What is the best way to backup a network drive in windows?

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What is the best way to backup a network drive in windows?
Hi guys, thanks for this great tool, I try to make a copy of a network drive in windows but the results are not convincing.
Apparently if I do restic -r s3:repo… “//192.168.0.71”
It starts the copy but then it doesn’t appear in the snapshot.
If I create a network drive eg J:\ the copy is ok.
The problem arises that when automating the copy the network drive might not be available.
Any idea what may be the best option to make a copy of windows network?.

Thank you so much for the comments.

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Would you post the output of restic version and the exact commands (excl. passwords) you’re using, and their output? To backup a UNC path you’ll need to use \\hostname\share or \\IP_address\share. Keep in mind the user account running the task also needs permissions and/or drive letters to be configured.

Note that you cannot currently restore data backed via UNC paths.

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Hi there,

For your use case I think the best approach is to make a script that mounts the shared folder, launchs the backup and then unmounts the drive. If mounting the shared drive fails, then abort the backup.