Issues with Incremental Backup Not Skipping Unchanged Files

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StephenWargo
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Issues with Incremental Backup Not Skipping Unchanged Files

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Hi everyone,

I'm using Cobian Reflector 2.4.00 on Windows 10 and have set up an incremental backup task. Here’s my configuration:

Source: D:\Projects

Destination: G:\Backups\Projects

Backup type: Incremental

Schedule: Daily at 2 AM

The problem I'm facing is that even though the backup type is set to incremental, it seems to be copying all files every time the task runs, regardless of whether they have changed or not. This is causing the backup process to take much longer than expected.

1. Why might Cobian Reflector be copying all files instead of just the changed ones?
2. Are there specific settings I need to check or adjust to ensure only modified files are backed up?
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Re: Issues with Incremental Backup Not Skipping Unchanged Files

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Are you using the archive attributes? Are you cleaning them?
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