How to back up only new or changed files

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Awethentic
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Post by Awethentic »

Dear Admin,
Many thanks for the post 3 weeks ago.
Cheers and enjoy.
A


Adrian (Softland)
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Post by Adrian (Softland) »

Hi,
You are welcome.

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gmiddleton
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Post by gmiddleton »

Hi. I have a mirror backup set. I wanted to test FBackup was working so I added a new text file (file1.txt) and amended another text (file2.txt) in the folder I selected.
I started the backup for the 2nd time and found it created the new file (file1.txt) (as expected) but didn't overwrite file2.txt. I then tried amending file1.txt then running again. This time FBackup overwrote file1.txt but still file2.txt hasn't been updated. Is this a bug? I'm using version 4.6.


gmiddleton
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Post by gmiddleton »

In additional to the last comment. I've just noticed the date modified flag of file2.txt gets updated everytime I run the backup. So FBackup knows the file has changed in the source, does something to the file that changes the date modified, but the actual contents of the file doe not get updated.
Everytime I run it generates the following in the log:
[23/04/2011 21:30:37] FBackup 4.6.250

[23/04/2011 21:30:37] Search for "Warning: " and "Error: " to locate warnings and errors in this log file

[23/04/2011 21:30:37] Starting backup for "Desktop" at 23/04/2011 21:30:37

[23/04/2011 21:30:37] Operating system: Windows Vista Home Edition Service Pack 2 (build 6002)

Processor[0] : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz

Processor[1] : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz

Processor[2] : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz

Processor[3] : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz

Physical memory (free/total) : 942 MB/3069 MB

Display (res/color/DPI) : 1920X1200/32 bit/96

System font (name/height/size/charset) : Segoe UI/-12/9/1

Admin/BkPriv/RePriv : True/False/False

IsWOW64 : False

Locale : English (United Kingdom)

[23/04/2011 21:30:37] Checking if the drives of the sources exist

[23/04/2011 21:30:38] Checking backup destination (External hard drive)

[23/04/2011 21:30:38] Creating the list of files to backup

[23/04/2011 21:30:38] Found file C:\Users\Graham\Desktop\file2.txt

[23/04/2011 21:30:39] Folders found to backup: 0

[23/04/2011 21:30:39] Files found to backup: 1 (0.03 KB)
[23/04/2011 21:30:39] Preparing shadow copy

[23/04/2011 21:30:39] Shadow copy created.

[23/04/2011 21:30:39] Added file C:\Users\Graham\Desktop\file2.txt
[23/04/2011 21:30:40] Saving backup catalog "C:\Users\Graham\AppData\Roaming\Softland\FBackup 4\fkcFiles\Desktop.fkc"
[23/04/2011 21:30:40] Remove excluded or deleted files from backup
[23/04/2011 21:30:42] Starting test on "Desktop" for backup number 14, the last backup number at 23/04/2011 21:30:42

[23/04/2011 21:30:42] F:\Backup\C\Users\Graham\Desktop\file2.txt OK

Test finished at 23/04/2011 21:30:43, 1 file(s) and 0 folder(s) tested, 0 error(s) and 0 warning(s) found
Total number of files added to backup: 1

Total number of folders added to backup: 0

Total size of files added to backup: 0.03 KB

Number of files excluded: 0

Number of folders excluded: 0

Next scheduled backup:

Backup completed at 23/04/2011 21:30:43 with 0 error(s), 0 warning(s)


Adrian (Softland)
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Post by Adrian (Softland) »

Hi,
We don't have such problems here.

Can you give us access to your computer?

Do you know you can monitor your backups remotely with Backup4all Monitor? You can read more here: https://www.backup4all.com/backup4all-monitor.html

gmiddleton
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Post by gmiddleton »

Hi yes. What is your Windows Live ID?


Adrian (Softland)
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Post by Adrian (Softland) »

Hi,
Please contact us by email and give us the TeamViewer ID and password.

The email is info[at]fbackup[dot]com.

Do you know you can monitor your backups remotely with Backup4all Monitor? You can read more here: https://www.backup4all.com/backup4all-monitor.html

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