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dokan-dev / dokany

User mode file system library for windows with FUSE Wrapper
http://dokan-dev.github.io
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SMB Share as Local Phyical Drive #1087

Closed Nexow91 closed 2 years ago

Nexow91 commented 2 years ago

Hello and first of all many thanks for Dakony the program is simple and works so far.

The only problem I have is that when I create a drive, it is not recognized as a physical local drive. This means that it is not stored as a local hard disk under Windows Disk Management.

My thought was to back up an SMB share via Veeam Backup Agent.

Veeam can backup local hard drives free of charge, e.g. an external USB hard drive, but also internal hard drives.

Here the mounted drive is not recognized by Veeam, only stored in Explorer. That's why I think it's still a virtual drive.

Please let me know if there is a way to mount the drive so that it is recognized as a full local drive.

Otherwise, thank you for the program.

Liryna commented 2 years ago

Hi @Nexow91 ,

Indeed dokan is not a physical disk so it cannot be shown in Windows Disk Management. See Dokan fs not showing in Disk Manager.

Otherwise, have you tried with the mount manager option ? it is /o if you use the mirror sample.

Nexow91 commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the feedback, unfortunately the /O option didn't help either. I think that the backup program really only shows volumes / disks that can also be seen in Windows Disk Management. Pity

Liryna commented 2 years ago

That's unfortunate 😢 There is not much we can do here if the app expect a disk volume.

js69 commented 2 years ago

Just a question to @Nexow91 : does Veeam work with a drive created by ImDisk? http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html/#ImDisk

Nexow91 commented 2 years ago

Englisch

Thank you for the information, unfortunately it doesn't work here either. Unfortunately, programs such as NetDrive or OSFMount do not work either.

What I haven't tried yet might be ISCSI Connect or Hard Symlink with mklink.