Following a Backup of specified Folders with WD Smartware PRO 2.3.0, I deleted several folders on the C drive.
I later ran another backup and expected the deleted folders to be removed by the 2nd Backup (assuming the backup is a mirror of selected folders). However, the deleted folders/files are still in the backup.
Is this normal??
Update: After seeing another post at this forum - appears this is normal. Deleted folders and files remain in the backup. This can cause the the backup to “grow” and become larger than the source. If required - the deleted Folders and/or fies can be manually deleted from the backup.
d-wduser wrote:
Update: After seeing another post at this forum - appears this is normal. Deleted folders and files remain in the backup. This can cause the the backup to “grow” and become larger than the source. If required - the deleted Folders and/or fies can be manually deleted from the backup.
That’s correct.
Backup and synchronization are two different things.
The Smartware software does not sync the files.
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Is this also the way that windows backup works?
If i retrieve the files from backup, will i get all the old and deleted files too or only the latest version? In other words, is it “only” a problem with maintaining the size of the backup area or it’s also a correctness issue?
Thanks.
All backup programs work in a similar way.
You might want to research for a synchronization software.
The files will be updated according to the settings you have. Smartware allows you to keep a number of changes of the files. After that amount set has been backed up the oldest file will be discarded when a new change is made thus keeping the amount of copies of the files to the set numbers previously selected.
