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Retired_Member

May 10, 2020

READYNAS Duo v2

Can anybody help? I'm trying to setup a backup on my ReadyNAS as follows: Source: ReadyNAS/USB_HDD_1 Destination: MyPC/u$/ReadyNAS When it starts backing up, instead of backuping up to U:\Re...

StephenB

Guru - Experienced User

May 10, 2020

Share the ReadyNAS folder on the PC, and drop the U$ in the backup job configuration.

Retired_Member
May 10, 2020
I would like to use the built in Administrator share u$ if possible.
- Retired_Member
  May 10, 2020
  If I go the opposite way from MyPC/u$ to the ReadyNAS it works fine.
- StephenB
  Guru - Experienced User
  May 10, 2020
  Retired_Member wrote:
  
  I would like to use the built in Administrator share u$ if possible.
  
  Why?
  
  FWIW, you could alternatively access the share using u$ from another Windows PC in file explorer, and note the full path name there.
  - Sandshark
    Sensei
    May 11, 2020
    U$ is a local variable on the PC. The NAS has no idea what it's value is and it does not pass in a Linux based backup job as a variable name the PC can fill in. So, it's taken literally. You need to replace it with it's value on the PC. StephenB has suggested one way to figure that out.