FreeFileSync Forum

I maintain an unofficial repository for Fedora that includes FreeFileSync. This is not the official FreeFileSync release, and it is not the donation version: bgstack15 stackrpms COPR . In case you don't yet know how to use a copr, you can run these from a terminal, one at a time, because they will p...

Rsync is the traditional cli program for synchronizing two directories, but its usage is pretty different from FreeFileSync.

There is zero data loss when transferring a sample data set, say of 15 files totalling larger than 5MB?

My above link for the ffs_openssl.patch is still valid. It points to the master branch of my git repository, and I did just merge in my freefilesync-bump branch, which I just updated for version 11.16. Go check it out! Another caveat: I don't actually use the ssl parts of FreeFileSync, so while it c...

Zenju, would you please add file "zen/stream_buffer.h" to the source zip file? g++-10 -std=c++2a -pipe -DWXINTL_NO_GETTEXT_MACRO -I../.. -I../../zenXml -include "zen/i18n.h" -include "zen/warn_static.h" -Wall -Wfatal-errors -Wmissing-include-dirs -Wswitch-enum -Wcast-al...

Yes, now you should change it back.

Obviously there's a typo in the command! Just remove the character "4" from the end of the binary name. If Zeit doesn't show an erroneous "4" in there, we can inspect the cron entry ourselves. As your user, in a terminal, run: crontab -l That's L as in Lima. That will list the co...

Hm, that really should have worked. Change the redirection commands (1>/dev/null 2>&1) to this: 1>>~/ffs.log 2>&1 And then when the cron entries are triggered again, the log files should go to file ~/ffs.log (that's /home/parkernathan/ffs.log) and we can read that output and see what's going...

Oh, sorry, that shows you the path to the FreeFileSync binary. And it's kind of weird to have two separate binaries running, but it'll be fine to use the x86_64 one as the command for your cron entry. DISPLAY=:0 /opt/FreeFileSync/Bin/FreeFileSync_x86_64 /home/parkernathan/FreeFileSync/WebMate.ffs_ba...

Go ahead and run FreeFileSync however you run it. When it is running, open a terminal and run the following command: ps -eu ${USER} -o pid,command:180 | grep -iE "[f]reefilesync" Paste that whole statement into a terminal, after validating that it won't run anything dangerous! You should a...

Well, you could choose to redirect standard output and standard error to files, to see what messages occur. That would look like: DISPLAY=:0 /home/parkernathan/FreeFileSync/FreeFileSync_x86_64 /home/parkernathan/FreeFileSync/WebMate.ffs_batch 1>>/home/parkernathan/standardoutput.log 2>>/home/parkern...

It appears Zeit controls the user crontab (i.e., the crontab -l when run by your user). You should just remove the "parkernathan" from the beginning of your Zeit entry.

Would you please share a screenshot of your zeit entry for the periodic task, or perhaps share the text loaded into the various fields? In general, a crontab entry should resemble the following, either with or without the username (the first appearance of parkernathan ) depending on which exact cron...

Are you trying to make FreeFileSync in GUI mode regardless if you are logged in or not? Or are you trying to make FreeFileSync run at the time you log in? FreeFileSync is linked to gtk regardless of running headless, so you need an X11 display server of some sort, even if you only use the root :0 th...

There are many questions about this already: I searched for them. These might be useful to you: Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS (no GUI!) and FFS task creation - FreeFileSync Forum Ubuntu FFS with root cron job - FreeFileSync Forum batch job automatic in linux ubuntu - FreeFileSync Forum Tip - alternative f...

The graphical environment you use is a collection of utilities that all work together to present a unified look and feel. Ubuntu by default uses GNOME (which version of Ubuntu determines which version of GNOME). The fact that you see xfdesktop running indicates that parts of Xfce desktop environment...

Xfdesktop is part of Xfce desktop environment and will be there, usually for a logged-in user. The login screen (aka "display manager") such as gdm3 or slim shouldn't have Xfdesktop running. And FreeFileSync wouldn't need Xfdesktop running nor would it start Xfdesktop. What user owns the x...

So far from your cron entry I can see that we need to rearrange some of the contents. Anacron (the default cron implementation for Ubuntu) will want to read the schedule (the "@reboot") part first. So your line should be rearranged this way: @reboot DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/bin/FreeFileSync /home...

Good call! Yes, I was using Debian package names, and I forgot that Ubuntu sometimes changes the names. And I even forgot which gtk major version FreeFileSync uses.

It's very good that you have a .ffs_batch file. As long as you're willing to install a few components (namely, the graphical libraries required), you can technically run FreeFileSync in batch mode, without needing to see any of it. See topic 8404 here. The reason is that FreeFileSync loads the graph...

So, what versions of libglib2 are you guys using? I have found that on Devuan Ceres (Debian Sid/unstable), libglib2 >= 2.68.0 causes my FreeFileSync compilation to fail.

Version 11.14 has switched to use OpenSSL 3.0 which changed a few low-level apis, including making a few of these parameters to be const. Here's my ffs_openssl.patch which really just removes some of the "const" definitions to use it with Devuan Ceres's current openssl 1.1.1l. I don't real...

Alright, so the problem lies within libglib2.0. When I set up my Devuan environment to use a historical snapshot of the Debian archive (see below), I was able to compile this icon_loader.cpp file. Place in /etc/apt/sources.list : deb [check-valid-until=no] https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/...

Hi, I am stuck on a compilation problem. I know this exact error has occurred in newer environments and I thought it was related to gcc 11, but my Devuan Ceres (Debian Sid, or unstable) environment is now throwing this error. The Arch Linux guys have had this exact problem for four months. g++-10 -s...

This is a Linux-specific problem. Sockets and named pipes are special filetypes; they are used by the computer at run-time; they are not standard files that you would expect to store contents in for next time. A socket is used as a communication point between multiple processes, and the same for a n...

Well, that doesn't sound like a GPL'ed software release, then.

gunnarh: If an enterprise wanted to deploy software such as FreeFileSync, there are tools they can use to deploy any arbitrary set of files and registry keys that can be grouped together as "an installation." Most organizations have their own customized way to do it, and it wouldn't involv...

I am a fellow random dude who hangs out on this forum. You can check out https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:bgstack15/freefilesync but I only target Debian Sid/Devuan Ceres. I hope that's what you want! Zenju likes to keep this software incredibly close to upstream compiler and dependency ...

--- 11.9-0/zen/globals.h 2021-05-10 08:10:14.755776667 -0400 +++ 11.9-1/zen/globals.h 2021-05-10 09:17:25.122241641 -0400 @@ -223,7 +223,11 @@ void PodSpinMutex::lock() { while (!tryLock()) +#ifdef __cpp_lib_atomic_wait flag_.wait(true, std::memory_order_relaxed); +#else + ; +#endif } @@ -231,7 +23...

The .run file is a compiled x86_64 iirc, which means that you do not run it with sh or bash or any other shell. You need to mark it as executable (which you have already done) and then run it. The shell in which you run it will only look for the command names you give it, in the directories listed i...