Buffalo Linkstation Windows Backup

Froggitt

Have Vista PC, and Linkstation, and use Synctoy to copy files daily to the Linkstation with no issues.

I also want to do a full Windows Backup, but it doesnt find the Linkstation (L drive) as a potential backup location.

If I go to "My Computer", it shows the Linkstation as an NTFS volume.....although I did read somewhere that some Buffalo products use a non-Windows format.

Any ideas?




[URL="mshelp:///"]Why don't I see the location I want to back up to in the Back Up Files wizard?[/URL]


When you choose a location to save your backup to, the wizard searches your computer and displays a list of all locations that you can use. If the location that you want to use doesn't appear in the list, it could be due to one of the following problems:

• The location is a tape drive. You can't save backups to tapes.
  The location is the disk that you are trying to back up. You can't back up a disk to itself. For example, you can't back up the contents of drive E to drive E.
  The location is a CD-ROM drive. You can't use a CD-ROM drive to make a backup; you must use a CD burner, also known as a CD-R or CD-RW drive.
  The location is a [URL="mshelp://windows/?id=df341665-df00-412c-af0e-da64190bb918#gtmt_usb_flash_drive_def"]USB flash drive[/URL]. You can't save backups to a flash drive.
  The location is not formatted as NTFS, FAT, or Universal Disk Format (UDF) (also called [URL="mshelp://windows/?id=308079e3-26ca-4b0a-b02e-3499bdeb58a4#gtmt_live_file_system_def"]Live File System[/URL]). Backups can only be saved to disks that are formatted using the [URL="mshelp://windows/?id=561480ce-050b-4273-9d2a-809d76c93ac1#gtmt_ntfs_file_system_def"]NTFS[/URL], FAT, or UDF file systems. For more information, see [URL="mshelp://windows/?id=5dd16a76-7224-45ed-946a-72d5c6dc6e82"]Comparing NTFS and FAT file systems[/URL].
  The location is either the system disk (the disk that Windows is installed on—also called the C drive) or the boot disk (the disk that Windows uses to start your computer—also called the startup disk).
• The location is a network share on a computer running Windows XP Home Edition. You can't save backups to these shares because setting permissions on network shares and authenticating over a network are not supported by Windows XP Home Edition.

tronator

Froggitt wrote: »

If I go to "My Computer", it shows the Linkstation as an NTFS volume.....although I did read somewhere that some Buffalo products use a non-Windows format.

Any ideas?




[URL="mshelp:///"]Why don't I see the location I want to back up to in the Back Up Files wizard?[/URL]


When you choose a location to save your backup to, the wizard searches your computer and displays a list of all locations that you can use. If the location that you want to use doesn't appear in the list, it could be due to one of the following problems:

• ...

• The location is a network share on a computer running Windows XP Home Edition. You can't save backups to these shares because setting permissions on network shares and authenticating over a network are not supported by Windows XP Home Edition.

That's the reason. I don't know why MS restricts the destination of the backup. I can't see a technical reason. So just use a different product...

Froggitt

Its Vista not XP.