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Re: "Running "before" program" never ends

December 20, 2012, 11:55 am
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Sorry for the unclear post. I'll elaborate.

I have 3 profiles, each set to sync folder between my laptop and my server via VPN and network access.

I made a group profile, which I have scheduled at a specific time to run those profiles, unattended.

Each profile in that group is configured to run "connecttovpn.bat" before they begin. This should not be a problem, because if i'm already connected the .bat file executes and just closes immediatly.

The group profile executes at scheduled time but every morning I find that every profile has failed to run, hence no success.

To figure out what was going wrong every time I ran the group profile manually today.

I see the .bat file execute and close and I'm properly connected to my VPN.

Then when I look at SyncBack it keeps saying "Running "before" program". And after about a minute of doing so, I get a popup from syncback saying that it failed to run the profile. It seems like it doesn't realize the .bat file has long been executed and is waiting for it to tell it's done.

I tried putting "endlocal" in the batfile, which didnt really help.

Anyway, while debugging I did notice that when I run the profile a second time manually it DOES work. So the best thing I can do is see if the profiles execute properly tonight.
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Possible bug (just not sure which way it should be)

December 20, 2012, 1:11 pm
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In Profile settings, under Copy/Delete, "Do not verify files in parallel" is greyed out because parallel comparison is a setting for only paid version of SB.

However, under Compare Options, the setting "Do not compare files in parallel" is not greyed out. Its check box is able to be checked or unchecked.

It should be noted, though, that if I uncheck it and click OK or apply, when I come back to that same setting, it is still checked.
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Re: Incremental Backups - No files, but directory created!

December 20, 2012, 2:15 pm
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HI Dave,

I goofed in my explanation. I tried what you said and I realized that I did not explain what I was trying to prevent. Let me see if I can do it better:

Four profiles.
Each have destination path as
\\backuppc\backup_drive\%DATE%\profile1
\\backuppc\backup_drive\%DATE%\profile2
\\backuppc\backup_drive\%DATE%\profile3
\\backuppc\backup_drive\%DATE%\profile4


If any of these profiles run and there are no new files, I get the following:

12-20-2012\profile1 <empty folder>


I would prefer that the profile1 folder not be created if there were no files to write.

Is that possible?
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Re: Possible bug (just not sure which way it should be)

December 20, 2012, 4:57 pm
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Thanks for reporting this. It's now been fixed for the next release. As you say, although you can change the setting in the display it is always saved as enabled.
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Re: Special characters and the EXT3 disk format

December 20, 2012, 4:58 pm
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SyncBack V3 was never Unicode enabled, so it always had problems with non-English filenames. SyncBack V6 is fully Unicode enabled, so as long as your filesystem can also cope with Unicode, then there shouldn't be any problem.
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Re: Happy Holidays!

December 20, 2012, 5:01 pm
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Thank you very much, and a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too!

:wav:
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Re: Problem with Copy/Delete setting

December 20, 2012, 9:40 pm
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compatible with windows 2003

December 21, 2012, 1:17 am
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Good morning, in this page you wrote that:
SyncBackFree V6.2.30.0 includes extensive help file

System Requirements

Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP, or Windows 2003. Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows are supported. Both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows are supported.

http://www.2brightsparks.com/downloads.html#freeware

Can you help me?

Thanks
Daniele
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Errors generated when trying to "Backup" with SBSE v6.0.12.0

December 20, 2012, 5:37 pm
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Hi Lads,

So you get a brief understanding of our backup structure:
Clients: SBSE (Licensed) FTP to our Backup Server
Backup Server: Filezilla Server with FTP accounts configured

We have about 15 clients we do off-site for using this method (note they are small businesses so we don't need to go all-out on an overtly expensive solution).

1 client in particular we've been experiencing a large volume of errors.
* Files upload as 1KB in size before they drop.
* Constant errors with SBSE____.ZZL

Failed to copy from Source : Expected another server reply(15) : 426 Data connection closed. Error scanning content


R:200 Type set to I
L:PASV
R:227 Entering Passive Mode (XX,XXX,XXX,XXX,230,101)
I:Opening data connection to XX.XXX.XXX.XXX Port: 58981
L:STOR C_VOL-b001-i733.md5
R:150 Connection accepted
I:55 bytes transferred. (1.05 KB/s) (51 ms)
R:426 Data connection closed. Error scanning content


Error 2:
Failed to copy from Source : Expected another server reply(15) : 550 Operation not permitted. (Seeking not permitted)


L:STOR SBSE____.YFC
R:550 Operation not permitted. (Seeking not permitted)
L:DELE SBSE____.YFC
R:550 File not found
L:TYPE I
R:200 Type set to I
L:SIZE SBSE____.YFC
R:550 File not found


Can anyone help? This is driving me bananas trying to figure out.

* Rebuilt SBSE Profile from scratch
* Rebuilt Filezilla user account
* Created new FTP account and pointed to a totally different location
* This does not affect any other customer we use SBSE for.

Any help would be appreciated?
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Re: How to exclude files

December 20, 2012, 6:13 pm
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Hi VictorWarner,

How did you get SyncBack to work on OSX? They claim it doesn't. Any chance you've been able to sync between PC and OSX?

Cheers!
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Re: compatible with windows 2003

December 21, 2012, 3:14 am
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Sorry, running SyncBackFree on server versions of Windows is not supported (see here, bullet point 5). You would need the SE or Pro version, as stated.

Looks like that's a copy/paste error in the page you linked to - I'll ask the web-site guru to correct it.
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Re: Portable Version?

December 21, 2012, 3:36 am
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No, it doesn't use the registry at all. Profiles are saved as files (usually more than one), just like SE & Pro. These are saved in the same folder as the program (locked to that in the NoInstall version - for obvious reasons) - as shown via Preferences menu > Options > Expert tab > top 'setting' (not that you can change it)

When do you get the error about the DLL? It can't be for the same reason as the other guy, as automatic backups of profiles are not actually performed (not supported) in the Free version, and it was during that process that he was getting the error.

I can't get SyncBackFree to replicate that error on my PC, but it may be because I have that DLL registered already (I have all possible models of SB installed already, as you might guess).
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Re: Errors generated when trying to "Backup" with SBSE v6.0.

December 21, 2012, 4:07 am
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Why on earth are you using v6.0.12.0? It's way out of date (9 versions ago) - you should update to the latest version 6.2.30.0 for free from here:

http://www.2brightsparks.com/assets/sof ... _Setup.exe

Do not uninstall / reinstall, or you'll lose your profiles & settings. Just install 'over the top'

Here is what you are missing:

http://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/sbse-changes.html

As updates within V6 are currently free, we do not officially support outdated versions:

http://www.2brightsparks.com/help/index ... article=16

As a general comment in the meantime

- data channel errors are often to do with firewalls, routers, proxy servers, AV, other 'security' software, etc., either blocking and/or interfering with ('translating', etc) the FTP traffic (commands and/or actual data). It may be related to various 'sensitive' ports only, helpfully confusing the situation. But I've no idea what that 'Error scanning content' comment is about - you'd maybe need to ask FileZilla support (it may be FZ is quoting something it received from the remote underlying system - I've no idea if that can happen or if it's an FZ-internal message). I did a quick Google but found nothing obvious.

- for the error

R:550 Operation not permitted. (Seeking not permitted)

again you'd have to ask FZ - SE is trying to store a file and the server is refusing. Note that the DELE & SIZE commands thereafter are just SE's housekeeping (trying to ensure stray temp files are not left behind after a failed transfer). The DELE presumably failed because the STOR wasn't permitted to start at all (so, no partial file there), and the SIZE is just a cheat to double-check the file remnant isn't actually/really there but now just refusing DELE commands due to privileges, etc

I can't find any hits on Google on "seeking not permitted" that are relevant, and if I add 'ftp' to the search parameters, I just get hits that flag up on 'ftp' and 'permitted' - but nil with 'seeking' in them that I can see.

In the final analysis, both errors are on the FTP server, and you'd need to ask their support why. SE is trying to do what you ask, and the server's refusing.
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Re: Errors generated when trying to "Backup" with SBSE v6.0.

December 21, 2012, 4:08 am
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PS: anyone else with ideas is of course welcome to chip in
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Re: Incremental Backups - No files, but directory created!

December 21, 2012, 4:19 am
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No, because you're specifically stating that path in the Destination string, and you (obviously) have the option set to create it if it doesn't exist. Problem is, you can't turn that option off without defeating the logic that creates such folders for you (that don't yet exist) to put files in the next time there are some files to copy. Catch-22...the creating of the folders (if necessary) is done before the scan (otherwise there's nowhere to scan...), hence it can't decide whether to create it based on 'scan=no files', because it doesn't yet know that's the case. There's no code in Pro to check that afterwards.

The only thing I can think of is to use a script or batch file in Programs-After (and pass it the value of %_Destination% as a parameter) and get the script (etc) to check if that relative path is empty, and if so, delete it again.
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Re: compatible with windows 2003

December 21, 2012, 5:34 am
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Scan error

December 21, 2012, 5:55 am
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I installed SyncBackFree after using SyncBack, imported all profiles and did all settings (planning). But each profile now gives an 'scan error'. SyncBack is still working.
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Re: Scan error

December 21, 2012, 9:37 am
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You'd need to give more details, such as, what is it trying to scan, how are you addressing it, full error message from the log...

Have you tried creating a new profile direct from that version?

Note that I'm logging off now for the weekend, sorry. It's been a long week.
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Re: Could a variable be appended to a file

December 21, 2012, 10:32 am
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1.I could not gather much from the example given to create an own variable. Suppose I do one say xyz =%date%%time% , how do I use it automatically to create the specified folder in the Backup? folder/xyz ?

2. Within a group everything runs in ORDER. Perfect. But if I were to choose any profile in a group at random , how is the built in queue function helping?

Thanks.
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Re: Scan error

December 21, 2012, 11:44 am
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Problem solved. I backup to an external HD and SyncBackFree prefers the \\CH3HNAS\etc. style and doesn't like z:\backup\etc.
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