Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux
Subject	Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10
Date	2026-04-14 15:51 +0200
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On 2026-04-14 14:30, Jeff Gaines wrote:
> On 22/03/2026 in message <xn0pnl2flaav11l00m@news.individual.net> Jeff 
> Gaines wrote:
> 
>>
>> I am not sure if I have enough technical knowledge to frame this 
>> question properly but I will try!
>>
>> I have an HP Proliant Microserver Gen 8 with a Xeon CPU running Linux 
>> Mint xfce 21.3 acting as a home media server feeding media mainly to 
>> my NVidia TV Show.
>>
>> I back it up nightly to my Windows 10 server using a Widows app, 
>> SmartSync Pro.
>>
>> Last night for some reason it decided that all the file in the "Films" 
>> directory on the Linux machine were different to those on the Windows 
>> machine so it churned way deleting each file on the Windows machine 
>> and replacing it with an identical file from the Linux machine :-(
>>
>> It's about 2 TB of data and would still be running if I hadn't stopped 
>> it.
>>
>> I haven't knowingly changed anything on either machine, Linux is ext4 
>> and Windows exFat FS.
>>
>> Can anybody suggest why this might have happened or what I need to 
>> investigate please?
> 
> In case anybody come across this in the future the problem was that 
> there was a "link" on the Linux machine which Windows identified as a 
> directory so instead of ignoring it it went down the rabbit hole and 
> found pretty well the same files a second time but on a different path 
> which had "link-to-TV-series" inserted in it.
> 
> Rectification is simple, deleted the link IN LINUX, if you delete it 
> from Windows it goes down the rabbit hole again. I lost a complete TV 
> series and half another before I realised what it was doing, all 
> restored now from backups.
> 

Well, you got that problem because you are using Windows to back up 
Linux. Just use Linux to back up Linux. No such problems.



-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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Backing up Linux to Windows 10 "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-03-22 15:20 +0000
  Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-03-22 14:06 -0400
  Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-03-22 20:58 +0000
    Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-03-22 21:08 +0000
      Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2026-03-31 00:07 +0000
    Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-03-22 17:51 -0400
    Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-03-22 21:59 +0000
      Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-03-22 23:57 +0000
        Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-03-22 20:53 -0400
          Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-03-23 01:30 +0000
            Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-03-22 21:59 -0400
              Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-03-23 02:07 +0000
              Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-03-23 03:35 +0100
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-03-22 23:46 -0400
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-03-23 04:43 +0000
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-03-23 11:03 +0100
          Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-03-23 08:48 +0000
            Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-03-23 09:56 +0000
              Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-03-23 07:37 -0400
              Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-03-24 01:24 +0000
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-03-24 00:31 -0400
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-03-24 05:37 +0000
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-03-24 08:38 +0000
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-03-24 09:20 +0000
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-03-24 09:46 +0000
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-04 05:44 +0000
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-03-24 17:46 +0000
            Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 dillinger <dillinger@invalid.not> - 2026-03-23 11:06 +0100
        Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-03-23 08:42 +0000
          Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-03-23 19:12 +0000
            Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-03-23 22:00 +0000
              Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> - 2026-03-23 23:17 +0000
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-03-24 08:46 +0000
              Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-03-24 01:01 +0000
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-03-24 08:44 +0000
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> - 2026-03-24 15:57 +0000
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-04 05:42 +0000
  Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-04-14 12:30 +0000
    Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-04-14 09:51 -0400
      Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-04-14 15:04 +0000
      Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-14 21:58 +0000
        Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-04-15 07:44 +0000
          Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-04-15 04:53 -0400
            Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-04-15 12:31 +0000
              Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-04-15 09:42 -0400
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-04-15 14:25 +0000
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-04-16 05:50 -0400
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-04-16 09:53 +0000
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-04-16 12:35 +0200
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-04-16 20:37 +0100
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-20 00:23 +0000
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-04-20 04:31 -0400
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-04-20 12:06 +0200
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-21 01:08 +0000
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-04-21 08:04 -0400
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-04-21 22:52 +0200
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-21 21:19 +0000
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-21 22:13 +0000
              Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> - 2026-04-16 00:04 +1000
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-04-15 14:23 +0000
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-04-16 06:05 -0400
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> - 2026-04-16 20:16 +1000
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-04-16 08:53 -0400
    Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-04-14 15:51 +0200
      Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-04-14 11:01 -0400
        Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-04-14 20:39 +0200
        Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-14 21:56 +0000
          Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-04-15 10:57 +0200
            Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-04-15 07:06 -0400
    Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-14 21:55 +0000
      Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-04-15 07:40 +0000
        Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-04-15 04:55 -0400
        Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-15 22:18 +0000
          Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-04-16 07:38 +0000
            Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-16 07:55 +0000
              Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-04-16 08:40 +0000
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-16 09:03 +0000
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> - 2026-04-16 09:06 +0000
                Re: Backing up Linux to Windows 10 Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-04-16 06:40 -0400

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