I have a Server 2012 with Cloudberry backup to Amazon. The backup is set for block level, Real Time backup.

To me "real time" would mean that whenever a file changes, that file is backed up. Further guessing, I'm assuming that every file system has some sort of timestamp, changed when a file changes, that CB could look at, see that the "R:" filesystem has been updated as of {timestamp} and then go searching for files.

That's my guess.

But periodically I log on and see "real time backup starting in xxx seconds" and my inner moron says that if it happens periodically, then it's batch and not real time. On the other hand maybe it's best that I don't care.

But here is my other issue:

I have a SHARE on the server (the S: drive - not very imaginative) where another system places three files nightly. The files are (example only) A.gz (30gb) AB.gz (8gb) and XR.gb (22gb)

So what I mean is that every night, another system replaces the previous night's files.

And Cloudberry backup doesn't seem to notice and back them up. The timestamp under windows (navigate to S:\storage\) shows the newer date & time ... but they don't get backed up unless I manually run the backup.

So I'd like someone to tell me what to do
(run screaming into traffic has already been suggested and discarded)