
Always use this flag initially to prevent data loss.
EMCOPY MIRROR TRIAL
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I see some options listed in the manual page for rsync that might do the trick, but since I'm not familiar with. Want the destination folder to perfectly reflect the source folder,Īnd that means deleting any files that have been deleted from the source If that is the case, what is the best way to make rsync do this? I That were deleted from the source folder? Have been changed in the source folder but NOT delete files That have been added to the source folder and change files that So I have a couple of questions:īy default, does rsync only add files to the destination folder The backup plugin eventually did its job and deleted the older backups, so I was expecting the rsync cron task to subsequently delete the older backups from my Dropbox folder to match the source folder, but it has not done so.

I also established a cron task to automatically copy those backups to my Dropbox folder every night using rsync with the -a option.Īfter a few months my Dropbox account reached its storage limit and I realized I would not be able to keep so many backups, so I configured the game server backup plugin to not retain so many backups, then waited a few days to see if it would delete the older backups as it is scheduled to do on a weekly basis. I installed a backup plugin for each game server that creates frequent backups of game world files in a particular folder on the machine. Applying Robocopy /CREATE /DCOPY:T afterwards on the same directory corrects all timestamps very quickly without re-copying the files.I recently set up a machine with Ubuntu Server to host game servers. WinHex has a function called “Replicate directory” which can directly copy compressed files as compressed, but it does not preserve timestamps. In 2015 the author provided me with a corrected version, but for some reason never made it public (the available version hasn't been updated since 2009).

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It can be a problem even for someone not knowingly using the “sparse” NTFS feature, as many download managers or file sharing applications set it by default to minimize the allocated size of partial files. The current official version also has a bug : if an input file has the “sparse” attribute, the copy gets corrupted (only the first clusters are actually copied, the rest ends up empty).


But there's one caveat : it first copies the file uncompressed, then applies the NTFS compression, which increases the copy time.
EMCOPY MIRROR WINDOWS
SynchronizeIt is a file copy tool which I use a lot : like Robocopy, it preserves all timestamps (including directory timestamps, which is very rare among Windows tools), and it preserves the C attribute, meaning, the NTFS compression. It may or may not be the same for “sparse” files. It should also be noted (although it's probably not relevant to this particular case) that Robocopy does not preserve NTFS compression, so if there are compressed files in the source folder (they usually appear in blue color), the destination folder will be significantly larger.
