kangyooni

Sorry, I didn't explain clearly. Partition restore I would do with Norton Ghost or whatever else. This would recover my computer to the point where system & all software is perfectly installed, including bittorrentsync but without documents, music and so on. So, I don't want to keep my whole system drive synced, only user-specific data. So what I'd expect from the sync software is only to load my personal files from other devices (and not to wipe other devices instead ) after I restore my system partition with dedicated software. And do that as easy as possible. What comes to my mind is: - create all sync folders, change their dates back to very old (like 1970 or something) and then start sync - have bittorrentsync configured on the partition image, but completely delete all sync logs and sync folders (will it work as expected?) Thanks

Hello, Started using bittorrentsync (thanks for an awesome piece of software!) for syncing my home and work laptop and will make a backup station using raspberry-pi and 32GB usb drive. Backup solution will be primary however. So far using former Skydrive. I am wondering what would be the typical data recovery scenario. What I would expect is: 0. Hard drive faulure 1. Restoring system partition of Windows. My data folders are now created empty (say standard win7 libraries: Documents, Pictures, Music) or simply doesn't exist. 2. My computer will now sync with backup server in the way I get all my stuff back. But - in case of Skydrive, everything started being deleted from the cloud. It seems logic, as my empty folders had seemingly a newer date, but it's not what I'd expected though... So what to do before a recovery sync to get files back instead of deleting it from 'cloud'? Cheers