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

But horrified to discover not everything is getting backed up.

Using an exif extension on iPhone, I see that the images in camera roll getting ignored don't conform to IMG_dddd.{jpg|png|gif|dng|mov}

For instance, IMG_dddd_polarr.jpg [images save-copied by the Polarr app]

or _FXDDDDDDD.jpg image saved from email, or {UUID}.jpg images saved from tweetbot

etc

WTH?  Save _everything in camera roll_.  period.  Everything

What's going on?

I don't use any iCloud, so that's not it.  This is on 12.1.4 with iPhoneSE, so no HEIC

Deleting the .photobackup file on the server does not fix this

Please fix!  The app is otherwise fantastic.

Willing to do TestFlight tests if this helps.

[and requiring users to create an account in order to report a bug is bad form, you are increasing the burden on those who would otherwise try to help you -- create account, verify email, blahblahblah - who is the customer here anyway?]

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.

after syncing a few files acrosync always stops with "unable to send data over the ssh channel"

I use the newest Version between MacOS Mojave und Ubuntu 18.04.

Any ideas ?

Best regards

Stefan

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

Thank you. 

When trying to run PhotoBackup, I get the following error:

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 was trialing the software and downloaded it on the 24th January 2021.

I installed the Acrosync software, and started to use it.

It stalled, so I chose to restart the software, but needed to restart the entire machine.

Now it is asking me for a license code.

I quite like it, but I am not finished with my evaluation.

Could I please get my other 12 days? Thanks in advance :)

It's great that Acrosync pops up a dialog when it detects a changed host key, and logs a warning when a user a doesn't accept the new host, but could it also ...

* log the current server SSH hash every time it makes a connection (for tracking down when a host changed), and ...

* log (ideally in red) that a change in host key has been detected?

Many thanks,

Sean.

P.s. I'm running Acrosync on Windows, but I suspect this feature would be useful on all platforms.

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

I have been using Acrosync successfully for years in order to mirror large directories of documents which are almost static (e.g. collections of scientific papers), from my main computers to my iOS devices. I have noticed time and again that the existence of a broken symlink in the source repository (most often a Linux remote server) would halt the execution of Acrosync on the iOS device with the message "symlink has no referent" (followed by the name of the broken symlink in the source directory). 

This behaviour is different from the standard rsync tool: rsync would seamlessy synchronize broken symlinks from source to target, by default.

Today I am trying to synchronize a large directory of "current work" files, where broken symlinks have a useful meaning. I find myself stuck.

I use symlinks on my Unix machines to avoid the useless replication of data across different directories. For example, large data or postscript/PDF files in one directory could be symlinked to other directories needing the same file locally. Every now and then, in order to minimize storage occupancy, I compress a whole subdirectory to a .zip file and then remove the subdirectory, e.g. whenever I know I won't need that subdirectory very often. Whenever the removed subdirectory contains an original file that was symlinked elsewhere, this removal creates broken symlinks here and there. If, at some point, I need the original reference of the broken symlink, I simply look up the filename it used to point to, I follow its path, I find the compressed archive that holds that file, I decompress it, and can work on it again. Thus, for me, the existence of broken symlinks is a necessary trace to a compressed file which needs to be temporarily decompressed (and then perhaps removed again).

The behaviour of Acrosync on broken symlinks (abort its run) means I either refrain from using it, or I must delete all the broken symlinks in my directory, which would mean I would no longer be able to use whole subdirectories, because I would no longer know where the missing files can be found. 

Is there any chance you could change (perhaps optionally?) the behaviour of Acrosync in presence of broken symlinks? I can envisage three options:

- just skip over the broken symlink without aborting (probably the easiest option)

- copy the symlink to the iOS device "as is" (I am assuming that the iOS filesystem has an idea of "symlinks")

- otherwise, create a small text file on the iOS device holding the name of the original file the source symlink points to.

Other than that, I'm grateful for this very useful tool!

Please let me know, and thanks for your work and your attention.

Yours,

Leo Liberti

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.

I can see in the logs that it says "delete during" -- but I'd like to have it delete after a delay. I believe that's part of the rsync basic functionality -- but is there a way to customise how Acrosync does its delete -- rather than just ON/OFF?

Thanks!

//Andrew  

The subject line says it all -- standard rsyn can do this.

My use case would be:

I am syncing to an SVN subdir (a dir that had no .svn in it).

From time to time I would like to 'svn commit'. Therefore no danger lurking here...

Is there any way to achieve this?

Best,

Enver

When I open the app and click the '>' next to Computers, the app loads for a while, and then I get the error message "Search failure".

I have two linux boxes currently online on my network, so I would expect to see one of those computers showing up.

Both Linux computers are running Linux Mint.. Do I need to enable anything on the desktop computers to make it work?

They both have rsync already.

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