I have checked the 'Excluded Files' list and there is nothing in there that would avoid the right files being backed up. Why else would all the online backed up folders/files be of smaller size than those on my local drives? My concern is that iDrive is not backing up all the files on my local drives. The sizes of these folders don't match that of the info obtained from "Get Info" on my Mac of the same folders.Ģ/ The folder sizes shown in the backup set of iDrive's desktop app and/or restore tab don't match what is shown online when viewing my backed up files/folders.Īll the folders/files online are smaller than those shown on the iDrive desktop app/restore tab.
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I am using iDrive to back up my MacBook Pro and a couple of external hard drives.ġ/ The information in the backup set shown in iDrive's desktop app shows the size of each folder selected for backup. I have asked iDrive support this question many times now.įollowing submissions of error reports and even online chat they simply go 'around the houses' and avoid a simple answer. I have searched here and can't seem to find a previous conversation on this subject. I have resorted to this forum in the hope I can find an answer to my question - something the iDrive team don't seem to want to answer? (I couldn't find any information about Windows Phone.) My example is in Windows, but this is a concern in one form or another on nearly all platforms, including macOS, Linux, iOS and Android. This way, the user's data is not duplicated but the links are still preserved so no data is lost. Display the links in the IDrive apps when the user is viewing their backed up files If that file/folder has already been backed up on IDrive, don't do it again
When the IDrive app encounters a symbolic link or NTFS junction, it checks what location it points to on the PC
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And I would have to update all the exclusions again if I ever move the folder that contains them.
I'm aware that I can currently exclude the specific paths to all the NTFS junctions in my backup, but according to a program called NTFSLinksView, When IDrive backs up my old backups folder, it also follows the NTFS junctions and backs up the folders on my C:\ drive that they link to again, even though they've already been backed up directly.įor example, my E:\OldFiles folder is 171.2 GB on my computer, but it contains an NTFS junction at "E:\OldFiles\Drive\C\Document and Settings" which points to "C:\Users".īecause of this, IDrive also backs up the C:\Users folder again, resulting in a total size of 368 GB on IDrive. I have a folder on my E:\ drive that contains old backups from previous windows installations, and they still contain some symbolic links/NTFS junctions that link to places in my C:\ drive.
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