On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Evan Pettrey <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > Yes, what Evan said. Also make sure your export/dump is running as a service account/user that has write access to the share (and to the application). If it's not (running as SYSTEM for example), create a user and make sure the scheduled task runs as that AD user and that the AD user has write access to the NAS. Nick > 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/ >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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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