[SOLVED] Accessing .TIB from vmware-host VM share folder

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Jo Sidarta
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Hi all,
My OS is MAC OSX and to be able to run ABR 11a, I run Windows 7x32 through VMWare Fusion.

My huge .TIB file is located within MAC OSX folder, and because of this, I need to "share" the MAC folder so that it can be read within Windows 7x32 VM.

The problem is, ABR 11 unable to read \\vmware-host\ folder...
I tried to map \\vmware-host\ to specific drive (Y: for example) but still unaccessible from ABR.

Anyone know how to access \\vmware-host\ share folder from ABR?

Thanks

Thu, 07/12/2012 - 03:42
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Jo Sidarta
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#1

I guess, no one has experienced this issue before?

Fri, 07/13/2012 - 10:55
Fedor Larin
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#2

(Just in case - the same is for vmware workstation running on a Widnows host). Mapping drives support is not implemented in ABR11 yet. May be will work if you share is an SMB share.

Fri, 07/13/2012 - 12:43
Jo Sidarta
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#3

Thanks Fedor!
I found a resolution using Windows mklink (Windows Symbolic Link creator) command.
The following is what I've done:
- mklink /d
For example:
- mklink /d c:\temp \\vmware-host\TIB\

I hope this helps everyone else who wants to utilise VMWare and want to import Acronis TIB

Sat, 07/14/2012 - 12:51
Fedor Larin
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#4

Nice workaround. However it's only for Vista and above, as symbolic links are not available in XP (or Server 2003)

Mon, 07/16/2012 - 09:01
Jo Sidarta
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#5

Yup indeed, I wish Acronis allow recovery from network drive ^_*

Mon, 07/16/2012 - 12:10
IlDavo
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#6

Rats!  I had so hoped your little mklink trick for ABR would get me past the Acronis TI issue described at https://forum.acronis.com/forum/acronis-true-image-2018-forum/please-help-vmware-guest-backup-host-share wherein Acronis True Image won't write backups to a VMware Workstation guest VM's accessible directory on the VMware host machine.  Alas: TIH2019 won't even recognize a Windows symbolic directory link as a directory that it can "see."

Back to the drawing board...

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Technogod
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#7

This didn't fix my problem. When I tried to use a .tib file in the linked folder. I received a network error. I'm using Acronis 2019.

Sat, 11/23/2019 - 23:20