How to stop automatic back up

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jcgc

Running the latest version of FFS on Win 7. I created a back to an external hard drive with drive letter E:

I have found that when I plug in a USB thumb drive it is automatically making the same back up to it as well. First of all, I didn't think this would automatically run a back up job and I don't see it running in applications or processes.

How do I stop this?
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srjones67

What have you setup to automate syncs? By default FFS doesn't setup any automated syncs. And if you plug in a USB drive and it gets assigned E: by windows of course a backup would go to it also.
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jcgc

What have you setup to automate syncs? By default FFS doesn't setup any automated syncs. And if you plug in a USB drive and it gets assigned E: by windows of course a backup would go to it also.srjones67
I haven't set up anything to automate syncs and I can't see how it can be done with FFS. I have saved mirrored syncs to three different external hard drives. I assigned drive letters P and M to two of those drives and one Windows assigns E.

The thumb drive has no software on it other than files I have copied there.
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jcgc

OK, I have just delved into FFS and see that there is a way to automate syncs. That said, I haven't initiated that so still don't see how this is happening. The particular job is over 50gb of data. So, even as I delete it it starts the job again on the thumb drive.
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srjones67

Did you setup RealtimeSync?
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jcgc

Did you setup RealtimeSync?srjones67
Nope and had no desire to. I want to control when and what is synced.