced all the mapped drives with the underlying path and the backups are now working. Thank you for the suggestion - though it still seems an odd problem to arise. Thanks again for the help.

Cheers,
Paul

TGRMN Software · Site Admin Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 8758

Hi, not sure why it was working in Win 7 and not in Win 8, I would have expected the mapped drives not to work in Win 7 either, please see: http://www.tgrmn.com/web/kb/item93.htm

But great that it's working now!
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