RTS - First Time Mac Setup

[Klaatu]

I'm new to RTS, and I'm not exactly a brilliant "nerd." (:-)

I have an external media drive and I want to back up and synchronize to another external drive (Mac Mini, Sequoia).

I don't understand how to set up the Configuration (I attached what I've done, but it doesn't work). I don't know anything about FF. Sorry.

Thank you for helping.

[Plerry]

> I'm not exactly a brilliant "nerd."
So, you are a non-brilliant "nerd"? (-;

> I don't know anything about FF. Sorry.
Before starting with RTS, you should have a developed and verified a properly working FreeFileSync (FFS) sync configuration in the FFS GUI.
Assuming you have such a sync configuration, in the FFS GUI you should save that sync configuration as a batch job (the black floppy-disk icon with the ">_" square, or via File / Save as batch job). Save this *.ffs_batch file under a self selected name in a self selected location.
Also make sure to select the proper options when saving your batch job, as described here.

Then we can turn to RTS.
Start by consulting the RTS manual page
The simplest is to open the RTS GUI and drag/drop the *.ffs_batch file you just created into the RTS GUI window. This should not only enter your two locations to be monitored for changes (/Volumes/Mediadrive and /Volumes/BackUpDrive) but also enter the correct command line, similar to the one shown in the RTS manual page. This command will/should invoke an instance of FFS, telling FFS to run the sync configuration you saved as a *.ffs_batch file.

[Klaatu]

Thank you very much. If this proves to be over my head, I'll use FreeFileSync since my Media Drive does not have files added or deleted that often.