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<blockquote data-quote="mrplow" data-source="post: 1486365" data-attributes="member: 38928"><p>You have just about answered your own question there. If you can't make the copy work 'manually'........</p><p>I suspect you have too longer a path on some files for the tool or file system to cope with. It'd be interesting to know if this problem still occurred if the file system were MacOS Journaled?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Fundamentally they do the same thing - make a copy of your files.</p><p>A sync tool analyses the files in the source and the destination and copy's files and folders that are different. </p><p>Some backup tools, like Time Machine, do similar. It's called incremental backup. Some backup tools take a copy of everything, every time. This takes longer but ultimately achieves the same thing.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Time machine backups keeps historical views of your folder structure for as long as it has space on the backup.</p><p>Other than that you'll have to find a sync/backup tool that only copies new files but doesn't cascade deletions. It becomes more complex at that point because no automated system can know which files you genuinely want deleting and which you want to keep in a backup. So it's likely some form of manual intervention will be required here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mrplow, post: 1486365, member: 38928"] You have just about answered your own question there. If you can't make the copy work 'manually'........ I suspect you have too longer a path on some files for the tool or file system to cope with. It'd be interesting to know if this problem still occurred if the file system were MacOS Journaled? Fundamentally they do the same thing - make a copy of your files. A sync tool analyses the files in the source and the destination and copy's files and folders that are different. Some backup tools, like Time Machine, do similar. It's called incremental backup. Some backup tools take a copy of everything, every time. This takes longer but ultimately achieves the same thing. Time machine backups keeps historical views of your folder structure for as long as it has space on the backup. Other than that you'll have to find a sync/backup tool that only copies new files but doesn't cascade deletions. It becomes more complex at that point because no automated system can know which files you genuinely want deleting and which you want to keep in a backup. So it's likely some form of manual intervention will be required here. [/QUOTE]
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