Imaging Network Drives

[mwilg]

Well, I had a shock this evening. I've been setting up a new computer which will be my primary. Being much faster, etc. than my older one which I still have uses for, I was going to run all my backups from/through this new one for both machines - networking the old one through the internet router I use.
However, TI, on the new machine, will only 'see' the networked drive of the old machine if I select a 'Files and Folders' type b/u, not an 'Entire Image' type b/u. If I select an 'Entire Image' type b/u, all TI gives me available is the new machine's local drives and the ext drive. Damn :'( !
No way around this? If not, I would definitely make it an addition to the wish list thread.

[Acronis Support]

Hello mwilg,

Thank you for choosing Acronis Disk Backup Software (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/).

We are very sorry for the delay with the response.

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Alexey Popov