CobianSoft

Ok, I now understand how it works.

I have tried the same task with or without UNC paths, as shown in the attachments.
It only works using the paths that starts with the drive letters. Using UNC paths is not working and it gave me the same error.

Best Regards,
Matteo

Hi Luis,

the option "Convert all paths to UNC" was already selected.
I also tried to run the task with this option disabled but I got the same error.

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Matteo

Hi Luis, yes, both the source and destination are shared folders mapped as network drives. I now have noticed that Cobian Backup uses the unit letter of the mapped drive instead of the "\\" when I select the destination folder, Cobian Reflector converts the path to the absolute with "\\". So I creat...

Hi Luis, I'm sorry, maybe I explained badly the problem. Both Source path and Destination path are specified as absolute. Both starts with the \\ at the beginning: SOURCE: \\VBOXSVR\c_wsl\home\mlocatelli\TESTBCK DESTINATION: \\wsl$\Ubuntu-22.04\home\mlocatelli\TESTBCK Only in the error i find the st...

Hi Luis,

thanks for your reply.
I am already using the program as an application and not as a service. During the setup I didn't install the service at all.

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Matteo

I would like to add an information:
I also created and run the same task on Cobian Backup 11 (Gravity) and no issue occured. The new folders are created successfully.

Regards,
Matteo

Hi, these are my specs: OS: Windows 10 version 21H2 (build SO 19044.2130) LANGUAGE: Italian it seems that the software could not create new folders when I try to backup on a network drive. This is the error i get from the log: ERR 2022-10-24 15:29:17 The destination directory "\\wsl$\Ubuntu-22.04\ho...