Product Erases Target Folders

[Gabriel]

I am evaluating your product to use as a Backup program. As you will be able to see from my user profile I have folders scattered all over the Network. My goal is to Sync them in one place for a Disaster Recovery backup of critical files. The total amount of Data is normally about 40 GIGABYTES.
My goal was to do a sync everyday around 6pm when no-one is here so if I need to make the backup that day the data is there.

The problem is after the program has copied over the files in the folders, when the program Synchronizes the next day, it erases folders on the local drive. Why in the world would it be doing that? This makes the program useless to me, after weeks of testing I still cannot get it to work. Is there a fix for this?

Your program is “Exactly” what I am looking for, but randomly erases folders. Can you please assist? I really only need the data once a month and would not mind erasing the data once I burned it to other media and then replading the flders.

Gabriel Tate
Louisiana Department of Insurance
Applications Programmer
225-342-4728

Profile File: c:\program files\viceversa pro 2\tsrreadonly.fsf

Folders
- Sources: (Locked)
- Targets: (Compressed)
- "\\ldifileshare\_MIS\" <to> "C:\TSRBackUps\_MIS\" (Include Subfolders)
- "\\ldifileshare\Company Licensing\" <to> "C:\TSRBackUps\Company Licensing\" (Include Subfolders)
- "\\ldifileshare\Company Licensing Pending Applications\" <to> "C:\TSRBackUps\Company Licensing Pending Applications\" (Include Subfolders)
- "\\ldifileshare\Fiscal\BUDGET\" <to> "C:\TSRBackUps\Fiscal - BUDGET\" (Include Subfolders)
- "\\ldifileshare\Fiscal\FISCAL\" <to> "C:\TSRBackUps\Fiscal - FISCAL\" (Include Subfolders)
- "\\ldimainfile\Fraud\FRAUD-DB\" <to> "C:\TSRBackUps\Fraud\" (Include Subfolders)
- "\\ldifileshare\IT CD Library\" <to> "C:\TSRBackUps\IT CD Library\" (Include Subfolders)
- "\\ldifileshare\IT RFPs\" <to> "C:\TSRBackUps\IT RFPs\" (Include Subfolders)
- "\\ldifileshare\Life and Annuity Storage Logs\" <to> "C:\TSRBackUps\Life and Annuity Storage Logs\" (Include Subfolders)
- "\\ldifileshare\OPC\Complaints P&C\" <to> "C:\TSRBackUps\OPC - Complaints P&C\" (Include Subfolders)
- "\\ldifileshare\OPC\IR Emergency Plan Documents to be Backed Up\" <to> "C:\TSRBackUps\OPC - IR Emergency Plan Documents to be Backed Up\" (Include Subfolders)
- "\\ldifileshare\OPC\Policy Forms P&C\Letters\" <to> "C:\TSRBackUps\OPC - Policy Forms P&C - Letters\" (Include Subfolders)
- "\\ldifileshare\Public Affairs\" <to> "C:\TSRBackUps\Public Affairs\" (Include Subfolders)
- "\\ldifileshare\Tax\" <to> "C:\TSRBackUps\Tax\" (Include Subfolders)
- "\\intranet\intranet\" <to> "C:\TSRBackUps\Intranet\" (Include Subfolders)
- "\\ldifileshare\Users\amroberts\" <to> "C:\TSRBackUps\Users - amroberts\" (Include Subfolders)
- "\\ldifileshare\Users\cduhon\" <to> "C:\TSRBackUps\Users - cduhon\" (Include Subfolders)
- "\\ldifileshare\Users\nvogt\My Documents\" <to> "C:\TSRBackUps\Users - nvogt\" (Include Subfolders)
- "\\ldifileshare\Users\pcasemere\My Documents\" <to> "C:\TSRBackUps\Users - pcasemere\" (Include Subfolders)
- "\\ldifileshare\Users\sbrooks\My Documents\" <to> "C:\TSRBackUps\Users - sbrooks\" (Include Subfolders)
- "\\ldifileshare\Users\sellis\" <to> "C:\TSRBackUps\Users - sellis\" (Include Subfolders)
- "\\ldifileshare\Users\sgilchrist\" <to> "C:\TSRBackUps\Users - sgilchrist\" (Include Subfolders)
- "\\ldifileshare\Users\srobertson\emergency disaster\" <to> "C:\TSRBackUps\Users - srobertson\" (Include Subfolders)
- "\\ldifileshare\Users\twilliams\My Documents\Emergency Information\" <to> "C:\TSRBackUps\" (Include Subfolders)
- "\\ldifileshare\Public Affairs\ADAVID FILES\" <to> "C:\TSR Folder Templates\Public Affairs - ADAVID FILES\" (Include Subfolders)
- Continue even if some source/target folders are inaccessible
- Create sources/targets that do not exist
Comparison
- Comparison Type: Size and Timestamp
- Ignore any second difference
Execution
- Method: Backup (Mirror Source to Target)
- No overwrite / read-only / error confirmations
- Log File: "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\ViceVersa PRO 2\log1.log"
- Log only summary and errors
- No archive for deleted/replaced source files
- No archive for deleted/replaced target files
- Process Priority: High
- Network friendly folder scanning
- Copy files even if timestamp changes after initial comparison
- Try to copy files that are in use by other applications
- Verify successful file copy by checking file CRC
- No empty source/target check
- Replace newer target files with older source files (backup only)

[TGRMN Software]

Hello

I see you are backing up from the network to the local and I noticed the following folder pairs:

- "\\ldifileshare\Users\srobertson\emergency disaster\" <to> "C:\TSRBackUps\Users - srobertson\" (Include Subfolders)
- "\\ldifileshare\Users\twilliams\My Documents\Emergency Information\" <to> "C:\TSRBackUps\" (Include Subfolders)

Since subolders is included, the second pair could cause folder deletion in C:\TSRBackUps\

thanks
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[gabe]

Problem solved. Thank you so much.
Have a great one.