Using unmounted volume in a profile

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Using unmounted volume in a profile

Postby dscotl on Thu Jun 30, 2016 11:36 am

In a profile I would like to reference a drive by it's volume id. There's a good explanation of how to use Volume IDs http://superuser.com/questions/465730/access-to-a-disk-drive-using-volume-id-instead-of-a-drive-letter-in-windows.

I am wanting to keep my target backup drive unmounted to hide it from ransomware agents. To my knowledge ransomware agents are doing their evil work via drive letters -- encrypting the contents of mounted drives.

I can get the Volume ID of my target drive ( \\?\Volume{e8ba9340-783b-4e30-82d6-58d6120182c8}\ ) and I can use it as a path in Windows Explorer. However, when I use this as a path in Syncovery I get an error message:
Cannot access right path:
\\?\Volume{e8ba9340-783b-4e30-82d6-58d6120182c8}\
The filename, ,directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect


Is there something I can do syntactically that will make this work?
Is there a different way to access an unmounted volume?
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Re: Using unmounted volume in a profile

Postby superflexible on Thu Jun 30, 2016 12:30 pm

I need to make a small update to allow this. I will let you know.
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Re: Using unmounted volume in a profile

Postby dscotl on Thu Jun 30, 2016 12:51 pm

Fantastic!
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Re: Using unmounted volume in a profile

Postby superflexible on Mon Jul 11, 2016 1:53 pm

I have tried a path like \\?\Volume{0aba2573-0000-0000-0000-20fd73000000}\ as the right-hand path in Syncovery 7.54 and it works fine. Maybe you need to update?
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