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New Backup Job - where are my folders?
I lost a drive and decided to reformat in Raid 1. After that, I deleted all my backup jobs and started over. When adding a new job, my folders are missing. Nothing under the root Drive folder. The co...
chuckd83 wrote:
I lost a drive and decided to reformat in Raid 1. When adding a new job, my folders are missing.
When you created a new volume, of course the old shares were all destroyed. Although some shares are created by default during a factory default, none are created automatically when you manually create a new volume.
So after you reformatted you needed to re-create the shares.
Shares are there.
chuckd83 wrote:
Shares are there.
These are not shares. They are folders within a specific "private" user share.
The shares are in the left pane (and these folders are in the user share you blotted out).
Thanks Stephen.
I can see them now.
Indeed, those are NOT "shares".
But from the backup job creation wizard, you can still browse to these folders to select the source. From the left pane of the pop-up, click on the tiny arrow beside "Home Folders", then expand down until you reach the folder you want to select (a bit like on Windows Explorer).
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