V Stuff Backup and network drives

V96GLF · 17-05-2009, 09:45

It seems that V Stuff Backup doesn't see my network drives (NAS). That's a shame, as I keep everything on the network, so Backup is of no use to me with this restriction!

I'm not sure whether this by accident or design... perhaps someone knowledgeable could comment here?

It's a real shame, because I'd happily pay the Â£5/month upgrade if it could do what I need.

Raistlin · 17-05-2009, 09:47

I've got no experience of the V Stuff Backup product, but does it see 'local' drives (ie. drives that have a local drive letter)?

If it does could you try mapping the network drive to a local drive letter and then running the backup against that drive?

V96GLF · 17-05-2009, 09:59

My network drives are mapped, but V Stuff Backup only sees the local drive ( C: ). I've got @virginmedia on Twitter looking at it right now - which is pretty impressive for a Sunday morning!

Walford · 17-05-2009, 11:04

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Originally Posted by V96GLF

My network drives are mapped, but V Stuff Backup only sees the local drive ( C: ). I've got @virginmedia on Twitter looking at it right now - which is pretty impressive for a Sunday morning!

You could always try the news groups. There on all days until 10pm.

sasprog · 27-05-2009, 17:31

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Originally Posted by V96GLF

My network drives are mapped, but V Stuff Backup only sees the local drive ( C: ).

Hi, just wondered if you ever got a resolution to this ?
I have *exactly* the same problem with V Stuff not seeing my network drive (USB drive attached to a Linksys NSLU2 and mapped as drive L:\).

AndyCambs · 27-05-2009, 18:37

V stuff sees files I save to the connected drives....

nutellajunkie · 27-05-2009, 18:50

I wanted to know if using Vstuff backup would affect my FUP or other capping potential? If so then its bloomin well useless to most of us.. 5GB upload, how far and fast are most of us going to get on 10MB? wooo, 50k a second.. do the maths!

AndyCambs · 28-05-2009, 04:06

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Originally Posted by nutellajunkie

I wanted to know if using Vstuff backup would affect my FUP or other capping potential? If so then its bloomin well useless to most of us.. 5GB upload, how far and fast are most of us going to get on 10MB? wooo, 50k a second.. do the maths!

How many files do you have that you need to save?
You can tailor the system to only back up specific file types, and although the first backup takes a while, subsequent back-ups are incremental, only saving what has changed or is new. In the case of the networked drive, for some reason that wasn't included on the first back-up, but it does see the photos I save from the C Drive to the networked drive and save them.

euro dave · 03-11-2009, 09:57

I found this thread whilst looking for an answer to backing up files from external hard drives with VStuff.

I found the solution and it's to use the web interface rather than the built in software. So uninstall VStuff and just go to the web site instead, and then drag drop files from your external drive into the backup folder.

Hey presto! External hard drive files backed up (not automatically though), and a cleaner computer without VStuff hogging it in the background.

caph · 04-11-2009, 17:57

I think that just about sums up V Stuff. The only real way to use is not to, and use the web interface instead.

I switched to Jungle Disk several months ago and it backed up 30Gb of my stuff in a few days and has been happily keeping it all updated daily ever since. I set the latest version of V Stuff going on 3Gb of photos over 5 weeks ago and it has got through about 2Gb so far even though the PC is on every day for several hours at least. It uploads so slowly and it keeps jamming until I remember to deselect all files and then reselect them again to get it to restart. Pathetic really.

They must have known for months now that this software doesn't work but they just don't seem to care about getting it fixed.