Hello,
Good news, i have managed to get the back up restoring to the SME 10 machine now,
i am using a USB 2.5" caddy with a 2TB SSD attached.
as the file system could see the drive i decided to create a mount point for the drive and modify the fstab to match the drive and be able to view it that way.
i then went into the server console and configured the workstation backup so that i knew for sure that the drive was visible as a backup device.
this would then allow me to restore from workstation and its currently restoring as i type.
Appreciate everyones input and advice here. will post again if i encounter any odd errors
Thank you