[SOLVED] RealTimeSync Command Line Syntax for Linux

[Exomancer]

Hi ...

Your RealTimeSync Manual example is in Windows syntax. Being a mouse monkey I'm not a big terminal user so I'm getting hung up on how to write the command to run the RealTimeSync job. I use Ubuntu linux and I know how to get RealTimeSync to start up automatically by adding it to my Startup Applications. However, I can't figure out how to tell it what job to do. tried this:

/home/username/location of FreeFileSync/RealTimeSync '/home/username/location of filename.ffs_batch'


I used ' to separate the command from the application startup like you did in windows (I think I say it somewhere) ... or is this redundant?

Would just:

/home/username/location of filename.ffs_batch


work? After all, I already started RealTimeSync. All I should need to do is tell it which batch file to run.

I am also monitoring both the main drive and the target drive. I believe that's correct right?

Thanks.

[Exomancer]

This has been answered via opening the batch file. I thought I had to enter all this by hand. You guys really need to beef up your documentation.

For anyone interested the Linux syntax is:

"/home/username/location_of_FreeFileSync/RealTimeSync" "/home/username/location_of_batch_file/filename.ffs_batch"


[LapisLazuli]

Hi,

I'm having the same issue, but the hint above is not working for me. In Ubuntu, I use the "Application at startup" GUI Application, and add an entry with the following line (the .ffs_batch being at the root of disk 'mydisk') :

/usr/bin/RealtimeSync /media/myusername/mydisk/myffsfile.ffs_batch


or, as suggested above :

"/usr/bin/RealtimeSync" "/media/myusername/mydisk/myffsfile.ffs_batch"


In both cases, in webmin, the following entry is displayed in System/Running processes :

  3257myuser    23:11    /usr/bin/RealtimeSync /media/myusername/mydisk/myffsfile.ffs_batch


This suggests the batch is running correctly.

The batch files is created from a manual one. Manually, it correctly backs one disk up to another. So I would expect that, similarly, after running the batch, whenever a change is made on disk1, it is mirrored to disk2. But this does not happen, disk 2 remains unchanged.

Any hint ?

Thanks and best regards.