I back up my PC to an external USB drive, and this normally works flawlessly. However, I see the backup job configurations use a hard-coded drive letter. This is usually OK, but there are times when the drive letter assigned to my USB drive has changed (usually E:, but it has come up as F: or G: on occasion). In that case, I notice that none of my backup jobs will work, as they are hard-coded to use the drive the device is normally mapped to.
In the end, I logged in as administrator, opened disk management, and manually re-mapped my USB drive back to E:, at which point all my backups became usable again.
Prior to forcibly remapping the drive letter I exported the backup configurations to an XML file in hopes that I could change the drive manually, then re-import the XML. The ambackup.xml file doesn't appear to be in UTF-8 format, or any other format readily recognized by my text editor (Notepad++).
A couple of questions, then:
Is there a way I can hand-edit the ambackup.xml file to change backup job drive mappings?
Is there a way to easily edit backup job settings to change the backup letter without losing any of my backup history?