2021/05/17 20:00:58    Failed to establish an SSH session to '192.168.1.10:22': Unable to exchange encryption keys
2021/05/17 20:00:58    Failed to establish an SSH session to '192.168.1.10:22': Unable to exchange encryption keys
2021/05/17 20:00:59    Failed to establish an SSH session to '192.168.1.10:22': Unable to exchange encryption keys
2021/05/17 20:00:59    Failed to establish an SSH session to '192.168.1.10:22': Unable to exchange encryption keys

I am new to Acrosync.  I have a multi-user Windows desktop machine and would like to have a profile run automatically for each user.  This profile would automatically backup their Documents directory to our Synology NAS.

I have a single profile working; however, that profile has a hard-coded username it that causes the profile to not run when executed when the other user logs in...

Any idea?

Thanks,

Win7 64 bit, 8Gb RAM and plenty of HD space. 

Is there a minimum spec I need to consider, please?

Thank you!

How about making an announcement that Acrosync is end-of-life and won't be maintained in the future?

We have a licensed copy of Acrosync on a laptop at a remote biological station. We're using it to retrieve reports from a data collection system. After about a month of collecting reports successfully, Acrosync fails to start with the error message "Could not resolve hostname" and the Acrosync program doesn't start.

Any thoughts?

-Ryan

We use ver1.7 on Windows 10, through command line as a scheduled task. 

We're finding occassionally that when Acrosync crashes with the following message it starts to build a massive .txt file whilst piping stdout output to it. 

The task has finished it task manager, no CMD window open, but the Acrosync process repeatedly keeps writing the following message at the bottom to the .txt file until we kill the process running in Windows Resource Monitor, where you can see Acrosync still running.

.txt file sizes are in the gigabytes in size, one was 7gb until we killed the process. I've tried piping 1>> to one file and 2>> to another, but both error and non-error messages come through stdout and not seperately in stderr.

Any help to filter out or seperate the error messages would be helpful. We tried using | findstr **** >> .txt but doesn't seem to work with the Acrosync output.

Thanks in advance.

gchen, I would be very grateful if you could help.

Thank you. 

The only way to get Acrosync to run a profile on startup is to do it manually. I tried setting the autostart to 1 in the registry, but that did not do it.

I use Auto Upload and want Acrosync to run that profile at startup.

There is no setting in the GUI for Auto starting a profile.

I noticed there is a gray pyramid in the taskbar when it is working. That does not appear until I run the GUI.

How can I get my profile to auto start?

Also it looks like the Acrosync service stays in the paused state. Is this normal operation?

Also, the GUI has no place to enter email info?

By the way, great program. Thanks

I havn't launched acrosync for ages, as it has been running for years fine. Now I needed to update a job and its come up with an error

No Activation code provided. I tried following the other thread of deleting the registry but it does not exist under both local user or local machine.

Why is it coming up with this? and how do I reactivate it with our liscense?

file version on AcroSync is 1.7.600.00

One works perfectly the other doesn't - Both work fine if you manually kick off the sync

On one I looked in the registry and the 'scheduleflags' said 254 and this machine works perfectly

On the other it say 62 and it does work so I changed it to 254 and restarted the service and it works

if however I go to look at the schedule and save it, it puts it back to 62 and then no longer runs as

scheduled - both machines have the same schedule btw

Any ideas ?

Ta

Mal

When it comes to recovery of an individual file or directory (recursive or not), it seems painfully difficult.

I would rather not have to set up a profile in order to download the minuscule portion that I need.

Given that Windows has its own previous versions utility, through VSS/VSC, it should be possible to see previous versions of those files / directories.

Is there a way to link the backup catalog (hard links) taken/stored by Acrosync, to the VSS/VSC service?

This would effectively result in a 'time machine' like behavior in Windows which I think is currently missing.

As a frequent user of rsync on linux, I was glad to see that there's a native rsync client for Windows. That, by itself, is an achievement, and I see that Acrosync has some other interesting features.

However, as a prospective customer, I suggest that your product gratuitously misses the mark by putting up several obstacles:

1. It can't be used like rsync. A large proportion of prospective customers already know how to use rsync, which means, from the command line, using the suite of options that rsyn offers.  If Acrosync was usable from the command line, those customers would be able to adopt and use it immediately. You would hit a sweet spot if customers could quickly acertain that Acrosync would immediately solve their problem, at just the cost of the product, and zero hours of learning and uncertainty of how to make it work for the desired workflow.

Instead, Acrosync goes out of its way to not be operable like rsync, and throw into doubt whether it can be effectively used in a workflow that the rsync-savvy user already knows how to set up.

2. The GUI does not look like it would work for serious use. Apparently every rsync task one has every set up, and might want to use again, continues to appear as a tab.  How is that going to work after configuring 20+ tasks?  There seems to be no mechanism to just maintain a bunch of task specifications in a directory somewhere that one can open as needed. There's no way to copy and paste tasks.

3. The task specifications (profiles) are stored in the registry.  GAAAAA!  A thousand times "No!" on that idea.  (a) I don't every want data like this jamming the registry. (b) I can't do anything (easily) with the registry that I can do trivially easily with files, such as copy them, edit them, version them, use them on another machine etc.

This is a key conceptual problem:  The term "profile" suggests something that users would only ever have a few of, and they rarely change.  But the thing being configured here is not of that type -- it's a task.  A user might have dozens of them, only some of which are long-term, others are ad hoc, some need to be composed by scripts or programs, and so on.  Forcing Acrosync's functions to be available only through the profile GUI severely underestimates the uses that customers could be putting it to (and inclined to pay for.

4. Acrosync has a scheduler, but if I want to schedule work on a Windows machine I already have a way to schedule work, and I want Acrosync to run subsidiary to that, which it is poorly suited to.  Yes, I could set up profiles that have the other scheduler call Acrosync on those profiles. But those profiles then show up in the tabs, inviting disruption when Acrosync is used manually. And the tasks as known to the scheduler don't contain the details of what's copied where (just the name of a task), and nor can they be (easily) composed by programs or scripts.

5. It can't be used like rsync.  Yes, I'm repeating this one, because the complaints of items 2, 3 and 4 are really side effects of the issue that Acrosync can't be entirely driven from the command line (plus additional parameter files, such as include/exclude lists, like rsync).  If it could then there would be no problem with tabs being unable to scale with number of tasks, and task info being inconveniently stored in the registry.

In short, Acrosync perceptively identifies a hole in the market -- an rsync tool for Windows. But then misidentifies what that demand is about. It's not simply "let's have a tool on Windows that can move files around quickly".   It's that we need a tool that fits into the rsync ecosystem with minimum hassle, an ecosystem in which rsync is run from scripts and cron jobs etc.

So, while I applaud your efforts to produce a native rsync client, I can't help feeling you're missing a significant proportion of the demand by omitting the command line interface.

Graham

I want my NetGear ReadyNAS to initiate the rsync process and "pull" the data off my windows machine, rather than the windows machine pushing the data to the NAS.   The NAS is my centralized scheduled backup server.

If I run Acrosync as a service with windows admin privileges will Acrosync:

The messagebox however pops up with the error:

Can't get information about the reparse point C:/users/greg

So... not sure why they don't match and not sure how to make my job run properly

I have another error message that has me stumped:

I have been using Acrosync to instantly sync data from a Windows 2016 server to a local QNAP NAS for a while now - no issues there. The data on the local NAS is then backed up daily to a remote Synology NAS using rsync tools on the NAS boxes.

I have now convinced a client to use the same set-up, but although the above set-up works well,  I would really like to use Acrosync to transfer data to both the NAS devices at the same time. Is this possible? If it is, what steps would I need to have in place for the remote connection to be secure.

I also have another client that wants to sync directly to a remote NAS rather than also have a local NAS to the server.

Any thoughts/help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Daz

This is on v 1.7 Pro (Win 64).

Often when i upload i have this error in debug arosync logs : INFO: skipping non-regular file

When i check the file there is nothing special no read only or system flag, i can read, open, modify the file without problem, and my windows account is the owner of the file. Here is an exemple of file :

I'm running Acrosync or Windows since a while, and recently, I encounter a problem with a large file, bringing the sync process to an error halt.

It is an upload process over SSH to a QNAP NAS, syncing a couple of backups. Incremental snapshots, update in-place and shadow copy are deactivated.

The problem file has a size of 28,982,865,408 bytes. It is a full system backup, i.e. usually only small portions change and are transferred. The file is probably slowly growing over the months.

Since a while, the following error occurs:

2019/09/17 10:23:30 RSYNC_UPLOAD Uploading olk_System.tib
2019/09/17 11:26:15 RSYNC_ERROR rsync: lseek returned -1, not 97239969562624: Invalid argument (22)

It happens always after 1 hour and 3 minutes, and with the same (meaningless) seek address. Before it happens, I observe just the usual behavior on the server, i.e. that the checksums are calculated and that data are transferred for about this hour.

It seems that a seek request beyond of the file is issued, judging from the strange number.

Question: is it a problem created by Acrosync, or does is come from elsewhere, and if so, from where?

By coincidence, the problem occured when I updated from build 600 to 611, but I reverted to 600 for testing, and the problem persists.

Thanks for any help!

I transfer huge files & small files at full Gigabit speed.  No, I do not use SSH, internal network behind a firewall PC. 

Yes, you have to have a Gigabit network for it to work this fast....

I've been using Acrosync on a Win10 OS to backup ASCII log files to an online server and suddenly came across an error which wouldn't allow me to start Acrosync.

Whenever I start the software, a pop-up appears saying Couldn't connect to server and I can only press OK and nothing else happens.

I've tried reinstalling the software and installing the latest version of Acrosync.

It has been running for years without issues until today.

Anyone have any ideas I can try to get it working again?

i configured the E-Mail Settings. Run a successfull test but i dont get the mail into my inbox.

Any Solutions?

Thanks

Is there a way to enter a user ID /password from rsyncd.conf, in addition to the user ID and password for the ssh connection?

We already use Acrosync, and are exploring another use case for it. This is one of the requirements we have.

Many thanks.

I believe the solution would be to implement an optional delay in the Auto Upload. During that delay period, Acrosync would continue monitoring the directory and wait to see if files are still being written or not. Each time it sees additional files being written, it would reset the delay period. If the delay period expires with no additional activity, then Acrosync would start uploading.

I'm still not getting anywhere on this topic:

Since the logfile doesn't contain any indication of what AcroSync is doing at the moment (a running job will only show up once a file has _finished_ transferring, not when a profile has _started_ execution), I used to run the AcroSync executable in parallel to the service in a user session (as a user, not as Admin). This way, I was at least able to see the rotating task icon and deduce that "something" must be going on.

However, this apparently causes logfiles to not being written correctly: The logfile on disk doesn't change, and the log window on the client (which had been running minimized-to-tray at the time) shows "access denied" messages for the logfile. Log rotation also didn't happen (error in the log window).

Can you please do something about this? As it stands now, neither the logfile (no progress indication) nor the GUI-executable (blocks writes to logfile from the service) can be used to monitor AcroSync execution.

Regards