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Can not restore from image located on Network Hard Drive
Hi there,
I'm using acronis true image 11 home edition for my imaging software of machines at my office. I've created a master image that I want to use when re-imaging my machines, I've gone ahead and placed the image on a Lacie 2big network Hard drive that we recently purchased, hoping that we would be able to restore from images on this drive, the only problem is that when I go to find the image on the network (using the acronis boot disk) when I click on the Lacie drive, it does not show the shares that we've created on the drive, and I think that the reason for this is that there's no way to authenticate to the share. I am able to see shares that I've created on my windows machine just fine with out having to authenticate to it, and so I've been using one of my workstation with a share to install the image from, but would really want to do this from the network drive. Any Ideas?
I'm using acronis true image 11 home edition for my imaging software of machines at my office. I've created a master image that I want to use when re-imaging my machines, I've gone ahead and placed the image on a Lacie 2big network Hard drive that we recently purchased, hoping that we would be able to restore from images on this drive, the only problem is that when I go to find the image on the network (using the acronis boot disk) when I click on the Lacie drive, it does not show the shares that we've created on the drive, and I think that the reason for this is that there's no way to authenticate to the share. I am able to see shares that I've created on my windows machine just fine with out having to authenticate to it, and so I've been using one of my workstation with a share to install the image from, but would really want to do this from the network drive. Any Ideas?
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Copy the files from your lacsi drive to a second HDD on the local computer, and restore from there?
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This is a network drive, with a built in file server http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=10953
It does have a usb interface, but I'm trying to use it as a little file server and not a usb drive, (I don't want to have to carry it around the office with me) :P
This is a network drive, with a built in file server http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=10953
It does have a usb interface, but I'm trying to use it as a little file server and not a usb drive, (I don't want to have to carry it around the office with me) :P
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I think I should Clarify something, when I said
"the only problem is that when I go to find the image on the network (using the acronis boot disk) when I click on the Lacie drive, it does not show the shares that we've created on the drive, and I think that the reason for this is that there's no way to authenticate to the share. I am able to see share"
I meant when I browse to it, acronis true image lets you restore from a CD/DVD, FTP, or network location. So if you decide network, it shows you the workgroups that are on your network, (which my lacie dirve is part of) so I am able to see the Lacie drive in the appropriate workgroup, but I am not able to see the shares on that drive that I've created.
"the only problem is that when I go to find the image on the network (using the acronis boot disk) when I click on the Lacie drive, it does not show the shares that we've created on the drive, and I think that the reason for this is that there's no way to authenticate to the share. I am able to see share"
I meant when I browse to it, acronis true image lets you restore from a CD/DVD, FTP, or network location. So if you decide network, it shows you the workgroups that are on your network, (which my lacie dirve is part of) so I am able to see the Lacie drive in the appropriate workgroup, but I am not able to see the shares on that drive that I've created.
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Here are some screen shots for you, sorry I had to take the screen shots with my iphone, since I'm using the acronis boot disk, and have no other way to do screen shots
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http://www.lacie.com/download/manual/2bigNetwork_en.pdf pages 33 and 34 discuss setting up public access.
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Jammer59, we're on the same track, I actually had tried that in the past, but to now avail, I went ahead and tried it again just to see if it might work this time, but I come up with the same outcome, it's really weird.
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Here's a screen shot of the Share configuration
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Jammer59, I think I might have just found a workaround to the problem.
Where it's asking for the file name I entered the IP address of the Lacie Drive
in my case \\192.168.1.17\
it then comes up with the login screen, so I was finally able to authenticate to the drive using the user account that I created on the Lacie drive, but it still does not let you browse the shares, so you have to manually enter the path to the image you want to restore from on the drive in my case it was
\\192.168.1.17\images\(nam
and that worked !
I'm thinking that there's some bug either in the acronis software, or the lacie drive OS, because usually on drives that require authentication, it automatically comes up with the login screen so you can view the shares on the drive, or if it has public share, it lets you view the public share, both of which where not the case with the lacie 2big network drive / Acronis True image setup.
For putting me on the right track again, I'm going to award the points to Jammer59 :)
Where it's asking for the file name I entered the IP address of the Lacie Drive
in my case \\192.168.1.17\
it then comes up with the login screen, so I was finally able to authenticate to the drive using the user account that I created on the Lacie drive, but it still does not let you browse the shares, so you have to manually enter the path to the image you want to restore from on the drive in my case it was
\\192.168.1.17\images\(nam
and that worked !
I'm thinking that there's some bug either in the acronis software, or the lacie drive OS, because usually on drives that require authentication, it automatically comes up with the login screen so you can view the shares on the drive, or if it has public share, it lets you view the public share, both of which where not the case with the lacie 2big network drive / Acronis True image setup.
For putting me on the right track again, I'm going to award the points to Jammer59 :)
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Success at last!
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I am at work and I have my Acronis software on my home machine. I will look tonight to see if I can solve your problem. My thought process is:
(1) Determine if the Acronis Bootable disk has access to DOS and will allow me to use a NET USE command to map a drive to the LaCie shared folder
(2) Create a bootable BartPE cd which includes the Acronis Windows software. You could boot with BartPE, map a drive and then launch Acronis. Would this be a viable solution?
(1) Determine if the Acronis Bootable disk has access to DOS and will allow me to use a NET USE command to map a drive to the LaCie shared folder
(2) Create a bootable BartPE cd which includes the Acronis Windows software. You could boot with BartPE, map a drive and then launch Acronis. Would this be a viable solution?
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Jammer59, sorry I meant to accept your answer as the solution, but accidentally split it with dextertronic's answer which was not the answer
I have the same problem ; No solutions work. I had acronis image - stored in a location. I am booting the a machine with Acronis Universal CD - when trying to restore I am not able to select the backup from network.
Able to browse network - computer near to me- but not showing the shared folder.
I tried typing full path with file name - not worked;
Can anyone suggest how can I resolve the issue:
Not able to browse Option menu also - ; but it is connecting to network and taking ip from dhcp - because I am able to browse the network
Please help asap.
Able to browse network - computer near to me- but not showing the shared folder.
I tried typing full path with file name - not worked;
Can anyone suggest how can I resolve the issue:
Not able to browse Option menu also - ; but it is connecting to network and taking ip from dhcp - because I am able to browse the network
Please help asap.