FreeFileSync Forum

Ah, I heard about FFS on a Linux Mint forum, in a discussion about backups. The idea of merely updating the backup file, instead of saving it all again, is brilliant.

Yes, no one reads the manual cover to cover. In my defense, I did watch the instructional videos and even took notes, but I must ...

But I'm good now, right? Since the error stopped the two-way?

The default is for a mirror sync. For first time users there should be warning message about that.

I know, we can't protect everyone from themselves, ...but still.

Backup complete. Xenon, what where you pointing out re run a comparison first? What should I check for?

Also, had errors on the many file titles. Freefilessync doesn't like titles with a blank space at either end, or having these characters ? | : I was able to change the titles when the error ...

Xenon,
I think I see the problem. As a first time user, freefilesync was set to "synchronize two-way" when I wanted "mirror," which is more appropriate for backups. With two-way, it was trying to load everything on my backup drive onto the desktop.

Let me try to do the backup as "mirror" as see if ...

How is this:

I checked my desktop properties, it's showing " 5,328 items, totalling 19.0 GB (19.0 GB on disk) "

Desktop free space is " 229.4 GB "

So there should be plenty of space to do the transfer. Am I missing something?

On re-exam, perhaps you are right. It looks like my primary drive is 49% full. freefiles might temporarily store files on that while it copies to them backup drive. If that's the case, 49% full is too much. Am I correct on this?

I have a Linux Mint OS. I checked free disc space with the df -h command, and it appears to show plenty of free space. Am I wrong?

joe@joe-Studio-XPS-435MT:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 1.2G 2.4M 1.2G 1% /run
/dev/sda6 436G 200G 214G 49% /
tmpfs 5.9G 1.3G 4.6G 22% /dev ...

First time user. I am trying perform an initial copy, mirroring the desktop onto a separate Seagate drive. It's giving me an error warning that the source (my desktop) doesn't free disk space available.
It says;
Required: 498 GB
Available: 229 GB

How can I solve this?