Handling of moved and renamed files

[thbenner]

I have a kind of evergreen backup, that meens every file which is on disk A or where there in the past ist also on disk B. That means, if a file is deleted on the disk A, it is not deleted on disk B.

Now I would like that files which are moved from one directy to another on disk A it is also moved on disk B.

Freefilesync can recognice moves but this option is not available if you create your own rules, which is required for the evergreen backup. The predefined rules delete files on disk B if they are deleted on A.

Any idea how to combine the evergreen backup with regocnizion of moves?

[xCSxXenon]

There is no way to do that unfortunately. The only way to 'detect moved files' is using two-way or mirror. But both of those will delete data on the destination

[Zenju]

This will be possible in the next FreeFileSync version!

FreeFileSync 13.0
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Detect moved files with "Update" sync variant (requires sync.ffs_db files)


See also: viewtopic.php?t=10594