Recovering from flat right side

[eadams]

If you specify a backup job to have a flat file and folder structure on the right side, will Syncovery recreate the original nested structure during a recovery operation? Will Partial File Updating work with a flat right side?

I have a physical server with 2 Windows 2008 R2 virtual servers. I am using Windows builtin backup utility to run system state backups with the output from one virtual server going to the other. I am then using Syncovery to move that output to an offsite NAS. I was hoping to use Partial File Updating to limit the amount of information that had to be transferred to the NAS. However, the Windows backup creates a separate dated folder each time it runs. Even though there may be little change in the files (and the file names remain the same from one job to the next) within that folder, Syncovery does not appear to be able to update those files and rewrites them in their entirety.

[superflexible]

Hello,

the option "Flat Right Side" is a one-way route, and it is not for backup purposes. It was added for customers that need to distribute files for further processing. Definitely one way only.

What you could do is try the specify the source folder with date variables, for example:
D:\Backup\$YEAR-$MONTHNUM-$DAYOFMONTH

Maybe you can mimic your backup utility's naming scheme. Further variables are shown here:
http://www.syncovery.com/variables/

With that, partial backup should work if the right-hand path is always the same. If problems remain, please let me know.

[eadams]

I couldn't find a variable or set of variables that would work. I wound up breaking the Syncovery backup job into two steps. The first step used the flat right side option to create an intermediate set on the same hard drive. The second Syncovery step then moved that set (using partial file updating) to an offsite NAS.

My folder structure is simple enough that I can manually recreate it if needed for recovery.