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FreeFileSync did show a warning, which you apparently missed:

The following folders are significantly different. Please check that the correct folders are selected for synchronization.

The warning is triggered when more than 50% of items will be created or deleted.


Does this trigger and ...

Hi guys,

Just wanted to chime in. I landed here after realizing that gnome-schedule is not an (easy) option on Ubuntu now, so I wanted to try and use crontab instead. I admit this is the first time I try to set up a cron job.

Anyhow, I first fiddled with crontab to make sure I understood how it ...

'mount -a' producing fstab errors has nothing to do with crontab edits.

'mount -a' mounts all devices in fstab.
fstab is the table of filesystems. Browse fstab and see if you have an error at line 15.

Had a lot of issues with all of this, no specific errors, but not running. Then success! For future googlers:

Runs every 6 hours.
per https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CronHowto#GUI_Applications

Well I'm a dummy. The Kex stuff looked good on my server end. But while digging through docs on all the websites, noticed it was older than current. I was sitting back on 7.x something.

Updated BitVise to 8.26 and FFS working without error! I have much more setting debug and trial to work through ...

Server: Win10, BitVise
Client: Ubuntu 18.04.2LTS, FFS 10.9
Both on the same subnet, internal LAN.

Unable to connect to "192.168.1.136".
LIBSSH2_ERROR_KEY_EXCHANGE_FAILURE: Unable to exchange encryption keys [libssh2_session_handshake]

Trying to use password authentication.

Terminal via ssh and ...