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I asked not because I expected it to have that feature, but because ffs has many many features that I have no exposure to as a basic pattern user. That means I don't know how many bases it covers. It doesn't seem like a "simple sync software" to me <g>. Fair enough if this can't be handled via ffs.

Any input on this?

I have a rudimentary understanding of how to configure ffs so bear with me.
What ffs currently does is to once a day to look at a folder, and copy the folders and files that have been modified since the last run to another location. When it does that it creates a new year folder if needed, a new ...

I had noticed something odd about the task - even though the account was using to create the tasks was a domain admin account, the task aways wanted to be saved to run as an account with the same name, no domain suffix (ie it changed from acct@dom.com to acct). It was listed in task scheduler as a ...

I guess I'm at a dead end with this.
I'll try to remember to run the sync manually every day.

Pattern repeated.
Only diff is that when I terminated one of the two ffs processes that continued to run after I ran it manually and closed ffs, only one of the ffs processes closed. other times both closed after I closed one. The two versions are 32 vs 64.

Today the task has been running for 30 min but it's obviously stalled - the day folder, 20, is not created. The every minute chime is back.

It is not working.
- At the scheduled time, the task ran, but is marked as having been terminated by the user.
- The daily folder is not created.
- The log file that opens from the ffs application is from yesterday's manual run
- every minute the pc since the task ran, there is a chime.
- the ...

Oh, possibly it is ok - I'd forgotten that the scheduled task was disabled. It's enabled now, will see later when it triggers.

I have 11.27 now, thank you, didn't solve the issue.
Today was the first time it ran with 11.27. It is different; I saw this dialog at the scheduled task time: 2022-10-18 21_17_51-FreeFileSync – Warning.png
I switched to ffs main window...and have no idea what I'm supposed to do there, but to get ...

Thanks I'll try that when it's available. Seems to be not yet published.

Manually it goes like this: after I click "Ignore" the dialog confirming intent to sync appears.
After the sync, which does create the new "day" folder (16 in this case) a warning is reported:

An issue is that the folders are not created automatically.
When I run the batch manually it warns that the folder 2022\10\15 does not yet exist; but will be created automatically, and if I hit he button "Ignore", and then sync, the folder is created. But when I run as a scheduled task that issue ...

Time Span - would that be compare sync settings, filter, Time Span: Today?

Is there a way to preserve the original datetime on the file that is copied?

Thanks, great info, appreciate it.

Thank you for the reply.
Yes I'm testing with Update.
forfiles, that's a new one to me, I will check it out.

If I did copy an extended hive to a new folder at every backup (f:\ffsbackups\202210\03), it'd contain only the new and changed files, correct? I'm not certain because if ffs compares what ...

I've only used ffs in the most rudimentary fashion, and even after checking the feature list I'm not sure if it can do what I'd like. I would like it to:

[1] copy changed files periodically to a target folder whose name would mirror the copy date
for example I'd end up with folders like this
f ...

Plerry, it seems likely that your tip has provided the solution. I've not had a recurrance of this issue since I split the syncs for pc A and pc B into distinct jobs. Thank you!

Thanks for that input. I will split the batch into two: A C and B C

The dmp files are generated on the desktop, the full name is like
FreeFileSync_x64.exe 11.12 CrashDump 2021-09-03 130500.dmp
they are zero bytes - no content.

I've been experimenting with the free version of freefilesync. I don't use the real time sync version, so far. The deploy is on a small windows 2012r2 domain. It's being asked via batch to copy one file from A and one from from B to server C.

In the month or two I've had it running it's gone pretty ...