Destination folders

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Boonew
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Destination folders

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Hi folks, so I've just checked that my one incremental backup that backs up files of 23Gb, every couple days takes over 12hrs to complete.
I've just noticed that the destination folder has less files than the source.

so ...

Does Reflector change the destination folder structure in any way? All the files were there a couple of days ago, and now it looks like it's trying to do a full copy again, but instead of overwriting or skipping it may have deleted the contents and started again..?

Does anyone have any idea what is going on, I initially created a primary task and have duplicated this same task about 8 times for other servers (Just changed source and destinations) else all settings are the same.
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Re: Destination folders

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Ok I think I figured it out...

So it looks like the reset Archive attribute completes only at the end of the task, not after each file copy. So what was happening with the copy of 128Gb of data the task was either terminated due to slow network (300Mbps) or user intervention (I stopped it) the archive attributes are never reset, and assuming the hidden file/folders too.
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Re: Destination folders

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Yes, that's exactly the case.
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