Wednesday, March 28, 2012

mapped drive and backups

I mapped a drive to a different server, which has space, then tried to use
Ent. Manager to create a backup job to the mapped drive. Only, the mapped
isn't there only the local drives but the mapped appears locally to the OS.
I forgot something yes?
ThanksHowTo: Backup to UNC name using Database Maintenance Wizard
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555128
Geoff N. Hiten
Senior Database Administrator
Microsoft SQL Server MVP
"BrianMultiLanguage" <BrianMultiLanguage@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:C8DDEE27-FEC9-4FA7-BEFD-03048AA5A774@.microsoft.com...
>I mapped a drive to a different server, which has space, then tried to use
> Ent. Manager to create a backup job to the mapped drive. Only, the mapped
> isn't there only the local drives but the mapped appears locally to the
> OS.
> I forgot something yes?
> Thanks|||Hi
EM will not see mapped drives. Use T-SQL and backup to the UNC path
\\servername\sharename\file.bak.
Make sure that the SQL Server account is a domain account and has
permissions on the share.
Regards
--
Mike Epprecht, Microsoft SQL Server MVP
Zurich, Switzerland
IM: mike@.epprecht.net
MVP Program: http://www.microsoft.com/mvp
Blog: http://www.msmvps.com/epprecht/
"BrianMultiLanguage" <BrianMultiLanguage@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:C8DDEE27-FEC9-4FA7-BEFD-03048AA5A774@.microsoft.com...
>I mapped a drive to a different server, which has space, then tried to use
> Ent. Manager to create a backup job to the mapped drive. Only, the mapped
> isn't there only the local drives but the mapped appears locally to the
> OS.
> I forgot something yes?
> Thanks|||This actually worked.
EXEC sp_addumpdevice 'disk', 'device_name',
'\\filer_name\share_name\path\file_name.ext'
"Mike Epprecht (SQL MVP)" wrote:

> Hi
> EM will not see mapped drives. Use T-SQL and backup to the UNC path
> \\servername\sharename\file.bak.
> Make sure that the SQL Server account is a domain account and has
> permissions on the share.
> Regards
> --
> Mike Epprecht, Microsoft SQL Server MVP
> Zurich, Switzerland
> IM: mike@.epprecht.net
> MVP Program: http://www.microsoft.com/mvp
> Blog: http://www.msmvps.com/epprecht/
> "BrianMultiLanguage" <BrianMultiLanguage@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
in
> message news:C8DDEE27-FEC9-4FA7-BEFD-03048AA5A774@.microsoft.com...
>
>

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