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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section V. Configuring backups
  4. Creating backup policies
  5. Policy Attributes tab
  6. Backup Network Drives (policy attribute)
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Backup Network Drives (policy attribute)

The Backup Network Drives attribute is for use on single user systems, Win95, Win98, and ME. These operating systems are not supported with this version of NetBackup. For a computer that is not a NetBackup client, the preferred method for backing up data is to use UNC paths. UNC paths are more precise and indicate exactly what should be backed up.

When you use Backup Network Drives or UNC paths, the network drives must be available to the service account that the NetBackup Client service logs into at startup. By default, the startup account is set to System. You must change this account on each Windows client that is backed up that contains data that is shared from another computer.

This attribute must be enabled for the policies that back up to CD ROM drives. For scheduled backups, the file list must indicate at least the first level of folders to be backed up. For example, D:\Folder1 instead of only D:\

Note:

Mapped drive letters cannot be backed up. Drive letters do not appear in the Backup, Archive, and Restore console when backups are browsed.

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Example of using UNC paths to back up a shared folder

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