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Where is the profiles configuration stored?

TorstenC
edited July 2018 in General Discussion
BTW: My trial period just has started and rsync works with my Synology NAS. :)

My Question: Where are the profile configurations saved? Is there a file (Text, XML, ...)?

There are two reasons why I am asking:
  1. I could use a better editor for file and directory inclusion/exclusion and profile management,
    e.g. to use several combinations of include and exclude rules in different profiles.
  2. I can backup and restore all my profile configurations.

Comments

  • gchen
    They are saved under HKCU/Software/Acrosync/AcrosyncClient/Profile*.  If you installed Acrosync for all users then the registry path is under HKLM rather than HKCU.
  • TorstenC
    edited July 2018
    Thank you very much! :)
    Please don't ask, why I did not find it on my own: I did not expand the folder Acrosync. :(

    I now want to try several combinations of include and exclude rules in different profiles, because some ExcludePatterns only make sense in combination with specific IncludePatterns.

    (1) Can I try to use the same RemoteDir in more than one profile?

    Or is that the way to muddle up everything?

    (2) Another topic (I may start a new thread, if this is a new question):

    I get one folder per hour, using Auto Upload an incremental snapshots,
    even if there is no change!

    Each folder contains 1900 files and 1600 sub-directories.

    Can this be configured differently?

    The log says:
        2018/07/27 03:55:30    Uploaded C:/: uploaded 1 file
        2018/07/27 04:15:09    Uploaded C:/: up to date
        2018/07/27 04:55:30    Uploaded C:/: up to date
        2018/07/27 05:15:09    Uploaded C:/: up to date
        2018/07/27 05:55:30    Uploaded C:/: up to date
        2018/07/27 06:15:09    Uploaded C:/: up to date
        2018/07/27 06:55:30    Uploaded C:/: up to date
        2018/07/27 07:15:09    Uploaded C:/: up to date
        2018/07/27 07:55:30    Uploaded C:/: up to date
        2018/07/27 08:15:09    Uploaded C:/: up to date
        2018/07/27 08:55:30    Uploaded C:/: up to date
        2018/07/27 09:15:10    Uploaded C:/: up to date
        2018/07/27 09:55:30    Uploaded C:/: up to date
        2018/07/27 10:15:10    Uploaded C:/: up to date
        2018/07/27 10:55:30    Uploaded C:/: up to date
        2018/07/27 11:15:10    Uploaded C:/: up to date

  • gchen
    edited August 2018
    (1) Yes, you can use the same RemoteDir in different profiles.

    (2) This is how incremental snapshots work.  Each snapshot appears to be an independent directory but unchanged files are shared by hardlinks.
  • TorstenC
    edited August 2018
    Thank you. :) My trial edition expires in 6 days.

    (2) I am only worried about the 1900 + 1600 = 3500 hardlinks. In future it will be 100 thousand!

     

    I found an answer here: https://serverfault.com/a/211083

    Rsync doesn't have an algorithm that works like: "Only if files have the same length, compare by hash."


    Is this right, or did I miss something?

     

    Only if I quit Acrosync also in the SysTray, I could avoid these unnecessary hardlinks so far.

     

    (3, new) Only to the directory "latest" I have no read-access.

    I Only have access to all snapshots.

     

    Is this the expected behaviour? Or should I check the settings on my NAS?

     

    (4, new) I changed my options (Exclude patterns and Propagate deletion).

    In my case, these changes were at first not recognised by the task in the SysTray.

    BTW: I changed the optiond in the GUI, not directly in the regisrty.

     

    Only after quit and restart ("Acrosync for windows 1.7 build 600 initialized" in the log), the changes were are recogized.


    Is this the expected behaviour?

  • TorstenC
    edited August 2018
    PS: (3) Sorry. This is a problem with Synology HyperBackup. It does not accept hardlinks as Backup source.
    The question (3) has become obsolete.
  • gchen
    (2) Again, this is how incremental snapshots work.  If you don't want this then just deselect the incremental snapshots checkbox.

    (3) "latest" is just a symlink to the latest snapshot directory.  You should have access to the latest snapshot directory.

    (4).  The options will be saved to the registry when you click the start button.
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