I have setup a backup to an attached USB drive (Maxtor) which, in principle, is running.
My goal is to mirror the LinkStation CHL. The "overwrite backup/ differential" kind of backup without creation of backup folders kind of does that. Differential is needed to remove obsolete files. However I want to run separate jobs for parts of the content, eg:
sources on LS:
/share1/sub1
/share1/sub2
/share2/sub3
/share2/sub4
/private/sub5
When I create a job for /share1, the subfolder land in the root directory of the destination USB drive, i.e. there will be /sub1 and /sub2 and no /share1 above them. At the same time it is seems that it is not possible to create a backup job starting at root / of the LS. So in order to get the whole disk backuped several jobs are needed.
Asides from messing up my folder structure, there's a bigger problem. As soon as the job for /share2 runs, it will wipe /sub1 and /sub2 because they are not part of the /share2 source. So this cannot achive what I want - replicate the source folder structure.
Is there any way to
1. define a destination folder so the sources don't get placed into the root?
2. copy with several jobs into this destination and the job will not delete files and folders that are above the given target folder?
Maybe I'm just not seeing something here and approaching it all wrong. In short I want to achieve a full mirror. And some folders on the LS have to be removed from general view through access rights which means not everything be of a single folder (/share)
Thanks for any suggestions
Message Edited by tinu on 09-06-2009 03:16 AM