Question How Files Are Backed Up

[ThorOfAsgard]

Hi. So when it backs up (I have it set to mirror) a folder from source to destination it will delete the every file in that folder from destination and then begin backing up. That seems insane to me because I might have hundreds of videos in a folder and if something were to happen to the drive during hours of backing up I could lose all of those backups. In my computer I see the free space in the backup hard drive increase in space by hundreds of gigabytes as soon as I start a backup, then go back down to normal.

Now I have 2 backup hard drives for all files, but even so this seems crazy. Is there any way to change how this does this? Maybe have it just delete 1 file at a time while it's backing that file up (mirroring the internal source drive)?

I'd also be curious if there's a way to make it backup just a name change. Sometimes I will change the name of a video in source and it will backup the whole video to destination instead of just changing the name. That's a lot of unnecessary time and hard drive writing.

Thank you

[elimjohnson]

I am also wondering about the file changing/copying process. Whenever I change the name of a directory, it appears to copy a whole new folder and files with the new name then deleting the old one rather than just changing the name of the original folder. Seems quite unnecessary and far more time consuming. Maybe it is just because it is the free version?

[elimjohnson]

After looking into this some more, in order for the software to detect file/folder name changes and/or location changes from the source and mirror that exact behavior to the destination, you have to buy either the SyncBackSE or SyncBackPro version. Then it will no longer delete and recopy every file/folder you have changed, off of and then back onto the source in the correct order so to speak. Going to buy it and see how it works.

[ThorOfAsgard1]

This is the OP. I had to make a new account because i forgot PW and it wouldnt send me a new one.

Anyway i bought the pro version and when i change a name of a video file it still re-backs up the entire file instead of just changing the name. Before i uninstalled the free version and installed the pro version i exported all my profiles and then imported them into the pro version so i dont know if theres another setting i need to use.

Also its 25% off for the next day. Great timing for me.

[ThorOfAsgard1]

An option i see that might be helpful is the file copying method (Standard Windows file copying, windows explorer method of file copying, backup read/write file copying, memory map file copying, read head file copying and multi-threaded file copying)