Fab's Auto backup

[fincoder]

I use a Windows 10 "Windows to Go" USB (SSD in enclosure) created by Rufus. Any app can be installed on it for diagnostics or recovery, it's the full OS. Only issue is that it usually needs to load new drivers on first boot (automatic but a delay), and sometimes needs to reboot to install those drivers before getting to the desktop. Annoying because you need to be watching to use the boot drive selection key for a second time!

 

[ell]

I think my problem was my backup drive was exFAT, not fully compatible with fabs.

 

[britechguy]

I think my problem was my backup drive was exFAT, not fully compatible with fabs.

Where is the source of this information? I can find nothing in any of "the official documentation" I have that indicates you need to have any specific file system in use for the backup drive. It shouldn't be Fabs that's handling things at the filesystem level, but the OS.

 

[ell]

Where is the source of this information? I can find nothing in any of "the official documentation" I have that indicates you need to have any specific file system in use for the backup drive. It shouldn't be Fabs that's handling things at the filesystem level, but the OS.

Post in thread 'Fab's AutoBackup 7 Pro - a must have tool for techs'

Jun 12, 2024

Still working around the @sapphirescales reported issue. We narrowed this to target drive's file system. When copying to NTFS drive, the program works as expected but when dealing with exFAT, results can be quite funky, especially with long file paths (exFAT does not seem to play that well with this).
Next release will show a message prompt about exFAT and FAT32 risks of size and date warnings on copied files appearing in the log. This will also be mentionned at the top of job log if user chooses to continue anyway with such file system. Sorry exFAT users, that means one more click...

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Post in thread 'Fab's AutoBackup 7 Pro - a must have tool for techs'

Jun 12, 2024

Still working around the @sapphirescales reported issue. We narrowed this to target drive's file system. When copying to NTFS drive, the program works as expected but when dealing with exFAT, results can be quite funky, especially with long file paths (exFAT does not seem to play that well with this).
Next release will show a message prompt about exFAT and FAT32 risks of size and date warnings on copied files appearing in the log. This will also be mentionned at the top of job log if user chooses to continue anyway with such file system. Sorry exFAT users, that means one more click...

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The only issue here with NTFS copied to exFAT is with timestamps that will be different between source and target files.