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Back up a project folder to a second drive or cloud with rclone sync, dry run first
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For writers and editors who want a mirrored copy of a project folder that keeps changed and deleted files in a separate old folder. You end with a previewed, reported backup run. Based on the rclone documentation; it was not run.
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Back up a project folder to a second drive or cloud with rclone sync, dry run first
Coverage
For writers and editors who want a mirrored copy of a project folder that keeps changed and deleted files in a separate old folder. You end with a previewed, reported backup run. Based on the rclone documentation; it was not run.
Example
A hypothetical backup of a manuscript folder from one Windows drive to another, with a trial run, an interactive run and a run with a change report; not run.
Useful starting points
- Sync can delete files at the destination, so preview with a trial run before the real one.
- Symlinks are skipped by default, and excluded files are not removed from the destination unless you ask.
- If any error occurs during a sync, rclone does not delete destination files.
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