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https://freefilesync.org/faq.php#limitations Zenju, 03 Jan 2019, 09:02

Thanks for the Heads up !

Hello All,

What if any number of File Limits are there?

Say I have a collection of .tif files about 5 million plus.
Would Free File sync be able to read into a directory of this many images, then sync them and such?

Try to enable ffs to copy locked files options in settings.

The Backup will copy the file in it's last property state.

Can anyone else confirm?

Does your NAS have an IP address?

\\162.162.162.162\Path_to_Share\Share_Name\ to \\My_Backup\Share_Name\

Future Request:

Some of my computers don't go online because of all of the malware, trojans and such . . .
When I tried to configure the revisions with the time stamp, I wanted to view the help file and it tried to take me on line which was not an option for my computer.

Request that the HELP file ...

That's not exactly the same error reported Giangi

Correct, but even you run the application with elevated permissions, the error still continues.

Back to Googling . . .

https://freefilesync.org/faq.php#permissions-error

Thanks Zenju, but these were set as default once I started using this application.
I truly think that this may be a security / permissions issues. The Windows Environment is just so security conscious and overly protective with just the simplest ...

Are you running on a UAC aware os? Is UAC active?Giangi

Thanks Giangi for you reply
No, is is not turned on . . .

This would be nice . . .

Wouldn't this would be an overhead on the workstation because it would always have to be running.

best to schedule the backups with Task Scheduler so that there is a small footprint on the workstation & less overhead on the memory and processors.

Correct me if I am wrong . . .

I am curious about the logic of doing it that way, why so?

I keep them in a different directory then after a while, delete them.

Hello Everyone,

I am running these backup jobs as admin and I had this error message . . .

Cannot read permission of \\in_a_galaxy\Far_Far_away\Starwars_8.xls
Error Code 5: Access is Denied (Get File Security)

Has anyone ever seen these errors?
What was the resolve?

I have tried to manually ...

Yes, the error message is part of the log file, the logs with errors has the error suffix in the log file name.
But my question is this . . . .

When it comes to the Items Remaining, How can I tell what was skipped from viewing the logs?

Hello FreeFileSync users,

I have some issues with the logs that are kinda hard to understand . . .
The opening of the logs lists the date that it was completed and some other the items such as . . .

- completed
- Items Remaining 3 (370 kb)
- Total Times

When it comes to the Items Remaining , How ...

Where is the ffs installed?
Where are the jobs being ran from?

The server should be both of the answers... other wise, it would be impossible to run the jobs from the workstation trying to backup files on a server that may be under a volume shadow copy which may be causing a lock(?)...

Under the ...

This is kinda tricky with little options.
What happens if you close the configuration window and try to do a "Tools>Reset Layout . . . Will this help?

Can you try to move the oldest ffs_gui files to another directory?
Like keep your patches and ffs_gui's in one location and the ones that are not ...

To schedule a backup, you will need to save the batch file and when you set up your Task Scheduler, you would select the batch file to run and have it for the program to run, then for additional arguments (select the path to the FreeFileSync.exe) that will get you started. Note when you are ...

Check the options when you save as a Batch file, there you can set the option to save a log, close program when complete or ignore errors and such.

Is the FreeFileSync considered a Server Backup app or a PC backup up?

When I install Free File Sync 8.3 I was having some issues that I dont want to elaborate here. So I have downgraded to Free File Sync 7.5 & the crashes went away.

Now when I start FFS jobs, there is some Type of Warning

"Configuration file "C:\Backup\Backup.ffs_gui" is incomplete. The missing ...

Try the revisions or versions option. %TimeStamp%

A user sent me a script which may be useful for admins who want to run FreeFileSync and send a status report via email:
Lane BenekeZenju

Could this be added into the next build as a feature request? Thanks for sharing Lane.

it is possible to attach the last log file in email?JonBenavides

I guess that some of the log files are too large for email depending on the size of your backup disk.