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Does this mean native file system, and MTP will get user-configurable timeouts? Or they just have no timeout now?

It's a shame to have to resort to hacks like that when the FolderAccessTimeout option worked perfectly.

I had also considered storing the ffs_batch file in the backup folder on the NAS so when the job started it would have to spin that stuff up to read the file.

Any idea why FolderAccessTimeout ...

Like schedule a separate compare before the sync?

Zenju?

How about if it just started back over from scratch when it got an error like:

[8:02:30 PM] Serious Error: Target folder "\\Moo\Backup\Meph Backup" is already existing, but was not available during folder comparison.

?

So I used the retry option instead and it worked on the timeout error for waiting on the disks to spin up.

One big problem I see with this though is not only will it retry on the errors for the discs spinning up but it will also retry now on any files that it tries to copy that error even though I ...

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|10/20/2019 [8:00:01 PM] | Master Backup
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| Completed with errors
| Errors: 2
| Items processed: 0 (0 bytes)
| Items remaining: 658,663 (782 GB)
| Total time: 00:02:28
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[8:00:02 PM] Info: Using non-default global ...

I just recently updated FFS after it being out of date for a while. Tonight when my batch backup ran it failed due to not being able to reach the backup folders. I have kind of a slow NAS that sometimes takes a bit to spinup the disks. In the past I had fixed it with adjusting FolderAccessTimeout ...