I've been testing FFS for a few months now, and have been so impressed that I paid for several donation copies. Thanks for good, solid software that "just works"!
I'm doing 2-way sync to an offsite backup storage server and plan to leverage DFS for redundancy between the primary and backup pools (the backup storage is on the same domain and provides full file service as well). My sync job runs out of Task Scheduler on Windows Server 2016.
To help protect against ransomware, I have unchecked "run minimized", "ignore errors" and selected "show error messages", in the hope that a large ransomware infection would trigger the "Too many files have changed" warning and FFS would wait at a warning prompt (and will have emailed me so I'm aware) before replicating the scrambled files to the backup location. I do, though, also have versioning set up on the primary server.
A couple questions and a feature request:
- Do error emails go out before the error popup happens, in other words would I get an email alert to check the server (and see the error popup) at that point? Given that FFS is running out of task manager, would the error popup show on an administrator (which FFS is running as) login session?
- Does this make sense as a way to leverage FFS to help guard against ransomware?
- For the feature request: add a fourth email option to send email on warnings, errors, or # of files synced > 0
Ransomware protection: a couple questions and a feature request
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I tested a bit with the "run minimized" and "ignore errors" options unchecked, but unfortunately the process seems to hang in the background (possibly waiting for some sort of input). I had to re-enable these for it to sync normally.
Is there a way to access the program output window/popups while running FFS from task scheduler?
Also, my question about whether emails go out before the popup window still stands (though depending on why my tests hung, that may be the answer - but not the answer I was hoping for).
Thank you!
Is there a way to access the program output window/popups while running FFS from task scheduler?
Also, my question about whether emails go out before the popup window still stands (though depending on why my tests hung, that may be the answer - but not the answer I was hoping for).
Thank you!
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oh, I love DFS. I really need to find some good bloggers on the topic of DFS. it works FLAWLESSLY for many things I want to do:
- have a S:\Clients directory
- have a S:\Personal directory
- have a S:\Code directory
seamlessly sync between all my desktops without fail. DFS has worked REALLY good for me in a couple of situations, but once it starts to detect a bunch of conflicts? It seems like it just pukes and can't synch.
I'm going to go try to implement that same design with FFS. Thanks folks
- have a S:\Clients directory
- have a S:\Personal directory
- have a S:\Code directory
seamlessly sync between all my desktops without fail. DFS has worked REALLY good for me in a couple of situations, but once it starts to detect a bunch of conflicts? It seems like it just pukes and can't synch.
I'm going to go try to implement that same design with FFS. Thanks folks
