I had a hard disk fail. I restored everything with a successful URBACKUP restore.
This is a Windows 7 PC and the restore seems to have worked.
A hard disc full of videos. Film and TV rips. MP4, AVI, etc.
The oddity is why have I got loads of files called “filename.ext_urbackup_restore_0” sitting next to the real files?
The real file seems to work fine, but there is a clone next to it of the same size.
video.avi
video.avi_urbackup_restore_0
another.avi
another.avi_urbackup_restore_0
etc…
I run the pairs through a file compare tool and they seem to be identical.
Those files also happily play in VLC. Just all are dups.
Any thoughts before I set out deleting them?
This does not seem to be every file, but around 15% of them have a duplicate.
On a drive where I have 11679 files, 1534 of these are the *urbackup_restore_0 files
Can’t really see a pattern. Some whole shows have them, others don’t.
Can get one show, two folders. One folder has the dups. The folder next to it no dups.
A puzzle…