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Can I backup the Kaseya database to a mapped drive? - Connect IT Community | Kaseya
<main> <article class="userContent"> <p><strong>PROBLEM:</strong></p> <p>Can I backup the Kaseya database to a mapped drive?</p> <p><strong>SOLUTION:</strong></p> <p>Currently, mapped drives are not supported when trying to perform a database backup from the System tab > Configure page. We generally recommend that Kaseya controls the backups as we also run maintenance during this interval as well. </p> <p>However, If you would like to perform a database backup to a network share or mapped, you will need to configure SQL backups outside of Kaseya within SQL management studio itself.</p> <p>Here is a link from Microsoft on how to do this.</p> <p><a href="/home/leaving?allowTrusted=1&target=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.msdn.com%2Fb%2Fsqlagent%2Farchive%2F2010%2F10%2F12%2Fcreate-a-database-backup-job-using-sql-server-management-studio.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlagent/archive/2010/10/12/create-a-database-backup-job-using-sql-server-management-studio.aspx</a></p> <p> </p> </article> </main>