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UNC – Universal Naming Convention
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UNC is short for Universal Naming Convention and is a standard system for naming network drives. Via a UNC path, any resource in a network can be accessed directly withouth a drive letter mapping. In computer networks which use the internet protocol TCP/IP for data transfers, it is also possible to use the IP adress of a computer instead of its name in a UNC path. An example for a valid name of a shared network resource is
Syntax: \\Computer\Resource\
The UNC name of a directory or file can also include the path after the resource name, like this:
Syntax: \\Computer\Resource\Directory\File
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UNC path: \\Servername\Resource\Path
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\\
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Double backslash
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Servername
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Name of the computer that contains the resource (drive, directory)
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Resource
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In Windows, you need a shared resource to access data on another computer
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Path
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This is optional
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In addition to the UNC path, the user name and password, you will usually also need to specify access permissions defining which users can access the resource. This is done with user accounts on the source and the target computer.
 While Windows does not discriminate between upper and lower case letters in file and directory names, UNIX and Linux do so.
The passwords stored by Z-DBackup can contain up to 32 characters. Allowed characters are: 0-9, a-z, A-Z and the symbols _ ! % / & ( ) ? . - ; + : @ * # [ ] { } € § | ~ = $ " (no spaces). Please note these restrictions when creating the backup user accounts on your network computers.
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