Cobian Reflector • Mirror Job backups up files at random

Hi.

The below problem already existed in Backup, now also confirmed in Reflector.

When running a mirror job from a NAS (Linux Samba) to a windows client for local mirror copy, the job selects folders -seemingly at random- which it deems needed to copy despite source and target file being the same with same name and datestamps. Even if the files were not copied in the previous backup run and there has been no change or access at all to the source and destination files.

I am using a read only account on the NAS side and explicitly unchecked using attributes, so source and dest filename/date/time stamps should be the criteria for fresh copy.

This does not work and it is unpredictably random. I have to note that this is a large file set; 670K+ files in 15TB+ of data. If effectively backups up TB's and TB's and more TB's every time it runs without the need to mirror it.

Any direction in this is appreciated and i can be contacted for any details required, testing or debugging.
Greetings from Deep, Dark, Africa and keep up the great work.

Statistics: Posted by MichaelA — 17 Apr 2022, 21:03 — Replies 1 — Views 16

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