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Its possible Logon Credentials for the source server expired or were removed from Windows, you can also IP Addresses - FFS should ask for the credential's to access the network locations the first time you try and sync

Share the folder and use UNC File Paths

Hi Perry,

Currently i am not running RTS, Just a Batch Job for FFS.

Previously the time was set to 1 hour and i experienced similar behavior, if i monitor it in real time i can see that the comparison usually only takes 10 - 20 minutes. This gives it about a minimum 1 hour 40 mins to perform the ...

Anyone have any insight?

I do the same thing with our File Server which is Server 2016, I am using a Synology NAS which is compatible with Windows Domain Services. I only had to Navigate to the NAS via explorer once and then typed in the correct Credentials to gain access. After this Windows Automatically remembers ...

Hi guys,

I use the Donator version of FFS to run a Batch Job on Server 2016, Task Scheduler Runs the Batch ever two hours and it mirrors our Network Shares to a Synology NAS. The actual Mirror works great, however over the last few months, finished batche jobs seem to just sit in Task Manager as ...

Hi Plerry, thanks for your reply. I have now changed the Task Schedule and am using a Batch File Instead. I seem to be having some kind of error however.

If i run the batch manually it completes with only a a couple errors of failures trying to move locked files (Temporary Word Documents etc ...

Cant seem to get this working properly, maybe RTS does not work how i expected it to, i wanted it to re-compare the directories once an hour and update what had changed, can someone confirm this is possible with RTS?

Damn it never mind i answered my own question... again! You setup the delay in RTS and from there Save As a Real Time Sync File.

I am now in the process of setting this up as a Windows Service that begins on server startup, are there any further details on how to set the time delay when it is being run as a Service?

Never mind i found out and donated. Thanks again for great software!

Good Morning,

First of all i would to say thanks to developers for FFS, i recently migrated to a new server cluster at work and FFS helped massively in migrating 4tb+ of data with ease.

I am now looking to use FFS & RTS more heavily, im trying to decide the best way to to push backups / update the ...