hello
i did a mistake : i launched a rclone sync -P remote:/ ./local, but from the wrong folder. As a result, the log says that lot of files were “well deleted”, as they doesnt figure within the source directory.
it’s under linux, on a ntfs volume. Is there a simple way to recover those? as i still have the (long) logs, who shows that dozen (or even hundred) of files has been deleted. Does rclone can cancel a previous order?
thank you vm
no. tho, might try a NTFS undelete utility.
no. fwiw, to prevent that from occurring again, try something like:
rclone sync ./local remote:full --backup-dir=remote:incrementals/`date +%Y%m%d.%I%M%S`
my initial command was this, how to adapt to the second one of your answer?
>rclone sync -P tribunal:/en-direct-du-tribunal/* ./ --metadata --header "X-Archive-Meta-Mediatype: audio" --header "X-Archive-Meta-title: Hey This Works" --header "X-Archive-Meta-Creator: It's Me" --dump headers
thank you 
in additon, several lines in output appears like :
>2025/11/24 16:41:05 INFO : sauveg_toshtecra/LMDE/hd/.Private/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbxAv1m2plVAkSfh3XwbR-T1EKxgrjgNSAuLy4x8hAtTy6kkiu.xy7kFE--/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbxAv1m2plVAkSfh3XwbR-T1EKxgrjgNSAubR-WYZ0QqbXBoGP1RN6uDU--/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FXbxAv1m2plVAkSfh3XwbR-T1EKxgrjgNSAu570ass7D9agR1p8h8fGhpm5D7ohWxa7FpjyhK4ZA7jc-/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbxAv1m2plVAkSfh3XwbR-T1EKxgrjgNSAuKTr9j8V4W55ZOVLwPrmZfU--/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbxAv1m2plVAkSfh3XwbR-T1EKxgrjgNSAuuOjwZkq2jC5.A2-mOWvCpE--/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbxAv1m2plVAkSfh3XwbR-T1EKxgrjgNSAuQ1PdORwZ8RkKWO-K9OdXdk--/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbxAv1m2plVAkSfh3XwbR-T1EKxgrjgNSAuRgOICySL.17UemAFN22nh---/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FXbxAv1m2plVAkSfh3XwbR-T1EKxgrjgNSAuKG.IpJiq5hvK-tyLYzipyX8zAUdb4NjIEPtkEM9NnIY-/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbxAv1m2plVAkSfh3XwbR-T1EKxgrjgNSAujQL5POKn2o2PQQUlES5kZ---: Deleted
2025/11/24 16:41:05 INFO : sauveg_toshtecra/LMDE/hd/.mozilla/firefox/49gnyrql.Default User/storage/permanent/chrome/idb/3870112724rsegmnoittet-es.files/2220: Deleted
what does it means, the “encrypted” one ? i think it was data on a luks, backed up on that ntfs volume
afiak, should not use trailing asterisk, instead use en-direct-du-tribunal/
fwiw ./ should not be used with rclone, leads to mistakes, such as in your case.
best to use a full path for the dest
here are two ways
rclone sync -P tribunal:/en-direct-du-tribunal/ /home/username/directory/full --backup-dir=/home/username/directory/incrementals/`date +%Y%m%d.%I%M%S`
rclone sync -P tribunal:/en-direct-du-tribunal/ /home/username/directory/ --backup-dir=/home/username/incrementals/`date +%Y%m%d.%I%M%S`