Adding and additional drive

On a database server, I have mapped a new drive letter to
a SAN so that I can backup my database. When I go into
Enterprise Manager, I can see the drive, but when I try to
create a new backup device, it gives me an error stating
that 'the directory in whch you want to create this file
does not exist'.
If I try to create a new data or log file for a database
on that server, I do not see the drive.
Should I just reboot the server or is it something else?SQL Server will probably not see mapped drives... it is running under a
different account than what you used when you mapped the drive.
The BEST way to do this is to make sure that the account SQL Server is
running under has rights to the remote share.
Simply issue a backup using the UNC
BACKUP DATABASE master TO DISK = '\\RemoteServer\SomeShare\master.bak' WITH
INIT
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"canaries" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:225801c49a93$8ec19da0$a501280a@.phx.gbl...
> On a database server, I have mapped a new drive letter to
> a SAN so that I can backup my database. When I go into
> Enterprise Manager, I can see the drive, but when I try to
> create a new backup device, it gives me an error stating
> that 'the directory in whch you want to create this file
> does not exist'.
> If I try to create a new data or log file for a database
> on that server, I do not see the drive.
> Should I just reboot the server or is it something else?
>|||http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555128
Everything you ever wanted to know about backing up to remote shares.
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"canaries" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:225801c49a93$8ec19da0$a501280a@.phx.gbl...
> On a database server, I have mapped a new drive letter to
> a SAN so that I can backup my database. When I go into
> Enterprise Manager, I can see the drive, but when I try to
> create a new backup device, it gives me an error stating
> that 'the directory in whch you want to create this file
> does not exist'.
> If I try to create a new data or log file for a database
> on that server, I do not see the drive.
> Should I just reboot the server or is it something else?
>