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Will an Incremental Synchronization Overwrite Existing Data on a Launched Target Server?

Yes. Data existing on the target server will be overwritten by data synchronized from the source server.

Reasons

Linux file-level synchronizations depend on rsync. During a synchronization, data changes are identified by comparing data on the source and target servers. These changes will be synchronized to the target server, and existing data on the target server will be overwritten or deleted.
Linux and Windows block-level migrations are performed by block. During a synchronization, the system identifies the differences between disk blocks on the source and target servers. It does not compare the data on those disk blocks. The changed disk blocks on the source server will be synchronized to the target server, and existing data on these data blocks of the target server will be overwritten or deleted.

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