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What am I doing wrong?

In AISBackup . . . .

1. I have a backup job (call it job 1) that I made to my F drive (a local hard drive in the CPU).

2. I recently added an external USB drive (my G drive), and I wish to move my backup files off of the F drive to the G drive.

3. I right click on job 1 (which, by the way, correctly shows at the bottom of the screen that the backup files are housed on the F drive), and click on Backup Maintenance.

4. I then right click on the root folder of the directory tree and chose "Move Folder to a New Drive." When asked which drive, I elect to move the Folder (and presumably all of its subfolders) to the G drive.

5. AISBackup reports apparent success, and shows that the root folder is now on the G drive (under the job name it is indicated that the files are on the G drive).

6. I go to the G drive via Windows Explorer and the files are not there. They are still on the F drive.

7. I then go back to the window that lists all of my backup jobs, and the job I was trying to move shows at the bottom of the screen that it is still on the F drive.

8. I go back to the Backup Maintenance Folder Tree, and it tells me these files are on the G drive.

Upshot: Either I am missing something (likely) or AISBackup has gotten confused about the drive letters.

First question: Who is confused? Me or the machine?

Second question: Can't I just copy all the backup files manually off of the F drive to the G drive using xcopy or Windows Explorer?

TIA

Duncan

The AISBackup documentation may need changing in this area as there are two move processes in AISBackup; you should have used the second of the following options, however you may need to use option 1 again to put things right:

1: If you move your pictures from the C: drive to the D: drive then rather than backup the files again you can use the Manage Backup / Backup Maintenance option to 'move' the c:\ drive pictures to the d: drive, these are the files stored within the backup and not the actual backup. This is what you did, so I guess you need to re-run this option to move the files back to the 'C:' drive. I often use this option if I backup a disk from another PC using a USB-IDE cable as the backup drive letter will not be the original PC's drive letter (e.g. when the drive is attached to the PC it would be assigned a drive letter by Windows (W:) whereas the drive should really be C:)

2: To move the actual backup you should use the Manage Backup / Change Backup Destination option instead.

To learn more about external drive backup's see here:

http://www.aiscl.co.uk/externaldrives.php

Barry

Barry:

I have two follow up questions:

Question 1:

>>To move the actual backup you should use the Manage Backup / Change Backup Destination option instead.<<

Since you guys are roughly 7 hours ahead of me (I think that's right), I manually copied the files from F to G last night while I was sleeping. After reading your reply this morning, I used your option 1, and now have all of the backup files pointing back to the C drive - and the backup files are physically located on the G drive. So I think I am where I wanted to be, but . . . .

Have I messed anything up by using my method rather than the one quoted above?

Question 2:

I now have two separate backup jobs on my G drive. Since I have your attention (i.e., I suspect I could find the answer in the manual), is there a way to combine the two jobs into one? I ask this because I would guess there is a good bit of overlap between the files backed up in each job.

Thanks for your help.

Duncan

P.S. This is a super program: extremely flexible and, as best I can tell, rock solid.

The time in the UK should be displayed at the top of the web pages.

It is not possible to merge backup jobs - this would be a lot of work. I prefer to have more than one backup of the same data, on different media if possible.

Try restoring one file from the external drive backup, just double click a jpg or doc and it should open up in the associated program, or drag and drop a file from the backup restore form to the desktop (or any other folder in explorer).

Barry