Our backup is immune to changed drive letters

Problem - Why does Windows keep changing drive letters?

For no apparent reason, Windows has "decided" to assign different drive letters to the external hard disk and everything is different than before. And what happens? The data backup fails. As a savvy computer user, you will now open your backup software and change the drive letters of your backup destinations. But constantly having to reassign drive letters is simply no fun when backing up data. Isn't there an easier way to create a backup, you may ask?

The solution

We developers at Langmeier Backup have recognized this problem and have therefore had a solution ready for you for a long time. Set up your PC backup so that the data carrier name is used as the backup destination. Instead of setting the backup destination to the drive letter, this is changed to the name of the disk. Langmeier Backup now recognizes the data carrier with this name and performs the backup. This also works without any problems when inserting an external data carrier or connecting the external hard disk.

How to correctly fill in the backup destination in Langmeier Backup.

Tip for IT supporters

It is particularly important for you to avoid this problem right from the start, because it is a small cause but can have a big effect. Imagine users for whom you as an IT supporter have set up the Langmeier Backup data backup software. After some time, a user calls and tells you that the data backup is no longer working. Or you even visit the customer in person as a PC supporter and discover that the drive letters of the external hard disks have been swapped. This doesn't have to be the case if you make use of this great, yet simple, functionality of Langmeier Backup right from the start and use the data carrier name instead of the drive letter in the data backup.

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