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See my comments below:

Am 19.09.2015 um 19:12 schrieb Zenju:

> allow for backup volumes to be offline at backup time
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> Not sure what this is about: If a hard disk is not used it powers down automatically after some time. If FreeFileSync needs it for sync it will power up on its own. So this ...

I use FreeFileSync - which is a very powerful, fast and feature-rich utility - for Backup on my Windows clients intensively, but I believe some important features regarding Automation of Backups are still missing. These are:

* avoid a start of FreeFileSync if the most recent start (of the same ...

FreeFileSync works excellently on my system, with an incredible speed (as I save everything twice for RAID-1-like safety, it has to analyse metadata of 400'000 files. It can do that in less than 2 minutes).
This speed, however, suggests that FreeFileSync works with parallel threads and reads all ...

FreeFileSync allows USB external disks to be addressed via [volume-name] syntax.
This works fine if the USB disk is accessible via some drive letter A-Z, but it doesn't work ("File not found errors...")
if the volume is only mounted into some NTFS mount point (i.e. an empty directory on C/D ...