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
>>
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