Windows 7 Backup Question

Dunks · 2 Jan 2011 at 19:22

Hey guys,

I've recently started backing up to an exteral eSATA hard drive. When creating the backup it let's me choose the destination where it lists the external drive.

After running the backup, the files are placed into the root directory of the drive, but I can't seem to find an option to backup to a specific folder of the drive.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

J.B · 2 Jan 2011 at 22:30

The only solution I can think of is to make the drive a network share, then use the backup util to point to a network location. So yours would be \\127.0.0.1\ExtDrive\MyBackups or whatever.

There might be a better way but thats the only way I could think of doing it.

Dunks · 2 Jan 2011 at 22:35

Thanks

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I'm surprised windows didn't include such a feature!

J.B · 2 Jan 2011 at 22:36

Me too, Im fairly sure that on the server equivalents it lets you set the directory.

Dunks · 2 Jan 2011 at 22:53

I'm assuming there'll be zero (or neglible) performance loss using this method?

J.B · 3 Jan 2011 at 10:13

Yeah, I cant see how there would be any performance loss doing it like this.

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