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SBS Backup Configuration Wizard does not let you select "Removable Media" as a backup target location

  • Artigo

[Today's tip comes to us courtesy of Peter Gallagher]

We've had a few customers that have purchased external storage devices as backup targets for their Small Business Server 2003 customers only to find that the new drive/device is not an option as a target for the Small Business Server 2003 Backup Configuration Wizard. The SBS Backup Configuration Wizard will only expose physical drives/tape devices as valid targets for a backup, even though the external storage device has a drive letter assigned in My Computer. Think of how Secure Digital cards (SD cards) or Compact Flash cards (CF cards) show up in Windows XP in My Computer. Typically they show up under "Devices with Removable Storage". You cannot select this type of media as a target for the SBS Backup Configuration Wizard.

The workaround is to run the SBS Backup Configuration Wizard and to select a physical drive as a target (the C: drive or D: drive for example, any physical disk will do). If you select the C: drive (the system partition, where Windows is installed) make sure to click NO to "You have chosen to back up...Do you want to change the backup location?". Once the Backup Configuration Wizard has completed, edit the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftSmallBusinessServerBackupBackup Location Path

Change it from C:BackupsBackup Files to X:BackupsBackup Files where X: is the drive letter assigned in My Computer to the external storage device.

We have seen this issue with IOMEGA REV drives and GoVault drives.

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    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    August 30, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    September 01, 2006
    I ran into this on my SBS server using an IOMEGA REV drive.  I started searching the registry on my own and found that key.  It did the trick.
  • Anonymous
    September 03, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    September 04, 2006
    Honestly, I wouldn't recommend using a REV drive for SBS backup anyway.  I have had repeated issues like Bob N. mentioned.  It's really targeted at the desktop backup market anyway.  You'd be much better off getting laptop hard drives, putting them in external USB cases and backing up to a flat file onto those drives.  We've had awesome luck with this and we hardly ever have failed backups anymore!
  • Anonymous
    September 05, 2006
    Good call, I ran into this issue last week.... Thanks!
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    December 01, 2015
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