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I have an external hard drive which I use for backups of a Windows 7 Professional system. I already used Windows Backup to make an initial backup of approx 400 GB of data on that drive when it was directly connected via USB (mounted as E:\). Now I want to move this USB device to a machine on the network and continue making incremental backups over the network. I would like to keep the initial full backup and add incremental backups to it because backing up over my network is very slow.

My questions are: Is there a way to tell Windows Backup, that the location has changed? Can I switch location from a directly connected USB drive to a network share? Will the initial full backup be used as a base for incremental backups? Can I verify that saved data is not corrupted by changing the location?

Thanks

justfortherec
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Windows can put incremental backups only on local drives. That means that you can only save full backups on network shares

strange walker
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