Cant use windows backup

wigster · 7 Sep 2024 at 14:05

On windows 11 I keep getting a message saying could not find backup devices, this happens when I connect my usb drive, would it be because I am using Veracrypt on the usb hard drive? If I unmount it will find my hard drives in my computer, but i want to back up to my external drive.

wigster · 8 Sep 2024 at 17:36

I am getting frustrated here lol I have now downloaded Veeam all looks good but am I missing something because I cant backup to my external drive that uses VeraCrypt, can this be done? or am I going to have to get another external drive thats not encrypted.

Philtor · 8 Sep 2024 at 20:32

Could try using the free version of AOMEI Backupper to see if that works?

Or just get another drive to keep for backups and not encrypt it? (if the encryption thing is not absolutely necessary that is).

wigster · 8 Sep 2024 at 20:38

Philtor said:
Could try using the free version of AOMEI Backupper to see if that works?

Or just get another drive to keep for backups and not encrypt it? (if the encryption thing is not absolutely necessary that is).

I will try AOMEI Cheers, I really do need to encrypt the drive. I thought Veeam was popular along with VeraCrypt.

wigster · 9 Sep 2024 at 10:20

AOMEI Backupper does see external drives with Veracrypt, Looks pretty simple to use, Just don't like the constant popups to buy.

Philtor · 9 Sep 2024 at 10:34

Hasleo Backup Suite Free is another option. Haven’t used it but heard it’s very good.

wigster · 9 Sep 2024 at 10:36

That's great will also try Hasleo.

andshrew · 9 Sep 2024 at 12:03

Are you sure you want to put your image based backup into an encrypted container? Remember you need to be able to actually access the data in the event that you need to restore the entire image; decrypting the Veracrypt container first isn't going to be something the normal procedure that restoring a Windows backup image would support (although it's likely technically possible, it may not be straight forward).

Veeam has built in support for its own encryption, although I'm not sure if that is reserved for the full enterprise product or if it's available in the free version.

Edit:- as a potential workaround, if it lets you backup to a network location you could probably point it to your drives administrative share.

So if your encrypted container is mounted to W: then you could access it via the "network" using \\localhost\w$

wigster · 9 Sep 2024 at 12:29

andshrew said:
Are you sure you want to put your image based backup into an encrypted container? Remember you need to be able to actually access the data in the event that you need to restore the entire image; decrypting the Veracrypt container first isn't going to be something the normal procedure that restoring a Windows backup image would support (although it's likely technically possible, it may not be straight forward).

Veeam has built in support for its own encryption, although I'm not sure if that is reserved for the full enterprise product or if it's available in the free version.

Edit:- as a potential workaround, if it lets you backup to a network location you could probably point it to your drives administrative share.

So if your encrypted container is mounted to W: then you could access it via the "network" using \\localhost\w$

Good point about it being encrypted didn't think about that, it wouldn't be much of a problem as I could unecrypt the whole drive on my laptop, or maybe I could not encrypt the whole drive.

I never noticed you could do that workaround cheers.