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Or you can write any suitable script (e.g. a *.bat or *.cmd file) that starts your sync (1), waits until sync (1) has ended (e.g. via a CALL or using the /wait option) and then starts sync (2).

Thanks very much for you reply! I want to know more about the CALL or /wait you mentioned. Are they a ...

In a simplified example, say I have 2 ffs jobs:
(1) sync a main copy to a backup
(2) sync the backup to "the backup of backup"

I want to run them sequentially in a script, 1 followed by 2, not in parallel, otherwise the "backup of backup" may not get the latest change made in the main copy.

I can ...

@xCSxXenon I don't think \\MY_NAS\ can be the source of a ffs job. It's not a folder. It can't hold sync.ffs_db.

If I use MacOS, \\MY_NAS won't even be part of the path. The path will be /Volumes/A and /Volulmes/B.)

Say I have 2 remote folders, \\MY_NAS\A and \\MY_NAS\B , which are top level folders in my NAS over SMB.

I mirror them into a portable drive, like F:\offline_backup\A and F:\offline_backup\B .

I often move large files between A and B, so I hope to make "detect moved files" work when that happens ...