HBS3 One Way Sync To External USB Disk

[shadowsports]

TVS-473e v5.2.7.3297

HBS3 v26.2.0.938

MyBook 4TB external formatted NTFS

I’ve been using HBS One way sync for many years without issue. (Both NAS devices in my sig) One thing I’ve noticed with HBS 3 is that it creates a different folder structure than previous versions. I would like to better understand it.

In previous versions you would create folder pairs up to 5 per job. I had 15 folder, so 3 jobs, and every month anything I added to the NAS got synced to the external drive. The folder hierarchy on the NAS matched the folder hierarchy that displayed on the external. They looked the same.

With HBS3 this has changed. Now a single job can contain all of the folders I want to one way sync. No issues there.

DataVol1 is RAID5 x4 disks (1 acts as hot spare)

Dev1Partition2 is the 4TB External

Since I have multiple copies of this data, (mostly archive) I formatted the external and created a brand new job. It included the same 15 folders with the external as the target. The back up is a few terabytes. I ran the job, took a few hours, no problem. It created a root folder with the name of the job “Backup_Ext”.

I’ve reviewed the documentation, but I didn’t see anything about the folder hierarchy being created by the jobs (did I miss it?). I just want to understand what I’m looking at.

The “latest” folder has a timestamp of 11/29. It has the updated folders. While the contents makes sense, the timestamp does not. The “202511291510.Q” has a timestamp of 12/5, but it has the original data, not what was added. This is what I’d like to understand. I suspect this has to do with versioning, but I’m not finding documentation in order to confirm this.

Maybe it would be helpful if I ran the job again? I just want to understand what I’m seeing.

Thanks

[NA9D]

I would not look at the Linux creation times on the folder for anything. The “latest” folder was created on 11/29. I don’t think that time will ever change regardless of when the contents in that folder were modified. The 12/5 folder was created when you ran the backup and contains all the data that was previously in “latest".

Does that make sense?

Here is my directory of backups on my second NAS:

As you can see “latest” was created on 10 September. The modified date does not change even though you modify the contents of the folder. I think it would only change if you modified the name of the folder.

My backups run at Midnight so all the other folders is basically what was in “latest” the previous day.

Now, this is a backup which it sounds like you are doing. That is much different than a One-Way sync which is what your subject is about. A one-way sync job just copies the current items you have to the other side. There’s no version control. It’s just a straight file copy.

[shadowsports]

Greetings,
I understand what you are saying. I usually set these up as a one way sync, instead of back up. I think now this is where I went wrong. Selecting backup instead of sync (one or two-way). I was jumping back and forth between the two devices and HBS3 is much nicer. I’ll put something on the external and see if it populates on the NAS. I thought I tried this before. Now I don’t recall. Let me verify.

Thanks for the reply and for keeping me sane.