Ski, Rather than mapping drive letters and writing to those you should use UNC paths and write to those.
For instance, writing to \\servername\c$\desiredpath would enable you to write to the C: admin share on a Windows box without having to have any drive letter mapped to it. You can also setup shared directories on other servers and use those with the UNC paths vs. using the c$ admin share. Hopefully this is at least somewhat useful. I am replying from my phone so I apologize for the brevity. If you do a Bing search for Windows UNC you should find more information about what I have relayed. -Evan On May 2, 2012 5:20 PM, "Ski Kacoroski" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > We have several applications and databases that we create data dumps from > each night. Due to space limitations on the server SAN, we would like to > write these to our NAS device. For unix this is not a problem as I just > NFS mount the NAs device and all my processes can write to it. However, on > windows it seems like this is impossible as mounted disks are done per user > and disappear when the user logs off. My immediate problem is doing it > with a SQL 2005 database. I have the backup job set up, but cannot figure > out how to make a mounted drive available to it. Is this even possible? > If so, how would I do it? > > cheers, > > ski > > --- > "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it > connected to the entire universe" John Muir > > Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, Unix Admin > 206-501-9803, ski98033 on IRC and most IM services > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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