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Not sure I follow completely. You now have your drive connected via USB directly? Yes, the USB drive now is connected to a USB 3.0 port on my Windows 10 computer. Previously, when I was having this problem, the same USB drive was connected to a USB 3.0 the on the NAS. Hope you can get to the bottom...

I think I solved this, actually. I had my backup drive connected directly to a USB port on my NAS because I did not have an unfilled USB port on my computer. I disconnected a printer cable and plugged the USB drive into my computer. Once I did this, FFS copied over the proper file timestamps, althou...

I was having some issues with FFS, so I deleted all my files on the destination drive and re-mirrored them from the source drive. Unfortunately, the date and time stamps at destination reflect the copy time and date, not the time and date of last modification. Therefore, FFS now thinks that all the ...

I think the problem is that the files that copy over bear a more recent file date than the original ones, which makes them not identical and thus subject to being overwritten. I could compare by file size or content, but I have no idea how that would affect processing time. I am going to delete agai...

Okay, this is worse than I imagined. I deleted all of the files on the backup drive and then ran a sync from the NAS to that drive. It took a day and a half to create the new set of files on the backup. Immediately after finishing, I ran another sync to confirm that the datasets were identical. Unfo...

I am backing up from two Synology NAS folders to a number of other network drives, one-way synchronizing from the NAS to each of the other drives. Generally, this has been working well, but I noticed that, for the last few weeks, there are many more files being copied to the USB drive that is attach...