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miqrogroove
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Changing Destination After a Move
I'm moving Backup4all to a different computer.
After installing the Pro trial license and restoring the Backup4all configuration from backup, the backups all point to the wrong drive letter. When I try to change the destination to the new drive letter, I get this dialog:
When changing the destination of the backup, the catalog stored in local catalog folder is deleted. Are you sure you want to continue?
I don't understand this message. It's saying I have to delete my backup catalog in order to point the backup jobs to the correct drive letter? That makes no sense.
After installing the Pro trial license and restoring the Backup4all configuration from backup, the backups all point to the wrong drive letter. When I try to change the destination to the new drive letter, I get this dialog:
When changing the destination of the backup, the catalog stored in local catalog folder is deleted. Are you sure you want to continue?
I don't understand this message. It's saying I have to delete my backup catalog in order to point the backup jobs to the correct drive letter? That makes no sense.
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miqrogroove
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Re: Changing Destination After a Move
Observing the activity in the settings folder, it seems this action simply re-imports the catalogs from the backup. If that's true, then the dialog needs to be changed to say that it will overwrite the local catalog from backup, not simply delete the catalog.
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Adrian (Softland)
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Re: Changing Destination After a Move
Hi,
That is not correct.
When you restored the Backup4all configurations, all backup jobs had the same destination drive letter as they were when you backed up them. The restore will preserve the same drive letters for destination.
On the new computer you probably have other drive letters you wanted to back up to. That is why you wanted to change them.
When you change the backup destination to another location, Backup4all won't continue the backups on an empty destination. It has to start with a fresh new backup.
If your backup destination you want to use on the new computer is the same one and it has all backups there, but it has a different drive letter, you can change the drive letter for that drive from Drive Manager in Windows.
If for some reason that is not possible, you can still continue the backups, but you need to follow these steps:
1. Delete the backup job from Backup4all.
2. Open in Backup4all (from File->Open) the .bkc catalog file from the backup destination.
That will load the backup job in Backup4all and you will be asked is you want to change the backup destination to the new drive. Select Yes.
That is not correct.
When you restored the Backup4all configurations, all backup jobs had the same destination drive letter as they were when you backed up them. The restore will preserve the same drive letters for destination.
On the new computer you probably have other drive letters you wanted to back up to. That is why you wanted to change them.
When you change the backup destination to another location, Backup4all won't continue the backups on an empty destination. It has to start with a fresh new backup.
If your backup destination you want to use on the new computer is the same one and it has all backups there, but it has a different drive letter, you can change the drive letter for that drive from Drive Manager in Windows.
If for some reason that is not possible, you can still continue the backups, but you need to follow these steps:
1. Delete the backup job from Backup4all.
2. Open in Backup4all (from File->Open) the .bkc catalog file from the backup destination.
That will load the backup job in Backup4all and you will be asked is you want to change the backup destination to the new drive. Select Yes.
Do you know you can monitor your backups remotely with Backup4all Monitor? You can read more here: https://www.backup4all.com/backup4all-monitor.html