Moving seprate out date duplicacy backup to new hard drive and use that to backup

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#1

Hi there,

I have 2 backups of Duplicacy 1 that is very up-to-date and another that is stored on an external drive that is likely months out of date as it’s pretty much full.

I want to get a new hard drive so that I have 2 copies of my stuff backed up on separate hard drives using Duplicacy. For moving backups from the full hard drive to a new hard drive, is it just a case of simply move all the files, then I just set duplicacy to back up onto the new drive and then run a backup?

or is there something else? i know in duplcacy i can set a backup to copy across onto another storage, as a scheduled task but is better to have 2 separate backup ids or set a schedule to copy the contents from the recent backup to the new drive?

#2

Pretty much.

Doing a straight copy (with Windows Explorer or whatever) would result in a bit-identical copy-compatible secondary storage. Or you could do a Duplicacy copy (with or without -bit-identical) and end up with just a copy-compatible storage. Either way is fine. Since it’s the same media type, personally I’d go with the former. Makes it easier to repair corrupted chunks if that ever occurs.

Honestly, I’d just go with copy.

With copy-compatible storages, you can repair corrupted chunks. Only thing to keep in mind is to copy in one direction only and not continually swap them over, otherwise you’ll end up with different history with the same revision numbers.

(You can swap them over, so long as you make sure to complete a copy between them.)

#3

Thank you, so for that just copy the files from the full hard drive to the new drive in windows.

I was wondering what would happen if was to move the backups from the full hard drive, to the new drive then copy files from the up to date drive onto the same new drive? Would i see the most recent backup from the other hard drive on the new hard drive?