Restore's Source Not What Was Expected
Running Backup4All v 7.4 in a Windows 10 environment.
I have a backup job whose source is on a directory on my C drive and
is targeted to backup to optical disks. I ran backup
on my target directory and all finished cleanly after the test
was done, creating 16 disks for a 102 gb backup. (I'll never make
one that large again!)
Now just to be sure everything worked as expected, I wanted to do a
test restore of a couple of files from the backup. When I select the
files to restore, instead of restoring from the optical disks, the
restore appears to use the files on the C drive's directory. I say appears because
Backup4All does not ask for optical discs to be mounted, but doesn't
specifically identify the source it is using. (The C-drive files which
were backed up will be removed after I am able to
satisfactorily restore from the optical media.)
I checked the properties on the backup job and it indeed
uses optical as the target and points to the correct DVD/CD
drive.
What have I done wrong, please?
Thanks,
Bill Cole
I have a backup job whose source is on a directory on my C drive and
is targeted to backup to optical disks. I ran backup
on my target directory and all finished cleanly after the test
was done, creating 16 disks for a 102 gb backup. (I'll never make
one that large again!)
Now just to be sure everything worked as expected, I wanted to do a
test restore of a couple of files from the backup. When I select the
files to restore, instead of restoring from the optical disks, the
restore appears to use the files on the C drive's directory. I say appears because
Backup4All does not ask for optical discs to be mounted, but doesn't
specifically identify the source it is using. (The C-drive files which
were backed up will be removed after I am able to
satisfactorily restore from the optical media.)
I checked the properties on the backup job and it indeed
uses optical as the target and points to the correct DVD/CD
drive.
What have I done wrong, please?
Thanks,
Bill Cole
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Re: Restore's Source Not What Was Expected
Hi,
To make sure the files are restored from the optical drive, you can rename the source folder before running the restore.
To make sure the files are restored from the optical drive, you can rename the source folder before running the restore.