Hello,
It seems Win 7 will periodically change my drive letters for my external drive. I have Windows task scheduler backing up some of my drives to my NAS. But I worry that changing the drive letters around will result in the wiping out of my "real" backup data.
For example, say I have my iTUNES on Drive E and I use FFS to backup drive E to my NAS. Then windows changes Drive E to Drive D and assigns Drive E to a different external drive. If I don't catch it, I am concerned the revised drive will result in backing up the wrong thing and wiping out my library.
I have tried to assign a "static" drive by my reasearch says there is nothing I can do about that. Is there a safegaurd that would prevent this loss of my backed up data?
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Create a batch that tests for the existence of the drive specifically the drive letter or contents before running the sync.
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FFS supports variable drive letters by referencing them by volume name. See help file chapter "Variable Drive Letters".
A second safe-guard is that FFS checks if, roughly speaking, 50% of files will be created or deleted, which catches the situation where you assign the wrong directories for synchronization. This is shown as a warning in case you have not setup errors to be ignored, which would ignore warnings, too.
A second safe-guard is that FFS checks if, roughly speaking, 50% of files will be created or deleted, which catches the situation where you assign the wrong directories for synchronization. This is shown as a warning in case you have not setup errors to be ignored, which would ignore warnings, too.
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Quick reply - thnx. BTW I am using mirror.
I will have to think about your solution. If my batch could check for a test file before going to the next step, that would be pretty neat. Not sure how to do that but I will give it some thought. Testing for just the drive letter won't help - it will always find the drive letter.
Let me ask you this. If my batch attempts to backup Drive E/itunes and W7 changes the drive letters; and the new Drive E has no folder called "itunes".... will the batch just abort? If it does that, I just have to make sure I don't duplicate the file structures in my various external drives.
I will have to think about your solution. If my batch could check for a test file before going to the next step, that would be pretty neat. Not sure how to do that but I will give it some thought. Testing for just the drive letter won't help - it will always find the drive letter.
Let me ask you this. If my batch attempts to backup Drive E/itunes and W7 changes the drive letters; and the new Drive E has no folder called "itunes".... will the batch just abort? If it does that, I just have to make sure I don't duplicate the file structures in my various external drives.
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Hi Zenju -FFS supports variable drive letters by referencing them by volume name. See help file chapter "Variable Drive Letters".
A second safe-guard is that FFS checks if, roughly speaking, 50% of files will be created or deleted, which catches the situation where you assign the wrong directories for synchronization. This is shown as a warning in case you have not setup errors to be ignored, which would ignore warnings, too.Zenju
You posted while I was responding. Thanks for your quick reply as well.
I will look at your chapter "variable drive letters". On the batch files errors are always igonored so that won't help.
Great product and thanks for your support.
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open the software and go to help file, look there. i was searching for it on the website. :P
