Problem backing-up userfiles

[alanwsg]

I've been using the new MwPro for a week or so now and I've hit a big problem for me.

I use an application called "Syncback" to backup my config and also to duplicate it on my netbook when I travel, it compares files and only copies those that have been changed.
The problem is the recycle bin, in 6.54 it was one big file (trash.rot13?), now I have the crypto folder with nearly 5000 separate files in it and syncback takes a couple of hours to go through and compare them all.

I think this might force me back to 6.54 unless anyone can suggest a solution.

[anniebrion]

I use "Allway Sync" and this takes Approx. 1 minute to back up my Thunderbird emails/Usenet and my Mailwasher Pro userfiles.

Does your sync application check the contents of the files? This would slow it down a lot

BTW, I have nearly 6,000 files in my crypto folder, this number can go into the 10s of thousands.

[rusticdog]

I wouldn't bother comparing the files, is there not a way you can set it to just overwrite ?

[anniebrion]

Allway Sync compares the files last change timestamps but not contents, it only takes a couple of minutes to sync my 91GiB Games folder when there is a mojor update to the files causing many GiB to need syncing.

The slow speed points towards Alan's Sync application checking the contents of each and every file.

[alanwsg]

Syncback checks the last-modified date of the files.
The problem seems to be backing-up to a network drive, if I backup to a local (e.g. USB stick) it's reasonably fast. I'll do some experimentation with the settings.

As a side question, should I shut down MwPro before doing the backup?
6.54 used to write-out a load of stuff to disk on shutdown so I always closed it before running a backup. Maybe the new version keeps everything on disk?

[anniebrion]

I've not had to shut MWP2010 yet before performing an automated backup, the files are backed up OK with Allway Sync and Acronis TrueImage

[rusticdog]

You may wish to have it shutdown MailWasher, though I don't think it's required. The only file offhand I can think that might need a close first is the MWP.db3 file