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Dear FBackup developers,

I have a 3tb internal hdd with 3 partitions on it. Every partition is the same size. I bought an another 3tb external hdd with the same partitions as the internal hdd. The problem is, when I set up the mirror, the FBackup assign all the jobs just one partition. Let's things clear. My internal 3tb's partitions are: DEF, my externals are: XYZ.

I want to make:
D->X
E->Y
F->Z

What FBackup make:
D->X
E->X
F->Z

What shoud I do now?

Hi,

Are the other partitions formatted? XYZ
Can you select the correct partition in Backup Properties?
When does the partition change? On save or on application restart?

Hi!

Are the other partitions formatted? XYZ -> Yes, and all the same sizes!

Can you select the correct partition in Backup Properties? -> Yes, I can. But the problem is, when I save the job, I just see partition X. As you see it on the print screen.

When does the partition change? On save or on application restart? -> When I save the job, I get back the "start page" i attached. So it s a circle...I make the job correctly, than save...than I see the wrong partition letter, after that I correct it and save, and correct it and save, and I make this over and over again but the upshot is the same every time.

Have you got any idea abut it?

Hi,

Can you give me access to your computer using TeamViewer to see what the problem is?
Please write us an email at info[at]fbackup[dot]com to discuss when we can connect.

Hello, esteemed FBackup staff & users,

I am having the exact same issue and it is starting to drive me insane, slowly but surely.

I am posting to let you know of this problem's developments on my end.

The issue is present on Windows 10 Pro x64 and Windows 7 Home Premium x64. The backup HDDs suffering from the “ignore the backup path” bug are both WD MyBook, connected via USB 3 to the Windows 10 and USB 2 to the WIndows 7 machines.

It was unreasonably difficult, but I traced down some previous FBackup versions, and the issue is present in every one I tried since after 5.2.643.

Hope this can be of help.

Having the same problem.

Purchased a new WD 500GB 2.5 inch USB 3.0 external HD to use as a backup storage for my daughter at university.
Installed Fbackup (version 5.4 build 813) (she has an Acer E3-111 running win 8.1)

External HD was formatted with 100GB as drive G: for a disc image and H: for the backups. Created a new job for the first 'mirror' backup selecting external drive H:
backup was put on G:???

So I tried again creating a second job, being very careful to select H: (saving at this point) yet when the job ran it saved the backup to G:

any suggestions.

SteveN

Hi,

We found the problem and we will fix it.
FBackup is selecting the first partition of the external drive as backup destination in this case.
Until the problem is fixed, you can change the partitions drive letter in order to get the correct partition as backup destination.

The bug about destination to different partitions
in version 5 is still in the new version 6!

Lasse

Hi,

The problem was not fixed yet.