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chrisb691
Aspirant
Feb 22, 2019

Backup to NAS fills local drive

I have my NAS connected to my router, and backup my laptop to it via a wireless connection to the router. I have a share setup as a mapped drive on the laptop. The backups complete successfully, but ...
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chrisb691
Aspirant
Feb 22, 2019

Thanks Stephen,

 

Offline files was already disabled, so that's not it.

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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Feb 22, 2019

Well, C:\owner\appdata\roaming\microsoft\windows\network shortcuts is empty on my Win10 PCs.  I also use Acronis TrueImage to back them up to the NAS.

 

What version of Windows are you using?

Have you checked the NAS to make sure that Acronis is backing up to the NAS?

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    chrisb691
    Aspirant
    Feb 22, 2019

    Hi Stephen,

    I am on windows 10, and the NAS is definitely getting the backups. Are you backing up via wireless, or cable connection to the NAS?

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      StephenB
      Guru - Experienced User
      Feb 22, 2019
      chrisb691 wrote:

      Are you backing up via wireless, or cable connection to the NAS?

      Both wireless and ethernet.  The Acronis target is set directly to the NAS share ( \\nas-ip-address\sharename )

       

      FWIW, I do this from 4 Win10 PCs.

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