http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ Discussion forum for FBackup users. en Sun, 12 Feb 2012 07:06:44 +0000 http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/drive-disappeared-backup-deleted#post-1520 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:25:18 +0000 Admin 1520@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>The Professional and Standard editions of Backup4all include that feature. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/drive-disappeared-backup-deleted#post-1517 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:24:18 +0000 biologic 1517@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Ah, I see. And which versions of Backup4all include this feature? </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/drive-disappeared-backup-deleted#post-1457 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:55:00 +0000 Admin 1457@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>It seems you use the Mirror backup type with "Remove excluded or deleted files from backup" option enabled.<br /> If the source files were missing they were removed from backup.</p> <p>In our commercial version of the application (<a href="http://www.backup4all.com">Backup4all</a>), there is an extra option to remove excluded files only if the source drive is available. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/drive-disappeared-backup-deleted#post-1449 Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:30:04 +0000 biologic 1449@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>By the way, excellent software. I have always been very happy with it, and had to use it twice already to restore from hd failure. On to my problem...</p> <p>The other day, I was working on a music project when my program told me a set of samples could not be found. I went to Windows Explorer to locate them, and realized that the entire F: drive had disappeared. It was simply gone from view!</p> <p>I immediately shut down the computer, opened it up and made sure all my hd cables were firmly plugged in. When I rebooted, the drive was back! However, when my 5pm scheduled FBackup job started, I realized it was re-adding everything from my F drive to the backup drive (G:). This leads me to believe that the previous day during the 5pm backup (while my F drive was "gone"), FBackup had removed all those files from the copy! </p> <p>I lucked out and did not lose any data, but this seemed to me a potentially serious design flaw! If in the future I lose a drive because it actually goes bad, will FBackup delete those files from the backup copy? This would defeat the purpose. If a drive cannot be found, can the program pause and show an error message before proceeding? I can't feel safe using a backup program if it can potentially delete my files. I hope this makes sense.</p> <p>Thanks. </p>