Windows 2008 -- FTP to Hard Drive Map

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mrjswift

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Anyone know of a good program that can make an ftp network shortcut look like a harddrive so I can use the Windows Server backup software to make a backup of my server. I have already tried using a program called FtpDrive with no luck.
 
what are you trying to do...?
you want an FTP site to be given a drive letter?
what OS? Home Server?
 
Yes, correct.

Os is Windows Server Web 2008.

Then I think I could use the built in Windows Backup to make a backup. right now it wont let me make a back up because the physical disks are dynamic and it gives me an error message when I try to use FTP as a local network share. I can post a link in a moment.
 
Ah! I tried ftpuse too but it was limiting the virtual drive to 1GB for some reason. I was trying to find documentation to change that limitation. I'll check that first link out now though.
 
Thanks for those links. I tried the map network drive from the first example but it ended up just making another ftp store which Microsoft can't use for some reason. : / Thanks for looking for me.
 
I'll try and post a good back up solution for backing up to FTP when I find it.
 
If you can map a drive to it, you could try the subst command instead. Subst will create the drive as a local drive. But I don't know how you would map it to an FTP site...

subst <drive> <path>
 
I ended up using NetDrive. It works pretty well, accept that Windows Server does not detect it as a hard disk, so I can't use it with the built in Windows Server Backup Software. I am currently using it as a drag and drop share for manually backing up files to my FTP site.
 
Here is a screen shot.

netdrive.png
 
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