RealTimeSync and Windows Task Scheduling at system start

[CraigG58]

I’m having a problem with keeping RealTimeSync running following system start. It does indeed successfully run as configured in the scheduler when Windows boots and properly backs up the directories it’s watching for changes, but then quits. In my case, I want to keep it running at all times.

I’m sure this is probably something dumb that I’m missing, so I’ve attached images of all tabs within properties for the task. Any help with things I can check that may be misconfigured would be much appreciated!

[xCSxXenon]

Your Task is not running RTS at all. When you run a FFS config, all it is ever going to do is run once and that's it. You need to configure RTS, save the configuration, and then have the Task run RTS with that saved configuration passed as the parameter.

[Plerry]

See https://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic=realtimesync and https://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic=rts-as-service

[CraigG58]

See https://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic=realtimesync and https://freefilesync.org/manual.php?topic=rts-as-service

Thank you both for your responses, you guys have been a great help and I certainly appreciate it!

I totally missed the “RTS: Run as Service” button which brings up Plerry’s second URL. Although I do realize using the Windows Task Scheduler allows for much more flexibility, I wound up using the startup via shortcut method since it’s simple and does exactly what I wanted in the first place.

Maybe a bit off topic, but do you know if running both RTS and the Google Drive daemon at the same time would create any conflicts? Some files I’d like automatically uploaded to the cloud and saved on my external hdisk used by RTS, and others stored in only one place or the other. So far, there doesn’t seem to be any issues with doing that, but I thought I’d ask while I was at it.