synctoy question(s)

[mmmmmdonuts]

I am trying to use sync toy to backup individual folders on my server to (I have like 10 folders as samba share) to different external HDD's using synctoy. My machine is windows 7.

Most of it is movies and music and I want to "Sync" I guess (more accurately echo probably) from the server to the backup drive. Basically once a week or so I want to backup any changes to the drives automatically.

So in testing it today I found my issue lies in getting sync toy to delete files. I read its documentation and it seems like this a short coming of the software in certain cases but not in others if I read it correctly.

Anyways I ran into a problem when I would delete a file on the server and it was already present in the external HDD it would not delete the file on the HDD. Instead it only wanted to add to the server. (This was in "Sync" mode) In echo mode it said there were no changes to be made.

I tried testing it the other way around and it basically wanted to add the file from the external which makes sense.

I guess I have two questions.

1) Is there away around this deletion problem?
2) If not is there another program I should use instead that does not have this shortcoming? (I would prefer GUI but I can work with CLI if I have to)

Its a windows client from ubuntu server with samba shares.

Thanks.

 

[S-F]

Why not just use robocopy?

 

[mmmmmdonuts]

Thanks I will give it a try.