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On my Windows 11 laptop, I have been running the latest edition of paid-for Macrium Reflect backups and restores for ages with no hiccups.
This morning, when trying to do my usual backups, I got the error message that “None of the specified backup locations could be written to.”
How do I resolve that error?
Thank you,
southieguy
Look in File Explorer (on the PC to be backed up). Can you see each each of the target locations? Do the drive letters assigned to the target locations match the drive letters in your backup Definition Files?
southineguy,
As I’ve recommended here before look into using the free USBDLM. The program will allow you to assign drive letters based on a drives Volume Serial Number. This will insure that you always have the correct drive letter to match your backup definitions.
Here’s my .ini file as an example, look at all the drives assigned to drive I: (for Image). It also forces unknown drives to be X-Z.
;Testing Remote Copy 2! ; This is the for .INI file for USBDLM ; Create a new USBDLM.INI or rename it to USBDLM.INI ; More informations in the help file USBDLM_ENG.CHM ;Updated: 07/26/2024 ;------------------------------ Settings ------------------------------------- [Settings] ; here you can let USBDLM remove driveletters of cardreaders as long ; as there is no media present NoMediaNoLetter=3 ; here you can let USBDLM write a logfile, default is _USBDLM.LOG in ; the root of the Windows drive WriteLogFile=0 LogFile= LogLevel=3 ;---------------------------- BalloonTips ------------------------------------- [BalloonTips] ; this activates balloon tips and sets their show duration in milliseconds Enabled=1 Timeout=6000 ; here you can define drive letter that shall never be used for new local drives. ; configure here your network, subst and TrueCrypt drive letters here but no local drives! [NetworkLetters] Letter1=P Letter2=V Letter3= ; Letters configured in section [StaticLetters] are not touched by USBDLM. Thus you can still ; assign (some) USB drive letters by means of the Windows Disk Management without USBDLM ; reverting your changes [StaticLetters] Letter1= Letter9= Letters= ;-------------------------- the drive letters --------------------------------- [DriveLetters] ;Bare Image Drives used in iDsonix Dock ;To get VolumeSerial Nos. Use Get-VolSerNumbers ;or Use Hard Disk Sentinel ;WD-Blue 1Tb VolumeSerial=298D-DE80 ;WD-Blue 2 1Tb VolumeSerial=0F48-0600 ;WD-Black 1Tb VolumeSerial=550C-84F0 ;WD-Black 1Tb 2 VolumeSerial=8802-0040 ;WD-Black 1Tb 3 VolumeSerial=12E8-3570 ;WD-Green 500Gb VolumeSerial=0000-FFFF ;WD-Green 1Tb VolumeSerial=106B-06A0 ;WD-Green 2Tb VolumeSerial=B913-14D0 ;Segate Barracuda 1Tb VolumeSerial=82CE-72A8 ;Segate 1.5Tb VolumeSerial=EF18-5520 ;HGST 1Tb (Apple Drive) VolumeSerial=F7EF-ED70 ;WD-250MB Test Drive VolumeSerial=04A8-4B00 ;Segate 250Gb Test Drive VolumeSerial=403C-DED0 ;Samsung T-7 Portable SSD VolumeSerial=4EA8-3668 ;Kingston 500Gb NVME Orico USB case VolumeSerial=FFFF-0001 Letter = I [DriveLetters] ;Drives in USB Cases ;Orico Blue Case w/320Gb WD Blue HDD VolumeSerial=463A-03B0 ;Wavelink Case w2/128Gb Crucial SSD VolumeSerial=FFFF-C128 ;WD My Passport 320GB USB 2.0 VolumeSerial=A19D-D540 ;WD My Passport 1Tb USB 3.0 VolumeSerial=1DB2-3D00 ;Wavelink Case 2/ADATA960 SSD VolumeSerial=ADAD-A960 Letter=I [DriveLetters] ;Multiple partitioned Drives ;Use PowerShell Get-VolSerNumbers ;Inateck Case 500Gb Toshiba HDD VolumeSerial=574b-A7A0 Letter=I [DriveLetters] ;Use USBdeView to get the DeviceIDs for USB devices ;Macrium Reflect 4GB Boot Disk - SanDisk Cruiser Blade VolumeSerial=1203-51F7 ;Macrium Reflect 32GB Boot Disk - SanDisk Ultra VolumeSerial=1E37-0788 Letter=M ; here you can define new default drive letter for USB drives [DriveLetters] ;Defaults for non-enumerated drives. BusType=USB Letter=X Letter=Y Letter=Z ; many other options are documented in the Help files
BTW: Since I have multiple machines to backup I can copy this .ini file to each of those machines so I get consistent performance.
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