Restoring data from a drive other than "A"
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AisquithPCA
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Restoring data from a drive other than "A"
I am using PCP9 over a Remote Desktop in Windows XP Pro. I am attempting to restore data from a CD on my client PC. The program does not give me the option of browsing for any other drives. How can I remedy this?
Re: Restoring data from a drive other than "A"
The problem is probably that PC+ cannot recognize the local client PC's CD drive over the 'Remote Desktop'. . It will only recognize the drives that are ether local to the machine, or those that are mapped network drives.AisquithPCA wrote:I am using PCP9 over a Remote Desktop in Windows XP Pro. I am attempting to restore data from a CD on my client PC. The program does not give me the option of browsing for any other drives. How can I remedy this?
If you have a mapped network drive letter appearing, then what I would do is copy the backup file to the networked drive, then open PC+ to restore from that mapped drive.
Neil Zampella
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AisquithPCA
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Re: Restoring data from a drive other than "A"
I tried that, and it does not work.NeilZ wrote:If you have a mapped network drive letter appearing, then what I would do is copy the backup file to the networked drive, then open PC+ to restore from that mapped drive.
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Um ... not sure exactly what you mean. You tried copying to the mapped drive through the Remote Desktop and it does not work, or PC+ sees the mapped drive letter in the restore dialog, but does not read from it?AisquithPCA wrote:I tried that, and it does not work.NeilZ wrote:If you have a mapped network drive letter appearing, then what I would do is copy the backup file to the networked drive, then open PC+ to restore from that mapped drive.
FWIW ... I do this all the time with GoToMyPC and don't have a problem, as long as PC+ can see a mapped networked drive it should be able to read from it.
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Re: Restoring data from a drive other than "A"
OK - it may be another issue. I mapped the drive, then tried to access the drive from a client PC running XP - and it said it couldn't find a back-up. I unzipped the backup before burning it to a CD. Is PCP looking for a zipped archive? The reason I ask is, now I am actually sitting in front of the host machine, with the CD in the drive - and it still says it can't find a backup.NeilZ wrote:FWIW ... I do this all the time with GoToMyPC and don't have a problem, as long as PC+ can see a mapped networked drive it should be able to read from it.
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That's it now ... the backup is a zip archive, usually has the name that begins like this:AisquithPCA wrote:OK - it may be another issue. I mapped the drive, then tried to access the drive from a client PC running XP - and it said it couldn't find a back-up. I unzipped the backup before burning it to a CD. Is PCP looking for a zipped archive? The reason I ask is, now I am actually sitting in front of the host machine, with the CD in the drive - and it still says it can't find a backup.NeilZ wrote:FWIW ... I do this all the time with GoToMyPC and don't have a problem, as long as PC+ can see a mapped networked drive it should be able to read from it.
PCBACKUP_20051011_180000ADP.ZIP
That is the entire backup, the system will look for that, and the zip archive comments which lets it know if the backup is a version 9.0, 8.5, etc. If it doesn't find the right version number, it won't try to restore.
Hope this helps.
Neil Zampella
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AisquithPCA
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Re: Restoring data from a drive other than "A"
Worked like a charm!NeilZ wrote:That's it now ... the backup is a zip archive, usually has the name that begins like this:AisquithPCA wrote:OK - it may be another issue. I mapped the drive, then tried to access the drive from a client PC running XP - and it said it couldn't find a back-up. I unzipped the backup before burning it to a CD. Is PCP looking for a zipped archive? The reason I ask is, now I am actually sitting in front of the host machine, with the CD in the drive - and it still says it can't find a backup.NeilZ wrote:FWIW ... I do this all the time with GoToMyPC and don't have a problem, as long as PC+ can see a mapped networked drive it should be able to read from it.
PCBACKUP_20051011_180000ADP.ZIP
That is the entire backup, the system will look for that, and the zip archive comments which lets it know if the backup is a version 9.0, 8.5, etc. If it doesn't find the right version number, it won't try to restore.
Hope this helps.
Re: Restoring data from a drive other than "A"
Great to hear !!AisquithPCA wrote:Worked like a charm!
Neil Zampella
Using PC+ since 1999.
Using PC+ since 1999.