Using Portable and drive letters changing

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spinningwoman
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Joined: Tue Mar 27, 2012 9:04 am

Using Portable and drive letters changing

Post by spinningwoman »

I'm sure this must be on the site somewhere, but I can't see it. I am using the Portable version on an external hard drive. Depending on what other drives etc I have plugged in when I want to make the backup, the drive letter assigned to the backup drive may vary and that seems to cause a problem - it says it has to delete the catalogue and starts the backup process from scratch if the drive letter is different instead of being able to do a differential or incremental backup. My backup directory is a subdirectory of the Softland folder on the external hard drive, as in the default setup.

How can I get it to just work for whatever drive letter is assigned?

Thanks.

Adrian (Softland)
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Joined: Wed Dec 16, 2009 12:46 pm

Re: Using Portable and drive letters changing

Post by Adrian (Softland) »

Hi,

In Backup Properties->External drives, please check the "Lock the destination to this external hard drive" option and press Save.
Do you know you can monitor your backups remotely with Backup4all Monitor? You can read more here: https://www.backup4all.com/backup4all-monitor.html

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