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SQL SERVER – FIX – Error 3201 – Cannot open backup device. Operating system error 3
This blog is in continuing to use the default values. Earlier this week I wrote a blog which talked about the failure of Create Database Command. Let see in this blog post how we can solve the error 3201.
While working on the reproduction of the issue, I changed the parameters and later realized that the backup database command was also failing. If you rely on the default values for folders that don’t exist, this will raise an error message as shown below.
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