Unable to backup SQL databases to Cloud Storage

[william.brandle@ckc.com]

We are using ViceVersa Pro 2.5 Build 2514 64-bit.
We have server on-premise and Microsoft Azure cloud servers. Access to cloud server storage acts no difference from our on-premise servers not even much of a latency difference. With that said, I have created a storage resource. I have setup ViceVersa Pro to backup databases to the cloud storage but fails. I have tried using the exact path (e.g. \\server\e$\SQL2005\Data) and, also using a mapped drive to the resource. ViceVersa Pro is running on the Cloud server and has no problem backing up other on-premise data only has a problem with SQL databases. The error I get is “Volume Shadow Copy Creation Failed. Volume not found. Volume Shadow Copies are only supported for Local volumes”. If I try without Volume Shadow Copy Service enabled I get “Cannot open “z:\database.mdf”. The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process”.
Can you assist?

[TGRMN Software]

Hi, in Windows the Volume Shadow Copies are only supported for local drives, not for drives accessed over the network.
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[william.brandle@ckc.com]

So are you telling me there is no way to use ViceVersa to do SQL backups over the network or there is a different way to do it? If there is another way of doing it please provide details.

[TGRMN Software]

Hi, the only way is to have ViceVersa running on the machine where the SQL dbs are. This is valid for all Windows software not only ViceVersa.
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