How to run Backup in Server 2012

Hi am Using windows Server 2012, am able to take backup only from Local drives.
i want to Run even mapped network drives also..
please guide me how to take backup of network drives or mapped network drives.

I don't think it's possible without third party software, the windows server backup assumes the share is on another server OS and you should be using backup on that server. I had a similar issue what I ended up doing was using a robocopy script to copy all
the data to the server I wanted to run windows server backup with this give me a redundant spot for the data and allows me to backup during normal business hours so for me this was a win win situation. I have since used NFS to sync the files to the server
which gives me a better live copy than robocopy at midnights did.
Just to add you can backup iscsi targets with windows server backup.

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