How to archive a copy of a folder without deleting folder

I'm trying to develop a rather simple backup system that involves archiving a copy of a folder whose contents have been modified within a certain period of time and saving it to a backup external disk. What should be rather simple is complicated by the fact that Hazel "deletes" the archived folder once it's been zipped. I don't want to have to unzip the folder every time it is backed up. In fact, I'd like to just move the zipped file to the backup disk. I have had to use 'copy' instead of 'move' because then the problem is much worse: I have to copy the zip file again to the original local folder and unzip it to recover its contents. I'm obviously doing something wrong but I have been unable to find the way to do this by looking at the documentation.

Here is the rule I created:

https://pasteboard.co/St5Cn7TztWc4.png

How about copying first, then archiving?

Mr_Noodle wrote:How about copying first, then archiving?

I guess that would imply creating an additional rule for the folder where the files are copied to, right?

I thought about that but expected there would be an easier way to do that. Archiving, copying and deleting the archive seemed a bit more intuitive.

When doing a copy, subsequent actions in the same rule apply to the copy.

Mr_Noodle wrote:When doing a copy, subsequent actions in the same rule apply to the copy.

OK, I must obviously be doing something wrong but here's the rule I created:

https://i.postimg.cc/YCnZbDRT/SCR-20230615-ommj.png

This rules is supposed to monitor a folder containing another folder with the name 'CICA_WORKING_NEW'. If the contents of the folder are modified, I would like for the folder to be zipped and moved (only the zipped file) elsewhere. Right now I have 'copy' instead of 'move' for safety but it should still work.

This does not do anything, though. Nothing is copied. Nothing is archived. Nothing is moved.

Try the troubleshooting guide here: https://www.noodlesoft.com/kb/hazel-tro ... ing-guide/

Report back with the results of the tests there.