Checking to see if these settings are correct.

[Samir]

Hi all!

First time user of FFS and wanted to check if I'm doing this correctly.  I've made a mirror of a hard drive using FFS.  HDD-original = H://, HDD-mirror = I://.  What I want to do is compare H:// (which is active) to the passive mirror and then have the differences between them saved to a separate mirror update drive (let's call it J://).

So far, I've used the synchronization feature with the original (H://) on the left hand side and the mirror (I://) on the right hand side.  I'm using "update" as the synchronization method (please see enclosed) where new items are copied to the right side and rugby side items are updated. However, I need these updates versioned and saved to the J:// instead (which I think I'm doing by adding the J:// under, "move files to user-defined folder"). However, no new offers are being created.

Should I only new creating new? Or only updating? Should I be decreasing the time to 30 days and backing it up monthly?

Your help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

[xCSxXenon]

As far as I know, there is no file system or OS that uses double slashes for local paths. Change everything to single slash and see if that works

[Plerry]

FreeFileSync (FFS) does only perform (automatic) sync actions between the left and right locations it compared.
So, FFS cannot to compare H:\ with I:\ and then (automatically) "sync" the differences to J:\.
You can however do it manually.

The sync configuration in your screen-shot would copy every file that gets deleted or updated by your FFS sync to J:\ , thus retaining one or more previous versions of such files.
That is different from syncing the difference between H:\ and I:\ to J:\