From: stepore@be.here.now   
      
   On 9/8/22 14:39, wAYNE wrote:   
   > I have one external USB hard drive I use as a backup of an internal hard   
   > drive in the PC.  Although I have occasionally used Clonezilla to simply   
   > back up the files to the external HD, I thought it might go much quicker   
   > if I simply dragged and dropped from the PC drive to the external drive,   
   > but this isn't going as expected.   
   >   
   > What I've been trying to do is to simply select all folders on the   
   > internal drive and then copy and paste them onto the external hd.   
   > Because there are already folders present on the external hd from a   
   > prior back up, when I am presented with the pop up asking if I want to   
   > merge the files with the existing, I simply select no, apply to all   
   > files and skip.  However, much to my surprise, some or all of the new   
   > files aren't being saved to the external drive.   
   >   
   > Correcting this would be welcome and thanks in advance.   
   >   
      
   Stop doing that. Use rsync or something similar that's actually made for   
   this type of work.   
      
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