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Rsync disconnects my external USB drive
I read through a number of posts on here and the benefits of Rsync keeping mirror copies without having to perform entire backups. That's a good thing if you have terabytes of data to backup and ther...
StephenB wrote: In the first paragraph it sounds like you did an incremental backup with rsync with the same source and destination folder? That seems likely to malfunction, though I am a bit surprised about a deletion.
The unmounted drive sounds like your real concern though. I agree that is not good behavior for an unattended backup.
The source/destination were different. I took a few snap shots of what I had that may be better than my written explaination. However, I don't see how I can attach those to this posting. It seems you have to link them. :(
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