How to backup files acrross the lan?

[WildHorse]

On a desktop computer, I want to use Nero Burning ROM to burn a DVD backup of contents I can see across the home LAN that reside on a laptop.

In Windows XP / My Network Places / View Network Computers, I can see the laptop's file contents.

Problem is, from within Nero Burning ROM I can't find a way to see the same laptop contents.

Does anybody know how to do this?

Note: I can't see across the LAN from within Acronis True Image either, so backing up the laptop across the LAN with Acronis also seems non-doable. But I'd rather burn a DVD.

 

[Fardringle]

Map a network drive to the laptop's shared drive instead of just browsing to it in My Network Places. Nero and Acronis should both be able to access the files on a mapped drive.

 

[WildHorse]

Fardringle,

Thank you.

That's a new one to me.

I'll look for instructions in Windows Help and on the web.

 

[ColKurtz]

Scott,

Go into windows explorer and click Tools > Map Network Drive. Choose a drive letter (let's say X🙂, and then browse to your laptop's files and click OK. Now your laptop's files should show up under the X: drive, and Nero should see the X: drive.

 

[WildHorse]

Thank you both.

ColKurtz, it's only allowing me to select (map to) one single folder at a time on the laptop.
I would like to map one drive letter of my desktop computer to the complete laptop, i.e. to the laptop's entire D: drive where all it's "My Docs" are.

Do you have any ideas how to do that?

 

[Fardringle]

Share the D: drive itself on the laptop instead of the individual folders. Then map a network drive to that new shared folder.

 

[Kelemvor]

Originally posted by: Fardringle
Share the D: drive itself on the laptop instead of the individual folders. Then map a network drive to that new shared folder.

Or if everything on the laptop is in "My Documents" just make right to that folder which will also give access to all the sub folders. But if you do have files all over the place and not jsut in that one folder, then you'd have to map the whole drive.

 

[JackMDS]

Originally posted by: scott

Note: I can't see across the LAN from within Acronis True Image either, so backing up the laptop across the LAN with Acronis also seems non-doable. But I'd rather burn a DVD.

Not a good idea.

Nero does not see all the content of an Active working Drive, and burning across LAN the content of a working Hard Drive at times creates corrupted files.

Actually it is much better to create Acronis tib images. Acronis is designed to backup active content and it also compresses the backup files 40% down under normal compression.

You are probably using Acronis Home version and trying to use it as if it is the server version so it does not work.

The way to do it is to start Acronis on the computer that you want to backup and choose a Network drive as the destination saving target.

E.g. if you want to backup a Laptop to a Desktop.

Make sure that the Desktop's Hard Drive/Folder that you want to backup to on is sharable.

Install Acronis True Image on the Laptop.

Start the Acronis backup option, when it asks you where to save the files, you can choose the Network Drive.


Once you have the image files on the Desktop you can burn them into a DVD if you want to.

The whole process would be shorter, more safer, and take less DVDs.

 

[WildHorse]

Thank you!

 

[WildHorse]

Feedback:

JackMDS, tried the method you explained.

It worked beautifully! I'm very pleased. Thank you again!