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1. SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 101 Login username and password SMTP login username and password only needed when a server requires authentication Connection security e Connection security None email messages are sent as plain text without any encryption e Connection security SSL sometimes called SSL TLS communication with SMTP server is encrypted e Connection security STARTTLS communication with SMTP server is encrypted Please consult your network admin for correct option If you know what SMTP port is used for sending emails this will hint what security settings should be selected If port 25 is used select None If port 465 is used select SSL If port 587 is used select STARTTLS For example with Gmail you can send email with two different sets of settings e SMTP host address smtp gmail com Port 465 Connection security SSL e SMTP host address smtp gmail com Port 587 Connection security STARTTLS In order to use Gmail as your SMTP server you need to check Use authentication check box and enter your google account username and password From email address Enter valid email address This appears in the sender field of the email message that you receive You can add the display name Sync Task like this Sync Task lt your email company com gt where Sync Task is shown as the sender in your email client Outlook Thunderbird etc instead of the actual emai
2. SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 51 NOTE You can use date variables in this parameter Command line parameter T Target folder name This parameter overrides Edit Task gt Sync tab gt Target folder field value Quotes around the folder name are required T htdocs Remote target folder name Use quotes T C Backup TODAY mm dd yyyy Local target folder name You can use date variables here Command line parameter R Recursive This parameter overrides Edit Task gt Options tab gt Include subfolders recursively check box value R Recursive Recurse subfolders R 1 Recurse subfolders alternative syntax R NotRecursive Do not recurse subfolders R 0 Do not recurse subfolders alternative syntax Command line parameter L SymLinks This parameter overrides Edit Task gt Options tab gt Include symbolic links check box value L Yes Process symbolic links L 1 Process symbolic links alternative syntax L No Skip symbolic links L 0 Skip symbolic links alternative syntax Command line parameter X Deletion options This parameter overrides Edit Task gt Options tab gt deletion options X None Turn all deletion options off X 0 Turn all deletion options off alternative syntax X DelExtra Edit Task gt Options tab gt One way sync delete extra files folders on target L DelAfterTransfer Edit Task gt Options tab gt One way sync delete source files
3. SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 26 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP 4 3 5 r 2 New Task Options Include Exclude Comparison Conflicts Logs Email Verification Syne Direction One way syne transfer new and changed files from source to target Two way sync transfer new and changed files in both directions Source Target Local or Network Folder X gt FTP FTPS or SFTP Server X Local or Network Folder FTP Server Server Folder Name ver C WebRoot a MyWebServer Server Folder httpdocs Enter target folder onthe server Date variables Date variables Save As ste Task file is saved to Save Task to Folder D sync Help T asks this folder This is Save Task As filename without path same folder as shown Enter filename Upload WebSite in the main window for the new task Description Upload all web site files to production server i All required fields are filled in Click Save button to save the task Show in yellow Cancel Help Click Save button to save task We have now entered all the basic settings for the sync task To save it we need to give it a descriptive filename Do not enter a path as the task is saved to the same folder that was active when we opened this window You cannot change the folder here but you can later copy rename and move task files with Windows Explorer just as with any text file
4. Authentication method for SFTP logins Public Key SFTP public private key authentication Private key file C ProgramData Sync SSH2 Linu es Show Passphrase Load private key Host key fingerprint V Accept connection only if host key fingerpint matches this 98 22 e3 04 0f 92 55 1 b 68 9e 6d b8 7b b5 7e 32 l Cancel Il Help LS 2 6 Save changes Now you can test this setting by running Sync Preview again Log pane looks like this Connecting to 192 168 100 46 22 Server host key fingerprint 98 22 e3 04 0f 92 55 1 b 68 9e 6d b8 7b b5 7e 32 Saved host key fingerprint 98 22 e3 04 0f 92 55 1b 68 9e 6d b8 7b b5 7e 32 Fingerprint comparison OK About host key fingerprint changes The fingerprint is based on the Host s Public key usually based on etc ssh ssh_host_rsa_key pub If the fingerprint changes the machine you are connecting to has changed their public key This may not be a bad thing happens for example when re installing ssh but it could also indicate that you are connecting to a different machine at the same domain IP happens when you are connecting through something like load balancer or that you are being targeted with a man in the middle attack where the attacker is intercepting rerouting your ssh connection to connect to a different host which could be snooping your data So if you get warned of a changed fingerprint we cautious and double check t
5. PECHNOLCOGULT ES TING BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP User Manual SiteDesigner Technologies Inc BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP SiteDesigner Technologies Inc All rights reserved No parts of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any means graphic electronic or mechanical including photocopying recording taping or information storage and retrieval systems without the written permission of the publisher Products that are referred to in this document may be either trademarks and or registered trademarks of the respective owners The publisher and the author make no claim to these trademarks While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this document the publisher and the author assume no responsibility for errors or omissions or for damages resulting from the use of information contained in this document or from the use of programs and source code that may accompany it In no event shall the publisher and the author be liable for any loss of profit or any other commercial damage caused or alleged to have been caused directly or indirectly by this document Contents l Table of Contents Part I Part Il Part Ill a fF Q N a Part IV 2 Getting started in 5 minutes ns 3 Step by stepinstructions es Part V AN OO a FWD a O Foreword Introducing BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP BatchSync vs InstantSync System Requirements Installation and Uninstallation
6. rm Task Scheduler gt File Action View Help e 2040 Task Scheduler ene RS Status Triggers Actions La Task Scheduler Library Task Scheduler Library a HP Health C Ready At9 07 every Wednesday Create Basic Task Import Task E Display All Running Tasks General Triggers Actions Conditions l Set New Folder Name HP Health Check z View gt Author SYSTEM IQ Refresh inti i Help Description Selected Item a D gt Run i i m End Security options Disable When running the task use the following user HI t Export m a Step 3 Enter task name SiteDesigner Technologies Inc BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP Give it a descriptive name In this example we use the name Upload Web Site Also select the Run whether user is logged on or not option 2 Create Task General Triggers Actions Conditions Settings Name Upload Web Site Author Kannettava mli Ip escription Security options When running the task use the following user account Kannettava mli Change User or Group Run only when user is logged on Run whether user is logged on or not Do not store password The task will only have access to local computer resources F Run with highest privileges E Hidden Configure for Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 gt
7. System Requirement ins Installation 555355 iaaa a sanaaa eaaa diaaa aaaeaii Upgrading from 2 X un ee ee ee seen eeeeaeseee esse seeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Upgrading from 3 X iis cc ccnteccesscecececcstaeceeesceeevecedsecnserceenwccnvecceeesceess Uninstalationm p e seeen aaa aa ae eaa aaao hena aaaea a anhe EEEn Getting Started OVEFVIBW AEN E E A E E E hacacke Creating a new SYNC task s n nsnsnnnnsnsnnnnnnnnnnnnsnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn ennnen Start Task Ed TOI sisescecs costes cesecacccdeccnccpacesnctectanveasccad ccatucscct ctetaceseecanh evennvaeccnteneen Task Editor US r intertace nets rs uaan a aeaa anaiei Entering task parameters s sneunoonernnnnnnnnnnnnnnennnnnnnnnenneunennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn ennnen Previewing task results ne asseeie nennee Editing a task adding filters nn Previewing again to check the results ccsccseceseseeeseeseeeseeeseerseesseeseenenens Running the task in the Task Editor cesssessesseeseeesseeseeeseeeseenseesseteneeseets Viewing history 109 2 2255245uruu lei ie he teieassaennen Reference Manual Sync vs Copy vs Move files 2 2 ccceceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseees Scheduling a task 8 Command line batch files and scheduling Sync exe command line parameters ccs seceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeees Windows Event Log ss ssnsenrennse Server folders i 22 ices iccdacakadiinntdaacaneccadea
8. then You can manually delete any of the log files when you feel like they need to be deleted Macros in log filenames Log filenames can contain macros The macros start with the sign and they are evaluated i e converted to values when sync task is run BatchSync recognizes the following macros DAY Evaluates to current day 1 31 MONTH Evaluates to current month 1 12 YEAR Evaluates to current year 2014 2099 DATE Format Evaluates to custom date and time format more below FILENAME Task filename without STF extension The DATE Format macro is very versatile and you can use it to create dates and times in a variety of formats The following table shows how the Format string can be used to create custom date strings SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 62 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP Format Description Time separator In some locales other characters may be used to represent the time separator The time separator separates hours minutes and seconds when time values are formatted The actual character used as the time separator in formatted output is determined by your system settings Date separator In some locales other characters may be used to represent the date separator The date separator separates the day month and year when date values are formatted The actual character used as the date sepa
9. BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP 5 17 5 File attributes When checked the file s attributes must contain all the selected attributes but it can also have other extra attributes So if the Read Only check box is selected a file that has the Archive and Read Only attributes set will be included in the sync Comparison tab Use SyncDB SyncDB is a special tracking file that records the file size and date for all files in the sync On the next run this recorded info is compared to the present size and date values If the values are different then a file has changed since the last sync and will be transferred Read more here Only reset SyncDB file on the next sync run do not transfer any files When running a sync first time between two folders where folders are already in sync possibly all files are flagged for transfer This is because file sizes and or dates are different in the source and target and there is no SyncDB yet available to assist in the file comparison This is a problem if there are gigabytes of data to transfer When this option is checked software rebuilds the SyncDB tracking file by scanning through all files on source and target All files found on both sides are considered being in sync and are not transferred after this reset This reset sets a starting point for tracking changes to the files and only changes occurring after this reset will be considered for transfer This check box clears itself automatically af
10. For example several languages use the character to represent the characters a and e when they appear together The matching recognizes that the single special character and the two individual characters are equivalent When a language that uses a special character is specified in the system locale settings an occurrence of the single special character in either pattern or file folder name matches the equivalent 2 character sequence in the other string Similarly a single special character in a pattern enclosed in brackets by itself in a list or in a range matches the equivalent 2 character sequence in a file folder name Pattern matching samples In addition to patterns you can also enter multiple filters by separating them with semicolons Notice that when entering multiple filters do not leave ANY extra spaces between filters So when you want to match for gif and jpg files the correct way to enter the filter is SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 65 e gif jpg And the incorrect way to enter it is e gif jpg Examples of pattern matching and multiple filters Filter Matches log All filenames that have the log extension htm Filenames with extensions like htm html shtml jpg jpeg gif png All files with jpg jpeg gif png extensions index Files starting with index like index htm index html index txt index php KM
11. p html gt logsht le 2010_12_01 html gt logsiit Add Folder to Exclude Filter html 2010_12_02 htmi gt logsint Add Folder to Exclude Filter D webroot html pee D A Add Folder to Exclude Filter Upload webroot htmi 201012 02109 gt logs 2l CAML Tes A I php N gt pe Collapse All customer php phpicu D email php gt php ern Expand All ie search php gt php search php File does not exist P pics gt pics Folder does not exist p customer gt pics customer Folder does not exist E customer1 jpg gt pics customer customer1 jpg File does not exist E customer2 jpg gt pics customer customer2 jpg File does not exist general gt picsigeneral Folder does not exist cart git gt picsigeneralicart gif File does not exist sm minus gif gt pics generaliminus git File does not exist 5 plus gif gt pics general plus gif File does not exist E my system gt pics system Folder does not exist gt admin jpg gt pics system admin jpg File does not exist Euser jpg 2 pics system user jpg File does not exist boxshot jpg gt pics boxshot jpg File does not exist logo gif gt picslogo gif File does not exist main jpg gt pics main jpg File does not exist Log Threads Sync Preview completed successfully 25 files 3 80 MB to transfer and LL other operations to perform 69 3 Now Edit Task window opens You need to turn on Include Folders filtering by checking the Folder name matche
12. SalesData zip Readme txt SalesByArea SalesNY doc SalesByArea SalesCA doc Source files are moved to archive folder only if transfer is 100 successful So if the file transfer is cut in the middle and file is not transferred in full file is not moved but it says on the original source folder Each source file is moved right after successful transfer so if sync run is interrupted in the middle by any reason all files that were already moved to archive folder were also already fully transferred SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 39 5 2 Scheduling a task Notice Task scheduling is ONLY available in the BatchSync product It is not possible to schedule tasks with InstantSync BatchSync uses the Windows Task Scheduler to run tasks at regular intervals The Windows Task Scheduler is installed on all Windows Server 2012 2008 and 2003 Windows 8 x 7 Vista XP and Windows 2000 platforms Here are the steps to schedule a sync task with the Windows Task Scheduler Windows 8 x 7 Vista and Server 2012 and 2008 Step 1 Start Windows Task Scheduler Click Start menu gt All Programs gt Accessories gt System Tools gt Task Scheduler This launches the scheduler program You can also simply click the Start menu and type Task Scheduler into the search field Step 2 Create a new task Click the Task Scheduler Library on the left and then Create Task on the right
13. Samples of filter use You can find samples about filtering here e Include folders filter sample e Exclude files and folders filter sample Pattern matching wildcard characters You can use pattern matching to create include and exclude filters that match multiple file or folder names Built in pattern matching provides a versatile tool for file and folder name matching The pattern matching feature allows you to use wildcard characters character lists or character ranges in any combination to match file and folder names The pattern matching syntax resembles the regular expressions used on many systems The following table shows the characters allowed in a pattern and what they match SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 64 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP Characters in pattern Matches in file or folder name Any single character i Zero or more characters Any single digit 0 9 charlist Any single character in charlist charlist Any single character not in charlist A group of one or more characters charlist enclosed in brackets can be used to match any single character in a file folder name and can include almost any character code including digits Note To match the special characters left bracket question mark number sign and asterisk enclose them in brackets The right bracket can t be used within a group to match itself but it can
14. The STF extension is appended automatically After entering the filename close this window by clicking the Save button Next Step Previewing the task results Previewing task results We saved our new task with the Upload WebSite Stf filename This new task is listed in the main window as an icon along with other tasks in the same folder To verify that the server connect parameters and folder names were entered correctly and that the connection to the server works as intended it s best to run Sync Preview To run Sync Preview select a task icon in the main window and click the Preview button SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Getting Started 27 BatchSync Secure Task Editor Task w New Wizard Edit Duplicate Delete Help Test Development R Preview Sync View Tools Schedule Folder D sync Help Tasks A Syne Preview Show on des stf server stf SSH2 stf Production server stf Picture sync stf amp Sync NY office stf Intranet Sync stf amp Sync IL office stf Clic Preview button to start Backup docs Backup web Dev source to Download log files stf gt ODA Logs Options Select Folder _ Field Workers stf o t amp SSH2 update stf Sync CA office stf 7 Here is the new task we just created To run preview select it and click Icons List Details Upload WebSite stf CAP N
15. be used outside a group as an individual character By using a hyphen to separate the upper and lower bounds of the range charlist can specify a range of characters For example A Z results in a match if the corresponding character position in the file folder name contains any uppercase letters in the range A Z Multiple ranges are included within the brackets without delimiters The meaning of a specified range depends on the character ordering valid at the system A E matches A a A a B b E e The range does not match E or because accented characters fall after unaccented characters in the sort order Other important rules for pattern matching include the following e An exclamation point at the beginning of charlist means that a match is made if any character except the characters in charlist is found in a file folder name When used outside brackets the exclamation point matches itself e A hyphen can appear either at the beginning after an exclamation point if one is used or at the end of charlist to match itself In any other location the hyphen is used to identify a range of characters e When a range of characters is specified they must appear in ascending sort order from lowest to highest A Z is a valid pattern but Z A is not e The character sequence is considered a zero length string In some languages there are special characters in the alphabet that represent two separate characters
16. choose About from the Help menu e f a dialog box with an error message was displayed please include the full text of the dialog box including the text in the title bar Note You can press F1 at any time while running the software for context sensitive help Please send the above information to support sitedesigner com for technical support 6 3 License Agreement BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT IMPORTANT READ CAREFULLY This End User License Agreement EULA is a legal agreement between you either an individual or a single entity and SiteDesigner Technologies Inc SiteDesigner for the SiteDesigner software product identified above which includes computer software and may include associated media printed materials online or electronic documentation and Internet based services Software An amendment or addendum to this EULA may accompany the Software YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS Terms OF THIS EULA BY INSTALLING COPYING OR OTHERWISE USING THE SOFTWARE IF YOU DO NOT AGREE DO NOT INSTALL COPY OR SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 122 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP USE THE SOFTWARE EVALUATIONLICENSE An Evaluation License is applicable when you download an evaluation version of the Software or you are granted a time limited license by SiteDesigner or its resellers for evaluation purposes The Software is licensed to you for the sole purpose of evaluati
17. userxy2 Password nial F Optional Specify Server Port 21 E Use IPv6 You can test this software by connecting a public ftp server For example try host address ftp kemel org username anonymous and password me test com all this without quotation marks This creates a connection to the public Kernel org server that allows you to download files Uploading files to this server is not possible Se Ge Ge Co F Sync Task Wizard m CD Step 6 Task wizard will now make a connection to the server When you are connected simply click the Next button Step 7 Select the target folder on the server by double clicking the folder name After double clicking the selected folder name is show at the top Click the Next button SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Getting Started 19 K CE O O OO O Select server folder by double clicking the folder name Currently selected folder httpdocs New Folder Name Size Date Modified 9 0 _notes 0 26 3 2014 9 36 dnl O 26 3 2014 10 25 2 Thumbs db 7168 15 4 2011 15 38 amp company htm 9308 11 2 2014 2 00 contact htm 7849 11 2 2014 2 00 contact_suppart htm 11299 11 2 2014 2 00 le download htm 12097 11 2 2014 2 00 e download_3dftp htm 6634 11 2 2014 2 00 le download_batchsyncftp htm 6489 11 2 2014 2 00 CD a Date variables Step 8 You have now completed the wizard Simply click the F
18. 0 Kbps statistics about 0 Total time 1 m 44 secs the transfer 0 Transfer time 5 secs 0 Total bytes transferred 96 10 MB 100763334 bytes 0 Folders created 3 0 Transferred 58 files 0 Verification not enabled OY sc ca a 0 Syne completed OK Qs a te tt Log Threads Sync completed successfully 58 files 96 10 MB transferred and 3 other operations performed Next Step Viewing log files 4 3 9 Viewing history log When sync tasks are run unattended by the scheduler it s often necessary afterward to see what files were transferred and to where It s also important to see if any errors have occurred during the sync runs This is where automatic history logging comes into play BatchSync always generates a sync task run history log with information about all of the tasks that have been run To see this log file click the History button on the left hand side of the main window The history log looks like this SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 34 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP Iak Yiew Toots Help Test Development s J ORD New Wead Edt Duplicme Delete Preview Sync Folder De syne Tasks Sets Date Date Today x 273 2014 19814 K 27 32014 Ss OK 273 2016 LEH Ok mmus x 27 320142 1848 Jate Vestenday 2632014 1 8h42 2632014 Leonel 2632014 13400 263201451236 2632014 2324 date This Week 253 2014 1 41 12 253014 13 59 21 2532014 LEMN 253 2016 53331 2532014 21855 2432014 19 8
19. ASCII mode You can change the list of file types there This list is used only when the Auto file transfer mode is selected for the site see Edit Task gt Edit Site gt File Transfer Mode drop down list The bottom line is that both the file date and size change when a file is uploaded So we cannot use file attributes to track changes and see whether a file has changed on the server If you compare SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 77 these two files later it looks like the file on the server is newer because its date stamp says so And its size is different so its contents must have been modified since it was uploaded Yet neither is true the file is the same as the local source file and it has not been changed in any way And here is the problem how do you tell when a file has really changed and how can you successfully compare local and remote files The solution is the SyncDB tracking file SyncDB file The SyncDB file records the source and target file attributes like date amp size for later use AFTER successfultransfer So we record the new size and date of the file on the server Notice that we do not care if and when these attributes are different than the values on the local file but we simply record the new attribute values This information is saved to the SyncDB file and used the next time when the sync is run The next time the sync task is run the saved SyncDB i
20. Command line parameter D Direction This parameter overrides Edit Task gt Sync tab gt Sync Direction option button D OneWayUpload Upload local folder to remote server folder D OneWayDownload Download remote server folder to local folder D TwoWayUpload Perform two way bidirectional sync Command line parameter P Protocol This parameter overrides Edit Task gt Sync tab gt Edit Server gt Protocol combo box value P FTP FTP P FTPSexplicit FTPS with SSL Explicit with data P FTPSexplicit_nodata FTPS with SSL Explicit without data P FTPSimplicit FTPS with SSL Implicit P SFTP SFTP using SSH2 Command line parameter H Host address Port This parameter overrides Edit Task gt Sync tab gt Edit Server gt Host address and Port field values H www server com 21 Specify host address and port values The port value is optional Command line parameter U Username This parameter overrides Edit Task gt Sync tab gt Edit Server gt Username field value U admin Specify username Command line parameter W PassWord This parameter overrides Edit Task gt Sync tab gt Edit Server gt Password field value W secret Specify password Command line parameter S Source folder name This parameter overrides Edit Task gt Sync tab gt Source folder field value Quotes around the folder name are required S c backup Local source folder name Use quotes S www logs Remote source folder name
21. Implicit and explicit modes In the implicit mode the server is set up to listen to a specific port most often 990 and it accepts only SSL secured connections This mode is not formally adopted in an RFC but it is widely supported Both command and data channels are automatically secured In the explicit mode the server is usually set up to use port 21 and the server can be configured to accept both secure FTPS and non secure FTP connections BatchSync initiates a secure connection with the AUTH TLS command This mode is formally adopted by an RFC so for strict compliance to standards use the explicit method SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 108 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP Notice The server configuration determines what modes can be used So if a server is configured to support only FTPS implicit on port 990 then you cannot use anything else Similarly if a server only supports FTPS explicit on port 21 then you must select that option There is no automation or intelligence in selecting the proper mode but as the user you need to know what modes the server uses and supports So please consult your server administrator for help in selecting the correct mode and port to use Data connection mode e Passive mode PASV Data connection is made from BatchSync to the server Better option when dealing with firewalls e Active mode PORT BatchSync waits for data connection to be made from the s
22. Include Exclude Comparison Conflicts Logs Email Verification Include filtering by file folder name E Match case in file folder name filters E File name matches filter entered below F Folder name matches filter entered below D webroot html D webroot lor webroot pics You can enter multiple file folder name filters by separating them with semicolons like htm tt gif htdocs jpg Include filtering by file size date amp attributes I Fie size is Bb 104 bytes E File changed lessthan 15 minutes ago gt E File date is between 28Mar2014 1011 28Mar2014 1011 E File attributes E Archive E Read only E System E Hidden Compressed E Encrypted O By default include filtering is turned off so all files are included in the sync When you tum include filtering on only files that do match one or more filters are included in the sync Filter text field now contains notice semicolons between folder names d webroot html d webroot logs d webroot pics Now it s time to check how this filter works So run sync preview again and after preview completes SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual click Show All button on the Sync Preview window toolbar E htm about htm e download html LU index html le products html 2010 12 01 log 12010 12 02108
23. PAS M Auto two are only available in Use following Active mode port range min max Secure edition V Resume interrupted transfers Cancel Help Click OK button to save changes The Edit Server window fields Required fields are marked with an Site label Free form label for the site used only for display purposes E g Web server or Company backup server Host name or address The server address as a name or IP number When setting up a web site on a web hosting company s server you get this address from them E g ftp myserver com or 82 108 11 151 Do not enter prefixes like ftp or http If Use IPv6 is enabled you can use IPv6 addresses like fe80 9981 9452 fea5 bf7c or host name that translates to IPv6 address Use IPv6 When checked BatchSync makes connection over IPv6 NOTE Your internet connection and server must be IPv6 enabled in order to utilize this feature Username SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 107 Login username When setting up a web site on a web hosting company s server you get a username from them E g 80usr5223 or johndoe Password Login password When setting up a web site on the web hosting company s server you get this password from them E g secret or 5tzP7aK3 For SFTP protocol you can also use Public Key Authentication for logins Click SFTP tab to enable this se
24. Shadow Copy Optimization Writer since it has no selected co mponents for restore Discover components that reside outside the shadow set Discover all excluded components Discover excluded writers Discover explicitly included components Verifying explicitly specified writers components Select explicitly included components Writer System Writer Add component System Files Writer ASR Writer Add component ASR ASR Add component Volumes Volume 341603ab 9a4f 11dc 9040 806e6f6e6963 Add component Volumes Volume 341603aa 9a4f 11dc 9040 806e6f6e6963 Add component BCD BCD Add component Disks harddisk0 Writer WMI Writer Add component WMI Writer COM REGDB Writer Add component COM REGDB Writer Registry Writer Add component Registry Creating shadow set e6b9617c 6e02 461b 8b76 a164e399beaa Adding volume Volume 341603aa 9a4f 11ldc 9040 806e6f6e6963 C to the s hadow set Preparing for backup Waiting for the asynchronous operation to finish Waiting for the asynchronous operation to finish Creating the shadow DoSnapshotSet Waiting for the asynchronous operation to finish Waiting for the asynchronous operation to finish Shadow copy set successfully created List of created shadow copies SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 86 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP Query
25. Step 4 Enter schedule We want to run the Upload Web Site task every 15 minutes To create this schedule click the Triggers tab and select the New button The New Trigger window opens Select the Daily option and check the Repeat task every 15 minutes option a9 New Trigger Begin the task On a schedule X Settings One time Start 5 7 2010 12 08 57 1 _ Synchronize across time zones D Weekly Monthly Advanced settings Delay task for up to random delay 1 hour for a duration of 1 day ss E Stop all running tasks at end of repetition duration E Stop task if it runs longer than Expire V Enabled Go Click OK to save this schedule Step 5 Enter program name to run every 15 minutes We want to execute the SYNC EXE command line tool with Upload WebSite Stf as the command line SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 41 parameter every 15 minutes So click the Actions tab and select the New button The New Action window opens You can copy amp paste the New Action window s Program script and Add Arguments fields from the BatchSync Task Editor First select the task in the Task Editor main window and select the Schedule command from the menu Copy the content of the text fields to the clipboard and paste them to the Windows Task Scheduler like this r r D Schedule Task New Action BatchSyne uses Windows Task Sch
26. TechNet VERY IMPORTANT The VSS is part of the operating system not BatchSync so we do not provide any technical support for using VSS or methods described here But we try to demonstrate here how to use VSS together with SYNC EXE to backup transfer in use locked files in the system Using on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 The Volume Snapshot Service was first added to Microsoft Windows in Windows XP this version of VSS is used by NTBackup however it can only create non persistent snapshots a temporary snapshot usually used for creating a file based backup or more generally accessing copies of files that have been locked by applications for editing Due to this limitation using VSS on these systems is not described here while it is possible Windows Vista Server 2008 2012 Windows 7 8 x and later These operating systems fully support creating persistent snapshots But supporting tools are badly lacking so we use VSHADOW EXE utility for using and creating snapshots you can also use DISKSHADOW EXE on Server 2008 VSHADOW EXE utility is from the VSS SDK from Microsoft There is a specific version for each windows version and 32bit 64bit editions and we have created a zip file containing different versions This ZIP file also contains a documentation for this utility Download it from here e http sitedesigner com dnl vshadow zip Get the copy from the zip for your system and rename it as VSHADOW EXE To make example
27. The handling of conflicts requires that BatchSync can detect the conflicts To properly detect conflicts SyncDB must be enabled see Comparison tab as the SyncDB file stores the state of each file after every sync run Conflicts in one way syncs Conflicts in a one way sync occur when the software detects that the source file has changed but also that the target file has changed If we Always transfer source file to target we potentially overwrite the changes made to the target file But if your sync scenario is set up so that changes should only occur to source files and never to target files then it s safe to overwrite any possible changes in the target If conflict occurs perform action specified above and write line to the error log When checked an error message is written to the error log stating the name of the folder and of the SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 98 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP 5 17 7 conflicting file Conflicts in two way syncs Conflicts in two way syncs occur when the software detects that a file exists on both the source and target and that both files have changed since the last sync If the Transfer newer file option is selected it overwrites the changes made to the older file If you want to ensure that no changes are ever overwritten select the Skip file option But this then means that folders are not in sync after the task is run all files are NOT identical If confl
28. The majority of the FTP and SFTP servers in use worldwide do not include seconds in file time stamps Therefore it s recommended to check this option to compare file times without seconds Ignore Daylight Saving Time exact 1 hour difference in file times All file time stamps change by a 1 hour offset when a computer switches to from Daylight Saving Time DST This option ignores this exact 3600 second difference in file time stamps Notice If you want to always copy all files making the task a copy task instead of a sync task you can do the following 1 Disable the SyncDB feature 2 Uncheck the Compare dates check box 3 Uncheck the Compare sizes check box Now when the sync is run no file dates or sizes are compared so the files are always transferred This means that even when an identical file already exists on the target the source file is still transferred 5 17 6 Conflicts tab A conflict occurs when both the source and target files have changed since the last sync run This raises a problem as overwriting either of the files will result in the changes made to it disappearing In general this should never happen Better still the file work flow the folder structure and the sync tasks should be designed to ensure that this never happens The settings on this tab help you to log conflict situations This provides you with a good tool to help in figuring out how to prevent conflicts from happening in the future
29. after successful transfer i e move files L DelPropagate Edit Task gt Options tab gt Two way sync propagate file folder deletions on one side to the other side Command line parameter N Number of threads This parameter overrides Edit Task gt Options tab gt Number of threads setting SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 52 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP IN 12 Use 12 simultaneous threads Command line parameter B SyncDB filename This parameter overrides default SyncDB filename By default SyncDB filename is same as sync task filename with extension STF replaced with SDB It is very important that you pass unique filename for each folder pair you sync The SyncDB file stores file change tracking data and if same filename is used for multiple folder pairs file change tracking no longer works properly You need to use quotes around filename and make sure that folder name you specify here already exists B c ProgramData Sync set1 sdb Save SyncDB file with this unique filename Command line parameter V Verbose mode When you pass the V command line parameter the output on the console looks like this D sync gt sync V DownloadFiles stf BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP 3 0 0 Verbose mode Task name DownloadFiles stf D sync DownloadFiles stf loaded Running Connecting to localhost 21 Get directory listing LogFiles Download file LogFiles database dat Download file LogFile
30. any parameters Output looks like this BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP Run sync task to synchronize files and folders SYNC C Path SyncTask Stf D Direction P Protocol H Host Port U Username W Password S SourceFolder T TargetFolder R Recursive L Symlinks X Deletion N NumThreads B C Path SyncDB sdb G C Logs C Path SyncTask Stf Required Specify task filename with full path All task settings are read in from this file Other params passed on the command line override this task settings If no override params are passed on command line then this sync task is run as is D Direction Sync direction like D TwoWay Direction is OneWayUpload One way sync upload files OneWayDownload One way sync download files TwoWay Two way bidirectional sync P Protocol Protocol used for transfers like P SFTP FTP Standard FTP SFTP SFTP over SSH2 FTPSimplicit Secure FTP SSL implicit usually using port 990 FTPSexplicit_nodata Secure FTP SSL explicit no data channel encryption FTPSexplicit Secure FTP SSL explicit both cmd and data encrypted H Host Port Server address and port like H ftp server com 21 U Username Login username like U jack W Password Login password like W secret S SourceFolder Source folder quotes are required like S c path T TargetFolder Target folder quotes are required like S upload R Recursive Recurse subfolders like R Recursiv Recur
31. are disabled on the server NOTE The term public key authentication is somewhat misleading as this authentication method uses a public amp private key pair to perform authentication e Public key This stays always on the SSH server e Private key This stays always on the client i e BatchSync holds the private key 1 Generate new public private key pair First you need to generate a new public private key pair like this Go to Options gt SSH Security tab e Click the Generate new key pair button e Key generation window opens e Select options for new key pair the default values usually work fine Enter passphrase to encrypt private key locally Enter filenames for both private and public key or use default values Select key format openssh or ssh com Click the Generate button e Now the new key pair is ready for use Alternatively you can generate the key pair on your ssh server SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 81 2 Upload new PUBLIC key to the server Upload the just generated public key to the server You can see the path for the file in the text field The default filename for the generated public key is Identity pub Do NOT upload the PRIVATE key 3 Add key to the server s list of authorized keys Before the key pair can be used the public key must be added to the SSH server s list of approved keys Usually this can be done by adding the public key to the authorized_keys file This
32. behalf of the United States of America its agencies and or instrumentalities U S Government pursuant to solicitations issued on or after December 1 1995 the Software is provided with the commercial rights and restrictions described elsewhere herein If the Software is licensed for or on behalf of the U S Government pursuant to solicitations issued prior to December 1 1995 the Software is provided with RESTRICTED RIGHTS as provided for in FAR 48 CFR 52 227 14 JUNE 1987 or DFAR 48 CFR 252 227 7013 OCT 1988 as applicable GENERAL The license will terminate immediately without notice if you are in breach of any of its terms and conditions You shall not be entitled to a refund from SiteDesigner or any of its resellers as a result of termination The terms and conditions concerning confidentiality and restrictions on use shall continue in force even after any termination SiteDesigner may revise these Terms at any time and the revised terms shall automatically apply to the corresponding versions of the Software distributed with the revised terms If any part of these Terms is found void and unenforceable it will not affect the validity of rest of the Terms which shall remain valid and enforceable according to its terms In case of controversy or inconsistency between translations of these Terms to other languages the English version issued by SiteDesigner shall prevail These Terms shall be governed under the Laws of Finland without rega
33. check box to turn exclude st filtering on The folder name Match case in file folder name filters was added automatically to File name matches filter entered below the text field Edit v Folder name matches filter entered below Click this button to open WebR oot T emplates C WebR oot Library _ Edit separate window for entering em with semicolons like filters This resizable window makes it easier to edit filter when lots of files folders are added enter multiple filters by separa This text was appended php php cnt lek automatically Manually add this text Note semicolons between filters and that there are NO spaces between filters tering by file size date amp 4 File size is gt 024 bytes F File date is between 26 Mar 201415 20 Y 26 Mar 2014 15 20 File attributes E Archive E Read only F Hidden E Compressed E System Encrypted By default exclude filtering is tured off so no files folders are excluded from 1 the sync When you tum exclude filtering on all files folders that do match filter are not included in the sync Save Cancel Help Click Save to save changes While the Edit Task window is open you can manually add entries to the exclude text fields so edit the field to contain the text C WebRoot Templates C WebRoot Library _ Here we combine 3 filters that ar
34. commonly used to create backups In one way sync all of the new and changed files found on the source are transferred to the target You can optionally enable the deletion of any extra files in the target With this option enabled the files that do not exist on the source are also deleted on the target In this way the target is an exact copy of the source True bi directional synchronization Two way sync Two way sync ensures that two folders and their subfolders remain in sync when files are changed on both sides BatchSync does this by scanning all of the files in the source and target folders and locating the new and changed files on both sides It then transfers all of the files that are newer than the corresponding files on the other side You can optionally enable propagated deletions for two way syncs With this option enabled if you delete a file on one side BatchSync will propagate this deletion to the other side by deleting this same file on the other side This results in both sides containing exactly the same set of files Chained Synchronization You can create a chain of sync tasks to keep computers at several locations in sync even when they are not directly connected to each other For example sync computer A and B which results in all of the changes in A propagating to B Then sync B and C making these two identical As result A B and C all contain exactly the same set of files Sync vs Copy vs Move files The d
35. easier to identify archives This feature can be used to create a sync task that will transfer all of the files in the source and creates a backup copy of the source files on source like this ftp server com OutBox gt C InBox And having Archive folder Archive TODAY yyyy mm dd As an example the following files are copied to the ftp server com OutBox Source ftp server com OutBox Target C InBox SalesData zip Readme txt SalesByArea SalesNY doc SalesByArea SalesCA doc Sync task is run and here are the results after the sync run Source ftp server com OutBox Target C InBox SalesByArea empty folder is not deleted SalesData zip Readme txt SalesByArea SalesNY doc SalesByArea SalesCA doc Source ftp server com Archive 2014 04 15 SalesData zip Readme txt SalesByArea SalesNY doc SalesByArea SalesCA doc This option cannot be used together with Delete extra files or Delete source files after transfer options Notice Source files are moved to archive folder after transfer and this move will fail if file with same filename already exists in the archive folder Therefore it s usually best to use date variables in the archive folder name to create new archive for each transfer If you run same task multiple times per day you can add time component to the date variable like this Archive folder name Archive TODAY yyyy mm dd Hh Nn Ss SiteDes
36. file contains all of the public keys for the user You can usually find this file at HOME ssh authorized_keys NOTE The location of the file is system dependent Please consult your SSH server user manual for settings needed to turn on the public key authentication You can add the uploaded Identity pub file to the authorized_keys file with the command cat Identity pub gt gt authorized_keys 4 Make sure that server uses public key authentication The SSH server must be configured to use public key authentication on SSH logins Usually this means editing the etc ssh sshd_config file to turn on the public key authentication For example the settings can be PasswordAuthentication no PubkeyAuthentication yes AuthorizedKeysFile h ssh authorized_keys After editing restart the sshd server to re read the configuration sshd_config file something like sudo etc init d sshd restart or sudo service ssh restart NOTE The settings above are examples and the settings you need are SSHD server specific Please consult the SSH server documentation for more info 5 Turn on public key authentication at the sync task level e Select the sync task that should use public key authentication from the task list Then select the Edit Task gt Edit server gt SFTP tab gt Authentication method for SFTP logins Public Key e Select PRIVATE key file you generated in step 1 e Enter same passphrase that you entered when you generated the
37. framework to allow volume backups to be performed while applications on a system continue to write to the volumes Backing up and restoring critical business data can be very complex due to the following issues e The data usually needs to be backed up while the applications that produce the data are still running This means that some of the data files might be open locked or they might be in an inconsistent state e f the data set is large it can be difficult to back up all of it at one time SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 84 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP Correctly performing backup and restore operations requires close coordination between the backup applications the line of business applications that are being backed up and the storage management hardware and software The Volume Shadow Copy Service VSS which was introduced in Windows Server 2003 facilitates the conversation between these components to allow them to work better together When all the components support VSS you can use them to back up your application data without taking the applications offline VSS coordinates the actions that are required to create a consistent shadow copy also known as a snapshot or a point in time copy of the data that is to be backed up Summary VSS makes it possible to copy backup all files in the system even if they are locked and in use Please read more about VSS e Wikipedia Shadow Copy e Microsoft
38. git pics general minus gif pics general plus gif pics system pics system admin jpg pics systemiuser jpg pics boxshot jpg picsJogo gif pics main jpg F Sync Preview gt A 10 oja Sync Show All Transfers Errors Columns Log Close Local Remote Extra Name Direction Name Transfer Reason Status B D iwebroot gt Uploadivebroot Folder does not exist a p cgi bin cgi bin Folder does not exist aj install cgi cgi bin nstall cgi File does not exist J search cgi cgi bin search cgi File does not exist E B dev dev Folder does not exist _ admin dev deviadmin dev File does not exist _jsystem dev devisystem dev File does not exist Eb htm html Folder does not exist about htm html about htm File does not exist download html htmi download htm File does not exist index html html index html File does not exist products html htmliproducts html File does not exist Li logs logs Folder does not exist Folder does not exist File does not exist File does not exist File does not exist File does not exist Folder does not exist File does not exist File does not exist File does not exist Folder does not exi Folder does not exist File does not exist File does not exist Folder does not exist File does not exist File does not exist File does not exist Folder does not exist File does not exist File does not exist File does not exist File does not exist File does not exist Sync Preview completed successfully 25 fi
39. in production Accept only certificate if its Server can be identified by a certificate checksum called SHA1 or MD5 fingerprint This fingerpring is calculated from the private key of the servers SSL certificate The fingerprint cannot be altered or manufactured and it is unique so no two certificates can have same fingerprint By comparing the known saved fingerprint to the received fingerprint you can be sure that you are connecting to the same server as you did previously This prevents main in the middle attacks The certificate itself can be CA or self signed This option can be used in production environment if CA signed certificate cannot be used To set up fingerprint comparison do as follows 1 Run Sync Preview with task that connects using FTPS protocol 2 Scroll Sync Preview window log pane to the top 3 Locate SHA1 fingerprint line in the log and right click on it to open popup menu Select Copy single line to clipboard from the menu SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 115 ie Sync Preview EE J m 2 3 Moos Sync Show All Transfers Errors Columns Log Close Local Remote Extra a Name Direction Name Transfer Reason Status a E C tem Mhome nlitemp42 ey Ej Recommended Recommended Profiles Recommended AdobeRGE No size or date compt Profiles Recommended AppleRGB No size or date compe Profiles Recommended ColorMatct No size or date compt
40. jpg File does not exist E customer2 jpg pics customer customer2 jpg File does not exist E p general 4 pics general Folder does not exist gt a cart gif pics generalicart gif File does not exist minus gif 4 pics general minus gif File does not exist m plus gif pics general plus gif File does not exist m system a pics system Folder does not exist gt admin jpg pics system admin jpg File does not exist i juseripa picsisystemiuser jpg File does not exist bE oy pi log Matches exclude filter E boxshot jp pics boxshot jpg File does not exist i ss logo gif picsAogo gif File does not exist main jpg pics main jpg File does not exist Log lhreads Sync Preview completed successfully 16 files 2 53 MB to transfer and 7 other operations to perform SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 75 5 12 Now this backup sync task downloads only relevant files and folders Related e Include folders filter sample SyncDB SyncDB is a very important feature of the BatchSync software SyncDB is a special log file that tracks changes to the source and target files It records the file size and date for all files in the sync On the next run this recorded info is compared to the present size and date values If these values are different then the file has changed since the last sync and will be transferred But why use a separate log file to record and compare date and size val
41. name is evaluated to current date values For example Target Folder C Backup STODAY yyyy mm dd is evaluated at run time to the folder name if run on 15 6 2014 C Backup 2014 06 15 In this case target folder C Backup 2014 06 15 is automatically created when the sync task is run You can use multiple variables in the folder name like Target Folder C Backup Year YEAR Month SMONTH would evaluate to C Backup Year 2014 Month 06 at run time The yymmdd portion of the date variable can be used to format the date in various ways see the table below for more information Available Date Variables The following table shows a list of date variables that can be used in folder names Date Variable Evaluates to YEAR Evaluates to current year like 2014 MONTH Evaluates to current month like 06 DAY Evaluates to current day like 31 TODAY yymmdd Evaluates to current date with formatting PREV_BUSDAY yymmdd Evaluates to previous business day with formatting BUSDAY yymmdd Evaluates to current business day with formatting NEXT_BUSDAY yymmdd Evaluates to next business day with formatting The PREV_BUSDAY BUSDAY and NEXT_BUSDAY variables always evaluate to the business days Mon Fri For example if today was 6 21 2014 Monday these variables would be evaluated to e PREV_BUSDAY 6 18 2014 the previous business day before Monday is Friday e BUSDAY 6 21 2014 the current bus
42. successfully An error means that file was not transferred successfully even after retries The number of retries are specified in Edit Task gt Edit Server gt Options tab gt Timeouts gt Retry count max There you can also specify the time between retries Log file rotation schemes There are seven different rotation schemes to choose from macros are explained in detail below 1 No Rotation Always write to the same file File size increases until disk is full 2 Rotate w Max Size Write to the same file until file size reaches Max Size Then rename to bak log and create new file 3 Auto Rotate Daily Macros in the filename evaluate to a different filename each day so a new file is started every day 4 Auto Rotate Weekly Macros in the filename evaluate to a different filename each week so a new file is started every week 5 Auto Rotate Monthly Macros in the filename evaluate to a different filename each month so a new file is started every month 6 Auto Rotate Custom Creates a custom filename using macros see samples below 7 New log for each run Creates a new log file each time sync task is run Log file deletion BatchSync ONLY deletes log files when Rotate w Max Size is selected In all other cases log files are never deleted so they eat up the disk space until the disk is full Therefore it s recommended that you select the Rotate w Max Size option or make sure that you delete log files manually every now and
43. system boxshot jpg Ss logo gif main jpg Log Threads gt Sync Preview roy x gt D F O A Sync Show All Transfers Errors Columns Log Close Local Remote Extra Name Direction Name Transfer Reason Status B d D iwebroot S html html about html htmldownload html Htmlindex html Htmlroducts html logs logs html logs 2010_12_01 log logs 2010_12_02 log pippi pics system pics boxshot jpg picsAogo gif pics main jpg eyes Sync Preview completed successfully 9 files 1 70 MB to transfer and 4 other operations to perform Folder does not exist File does not exist File does not exist File does not exist File does not exist Folder does not exist Doesnt match include File does not exist File does not exist Doesnt match include Folder does not exist Doesnt match include Vt match include esnt match include File does not exist File does not exist File does not exist LL 71 This looks almost correct but subfolders of the c webroot pics and c webroot logs were not included Why is that you might ask The answer is that only exactly matching folder names were included in the sync To extend matching you need to match c webroot pics folder PLUS all its subfolders by adding a character to the end of the folder name like this d webroot html d webroot logs d webroot pics In other words d webroot pics c webroot pics Now save changes to task a
44. upload each file If file is locked and cannot be uploaded task total error count is incremented e f total error count is lt Max then next item is uploaded e When total error count reaches limit of 20 software does not even try to upload remaining files but they are flagged with error message Max errors per task limit exceeded error code 1101 Why this settings is needed in the first place you might ask The answer is that if there is for example 100 000 files in the transfer queue and server stops responding it would take forever to try to transfer each of 100 000 files So instead software gives up after Max errors Options tab Server type The default value Auto detect works in the vast majority of cases If you have problems when running a sync and filenames are not shown correctly select the server type from the list List command BatchSync sends this command to the server to request a directory listing The beginning of the command must always be LIST but you can add parameters to this command For instance many unix servers do not include hidden files in a bare LIST command You can set it to LIST aL to command the server to resolve links and include hidden files But note list commands are server specific so not all servers support the same set of parameters for the LIST command Server time zone If the server is running on a different time zone like is usually the case when using web hosting compa
45. what final certificate Subject CN and SAN field values are The most common way to fill in these fields are 1 Subject CN field Your server host name you want the certificate to protect like www sitedesigner com 2 Subject SAN field Alternate names for the server like sitedesigner com and www sitedesigner com Following illustrates the connection to the FTPS server that has valid CA signed certificate installed 1 Run Sync Preview 2 Scroll Sync Preview window log pane to the top r gt Sync Preview ka a a m aA gt Show All Transfers Errors Columns Log Close Local Remote Extra a Name Direction Name Transfer Reason Status L Eb pp C tempt2 Uploadit2 F 5 3a02680u jpg gt 3a02660u jpg No size or date comp E 3a03590u jpg gt 3a03590u jpg No size or date comp 3408638 u jpg gt 3a08635u jpg No size or date compe E 3a09957u jpg gt 3a09957u jpg No size or date compt E 3a13599u jpg gt 3a13599ujpg No size or date Warning is diplayed as SSL i Certificate Validation is not yet tumed Source Message s U entticate Warming 0 __ Note You should enable SSL certificate validation in Edit Task gt Edit Server gt FTPS tab 0 Received SSL Certificate 0 Subject CN www sitedesigner com 0 Subject SAN DNS Name www sitedesigner com DNS Name sitedesigner com Here are Subject CN and 0 Subject O Domain Control Validated O lt empty gt L lt empt
46. 2014 4 00 00 gt contact_support htm 0 0 00 00 File does not exist download htm 12097 1122014 4 00 00 download htm 0 0 00 00 File does not exist download_3dftp htm 6634 1122014 4 00 00 gt download_3dftp htm 0 0 00 00 File does not exist je download_batchsyncttp hi 6489 11 2 2014 4 00 00 download_batchsynct 0 0 00 00 File does not exist e download_batchsyncftps 6430 11 2 2014 4 00 00 download_batchsynci 0 0 00 00 File does not exist download _instantsyncftp 6442 11 2 2014 4 00 00 download_instantsync 0 0 00 00 File does not exist v Source Message a 0 Get directory listing httpdocs _notes _notes 0 0 os 0 3 folders to create 0 61 files to transfer 32 47 MB E 0 E 0 Sync Preview completed OK Log Threads Sync Preview completed successfully 61 files 32 47 MB to transfer and 3 other operations to perform Step 11 The sync is now complete and all of files from the local C WebRoot have been uploaded to the remote httproot folder SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Getting Started 21 i w Sync FS OA Show All Transferred Errors Columns Log Close Local Remote Extra A Name Size Modified Dir Name Size Modified Transfer Reason d M gt WVebRoot 0 00 00 Httpdocs 0 00 00 OK B _notes 26 3 2014 11 36 44 o gt _notes 0 00 00 Folder does not exisi OK dnl 26 3 2014 12 29 36 dnl 0 00 00 Folder does n
47. 311f2d2f C Program Files BatchSync Secure gt SET SHADOW_DEVICE_1 GLOBALROOT Device HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy23 Now we can access created snapshot using SHADOW_ID_1 environment variable we need this on the next step Map snapshot to drive letter Then map new snapshot to available drive letter like in this example we map it to X C Program Files BatchSync Secure gt vshadow el SSHADOW_ID_1 X SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 87 VSHADOW EXE 2 2 Volume Shadow Copy sample client Copyright C 2005 Microsoft Corporation All rights reserved Option Expose a shadow copy Setting the VSS context to Oxffffffff Exposing shadow copy 50514b6 1208 4d42 88a4 Checking if X is a valid drive letter Shadow copy exposed as X C Program Files BatchSync Secure gt 822311f2d2f under the path X We can now access the snapshot of the C drive under X drive The X drive contains static files that can be copied and backed up even system continues to write to C drive and files continue to change This is sort of magic that happens behind the scenes Run sync task to create an offline backup Now create Upload Stf sync task in Task Editor that uploads X Windows System32 to remote server for offline backup NOTE We are using X drive not C drive Then run it with SYNC EXE notice that we are still u
48. 4 2432014 13 99 06 2432014 11 44 10 24320145383 24320142 ee amp aaeaaniags og Options Task Upload web ste stt instrument data Xfer stt Orack DB bach up stt Backup SF Servers stf Backup NY Servers set Torsi Act Transferred Deleted Mo ac Errors Bytes sns 2 nm sm 678 50 23e nem 00675138 sn use 365 MERE Total Time Avg speed Log 39 BMS O MAs Lo Click Log link to MD Se view list of files en wae L414 169325 KBs transferred Upload web ste stf instrument deta Xfer stf Oracte DB hackup stf Backup SF Serven stf Backup NY Servers set Upload web ste stf Instrument data Xfer stf Orade DB backup stf Backup SF Servers stf Backup NY Servers stt Upload web ste stf Instrument data Xfer stt Oracle DB hachupstf Backup SF Servers stf Backup NY Servers att n 41645 2 sn on LL La move source test stf 7e Des 217 99308 LEE 75 ae mme uB 90675130B 363 MIB 65 58 Dee 9067 1308 suue 363 MEB Chemins GrapayDae imparis Corme 17 Mie lv _Chartintay 7 Aucune 38 DID n 128 3 hes L318 32 544 5 1s 012 361774 hs 1414 169325 Bs sn BIAS on Lm Bs eee This sync task LA 169325 Ms had errors 43 DI s on im 3 KES 12519 325465 Ki OD 174s UM WINS AP NUM SRL This log includes the status of each task the number of files transferred and numerous other statistics This makes it easy to pinpoint all of the tasks that had errors You can view the list of fil
49. AT_TOTAL_TIME Total sync run time like 59 secs STAT_BYTES_ TRANSFERRED Total number of bytes transferred like 2 57 MB 2697819 bytes STAT_AVG_SPEED Average transfer speed like 756 4 KB s STAT_AVG_BANDWIDTH Average bandwidth usage like 5807 5 Kbps STAT_VERIFY_RESULT Verification tab results Transfer results OK ERROR STAT_LIST_OF_FILES List of all files transferred and list of all files with error message The default subject line is SSTAT_STATUS_MSG SSTAT_TASK_FILE NAME STAT_FILES_TRANSFERRED files transferred and this results in email subjects like this Sync OK UploadWebServer stf 18 files transferred Sync OK Backup NY Server 5214 files transferred Sync Errors Logfile Download stf 0 files transferred For example if you are only running a single sync task you could change this field to Transfer S in STAT_TO AL TIME AT_STATUS SSTAT_FILES_TRANSE ERRED ERRED files of total SSTAT BYTES TRANSE and this would result in an email subject like this Transfer OK 552 files of total 2 57 MB Send text html email 2697819 bytes in 59 secs SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 103 BatchSync uses email template files for text and html notification email messages These are text files that can be edited wi
50. Alan Additional Data Error Value 2147943726 This error message means that Task Scheduler has lost the user credentials for the task and therefore it cannot start the task Mostly this occurs after system reboot or when updating the system with security patches The fix is to open task for editing save changes and enter username and password again when prompted This way username and password is properly saved with the task again This is a known problem with Windows Vista 3 4 Upgrading from 3 x Installation You can install the new 4 0 version over an existing 3 x version without uninstalling 3 x first But before you do that make a backup of existing sync tasks To make a backup copy all STF and SDB files from your current sync task folder to a safe place Like this e Copy C ProgramData Sync C Safe Old sync tasks can be used as is and further edited with 4 0 But after editing you CANNOT use the same sync tasks with an older version Rather you need to restore them from the backup The new 4 0 version cannot be installed in parallel with an older 3 x version as the new version replaces the existing installation So if you want to test the 4 0 version and keep your existing 3 x installation SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 12 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP 3 5 intact you need to install 4 0 on a separate computer Upgrade pricing Get 50 Off If you are a licensed user of the 3 x versio
51. December q Display the quarter of the year as a number 1 4 y Display the day of the year as a number 1 366 yy Display the year as a 2 digit number 00 99 yyyy Display the year as a 4 digit number 1000 9999 D Reference Manual 63 5 9 Samples of macros in filenames task filename is WebUpload STF and date sync is run 2 15 2014 at 11 45 59 Format Evaluated to filename MYEAR_ MONTH_ DAY_ FILENAME log 2014 02 15 WebUpload log DATE yyyy_mm_dd _ FILENAME log 2014 02 15 WebUpload log FILENAME Month MONTH Date DAY logfile WebUpload Month 02 Date 15 logfile DATE mm dd yyyy FILENAME at DATE Hh Nn Ss txt 2014 02 15 WebUpload at 11 45 59 txt DATE mm dd yyyy FILENAME at DATE Hh Nn Ss txt ERROR Filename cannot contain or characters When entering a filename with macros you can test it by pressing the 1 button This button evaluates the macro and shows it in a message box Filters and wildcard characters General File and folder name filters are used to either select a subset of files to be included by default all files are included or remove a subset of files from the sync file set by default no files are excluded When a filename matches the include filter it is included Similarly when a filename matches the exclude filter it is excluded If a filename matches both the include and exclude filters then it s excluded
52. LA AdobeRGB1 996 icc A AppleRGB icc A ColorMatchRGB icc Al JapanStandard icc 4g Source Message O Connecting to 192 168 100 46 21 s this certificate is self signed the data contained in the certificate does not tell us anything as anybody can create a self signed certificate with any data Note You should enable SSL certificate validation in Edit Task gt Edit Server gt FTPS tab 0 Received SSL Certificate 0 Subject CN mint 0 Subject SAN lt empty gt 0 Subject OU lt empty gt O lt empty gt L lt empty gt 0 Subject ST lt empty gt C lt empty gt 0 0 0 0 0 We are only interested on this line It is fingerprint of the certificate and it uniquely identifies the server Issuer CN mint Issuer OU lt empty gt O lt empty gt L lt empty gt A Valid 29 11 2012 03 27 11 2022 12 50 03 SH fingerprint 2 67 cf bc b 84 f2 06 58 52 c5 2e 55 0 MD5 fingerprint 87 6b 9a a5 18 17 06 4f ca 17 79 cc 31 44 de 88 Copy single line to clipboard z Log Threads Copy whole log to clipboard Sync Preview completed successfully 22 files 450 MB to transfer 4 Close sync preview and select Edit Task gt Edit Server gt FTPS tab and paste fingerprint to Accept only certificate it its SHA1 fingerprint matches text field r al Edit Site amp Server a General Firewall Timeouts
53. Options Options 2 SFTP FTPS SSL Certificate Validation Accept any certificate but display a warning Accept only certificate if its as SHA fingerprint matches X 36 86 f0 8c 68 e2 67 ch be bf 88 50 84 f2 06 58 52 c5 2e 55 Accept only certificates that can be fully validated and its Paste fingerprint here Subject Common Name CN field matches X Co Genet Hee 5 Save changes Now each time BatchSync connects to the server it compares the received fingerprint to saved one and aborts connection with error if fingerprints do not match Accept only certificates that can be fully validated CA signed certificate is the best way to secure FTPS data transfers When this option is selected BatchSync validates the certificate and chain of certificates up to the root certificate It also makes sure that certificate has not expired it s not revoked etc In addition of making sure that certificate is valid it SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 116 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP checks that certificate belongs to the server you expect To set this up you need to select which field of the certificate is used to store server s identify This identity can be stored into 1 Subject Common Name CN field 2 Subject Alternate Names SAN field When you generate a certificate signing request CSR to apply for a certificate you decide
54. PS and SFTP servers requires the Secure edition FTP FTPS or SFTP Server lt gt FTP FTPS or SFTP Server transfers are not possible aka FXP transfers When the Local or Network folder option is selected click the button to browse to the folder or enter the name of the folder in the Folder name field When the FTP FTPS or FTPS Server option is selected click the _Edit Server button to enter server connection parameters like the server address username passwords etc In the same window you can also select the protocol used to make a connection FTP FTPS SFTP After entering the server connection parameters enter the folder name like httpdocs or pub html in the Server Folder field sie D You can swap the source and target by clicking the button Edit Server button SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 90 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP 5 17 2 Each sync task has its own Server Settings So modifying the server settings in one task does not alter the server settings in other tasks You can access server settings via clicking Edit Server button Server settings contains following tabs General tab Firewall tab Timeouts tab Options tab Options 2 tab SFTP tab FTPS tab Date Variables Click the Date variables link to add a date variable to the folder name These date variables can be used in the source and target folder names to create dynamically changing folder names Usually
55. SFTP When you copy i e upload a file from a local folder to an FTP server none of its current attributes like date modified and size are preserved This is what happens Local FTP Server C WebRoot web Size and Date Modified attributes have changed gt lt gt lt gt But file has NOT changed index html Size 1985 Date modified 1 17 2014 9 58 index html Size 2058 Date modified 1 5 2014 8 45 What actually happened here Two things First the file date changed due to shortcomings in the FTP protocol with the result that the uploaded file date will be set to the current date time of the FTP server s clock So the date is the same as the upload date time but notice this is not the same as your local computer date time We cannot tell the actual time difference between your local computer and the FTP server s clock But it is some seconds some minutes or even some hours if the server is in a different time zone Then you ask why not set the uploaded file date time to the same value as the local file Good question And the answer is simply that this is not part of the FTP standard specification In other words there is no way in the FTP protocol to set the file date stamp This sounds unbelievable but it is a fact There have been numerous attempts to add this feature to the FTP protocol but none of these has really succeeded and it s not part of the standard There are actually some non standard way
56. UM SCRL Preview button Sync Preview works exactly like the normal Sync but no actual files are transferred and no folders are created neither source nor target Sync Preview makes a connection to the server processes local files and compares them to the remote ones and shows a list of files that will be transferred in Sync Sync Preview is the perfect tool for fine tuning sync parameters editing filters and seeing filters and other options in action In our example case here the server does not yet contain any files so all the files would be transferred and are shown in Preview window The screen looks like this Folders we do NOT want to transfer List of files that will be transferred r gt Sync Preview CSS gt Sync 3 Y Os Show All Transfers Errors Columns Log Close Extra Transfer Reason St Remote Direct Name Mttpdocs gt _notes gt Library gt pics press gt press f Templates Templates L tour gt tour spi pat gt apipdf E boxshot jpg boxshot jpg e contact_support htm contact_supporthtm count txt gt counttxt e download htm downloadhtm download_batchsyncttp htm amp download_batchsyncftp htm Folder does not exist Folder does not exist Folder does not exist Folder does not exist Folder does not exist Folder does not exist File do
57. a buffer size that is the same as the Windows network stack buffer size SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 112 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP This usually gives you the optimum file transfer performance In some cases like with some ATM networks or certain servers you can get better performance by specifying the buffer size here Enter the buffer size in kilobytes in the range of 1 to 1024 The maximum value 1024 means 1024 kB You can find optimum value for Buffer Size setting with Task Optimizer 5 18 6 SFTP tab Authentication method for SFTP logins Password Username and password are used to authenticate the user see General tab Public key In this method the username and public private key pair is used to authenticate the user instead of a username password When public key authentication is used the password is not needed or used so you can leave password field empty Read more about public key authentication here Host key fingerprint When making a connection to SSH server server sends host key fingerprint to identify the server to a client With this setting you tell BatchSync to compare received fingerprint to saved one and accept connections only to the certain verified server If fingerprint does not match BatchSync will abort the connection and sync task is flagged with error To set up host key fingerprint verification do as follows 1 Run Sync Preview Scroll Sync Preview window log pa
58. a full month name January December q Display the quarter of the year as a number 1 4 y Display the day of the year as a number 1 366 yy Display the year as a 2 digit number 00 99 yyyy Display the year as a 4 digit number 1000 9999 SiteDesig 60 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP Samples of date variables in folder names Sync is run on 6 15 2014 at 11 45 59 Folder with date variable Evaluated to folder name C Backup TODAY mm_dd_yy C Backup 06_15_10 C Backup TODAY mmm DAY C Backup Jan 15 C Daily Backups TODAY dddd C Daily Backups Tuesday upload Month MONTH Day DAY upload Month 06 Day_ 15 backup TODAY mm dd yyyy _at_ TODAY Hh Nn Ss backup 06 15 2014 at 11 45 59 Using date variables in filters You can also use date variables in include and exclude filters All of the date variables described above are also available in filters For example this makes it possible to create the following Include filter Include Filename Filter STODAY mm_dd_yyyy which would include only files containing the current date 06_15 2014 in the beginning of the filename 5 8 History and Log Files History log The global run history log contains run info and statistics about all of the sync tasks that were run on this computer You can view this history log by clicking the History button on the left hand side of the main wi
59. ad cmd file that runs all commands in a sequence Upload cmd looks like this CD C Program Files BatchSync Secure vshadow p script setvar cmd C setvar vshadow el SSHADOW_ID_1 X sync c ProgramData Sync Upload stf vshadow ds SHADOW_SET_IDS Now you can run it on the command line remember to have proper access rights like administrator or schedule it with Windows Task Scheduler When scheduling again remember proper access rights run it with admin rights or under LOCALSYSTEM Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 ships with official DISKSHADOW EXE tool that exposes the functionality offered by the Volume Shadow Copy Service VSS So instead of using VSHADOW EXE shown in this example you can use DISKSHADOW EXE Highly recommended Problems The VSS is a very complex system and there are many things that can go wrong We do not provide any technical support for VSS or any methods described here Google is your best friend when trying to find more information on this subject Edit Task window Sync tab One way sync One way sync is most commonly used to create backups In one way sync all of the new and changed files found on the source are transferred to the target No changes on the target are transferred to the source SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 89 You can optionally enable the deletion of any extra files see the Options tab found on the target With t
60. ading After uploading a file the software sets the file modification date and time to the same values as those for the local file NOTE All servers do not support the MDTM or MFMT commands that the software uses to set remote file dates In these cases the file date is left at the server set value This usually does not cause any problems and sync runs work correctly due to the SyncDB feature But in those cases the remote file date is not the same as the local one The combo box below this field is for servers that do not work in the standard way and require the file date to be sent as local time You will see the need for this setting if remote file dates are off by one or two hours but the minutes and seconds are correct This problem is related to some older FTP servers the newer ones do not usually need this special handling Compression The software uses data compression automatically if it is supported by the server The default value Level 6 is a good compromise between compression efficiency and required computing power In some special cases like when running a sync using the SFTP protocol on a fast network you might want to turn compression off because compression requires a lot of computing power and might consume too many CPU cycles on both the client and server sides Therefore if you see that the CPU is peaking when running the sync you might try to turn compression off Buffer Size By default BatchSync uses
61. ame whether it is the c bin etc httpd or bin etc httpd style You can directly copy amp paste this server folder value to the sync task settings UNIX Absolute vs Relative path names BatchSync supports ONLY absolute path names So relative paths are not supported The UNIX style absolute path names start with a forward slash character like this pub html pub http docs bin etc httpd The relative paths do not start with the forward slash character The relative paths are not supported because actual absolute path might be dependent on user default login home folder and this causes lot of confusion Samples of relative paths note the missing char in the beginning e pub html e pub http docs If a user s home folder is home mike then these translate to the actual paths e home mike pub html e home mike pub http docs or if a user s home folder is usr then these translate to the actual paths e usr pub html e usr pub htip docs As the samples above show the actual path is not the same for different users so relative path names are not supported Use absolute path names instead SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 57 5 7 Date variables in folder names and filters Date variables can be used in the source and target folders names to create dynamically changing folder names Usually these are needed when creating a backup sync task where part of the target folder
62. ams gt BatchSync gt BatchSync Task Editor Older SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Getting Started 23 Start menu gt Programs gt BatchSync gt BatchSync Task Editor Next Step Task Editor user interface 4 3 3 Task Editor user interface When you start BatchSync the screen will look like this Note this screen shot displays multiple task icons but when running Task Editor for the first time no icons are shown as there are no tasks yet to display BatchSync Secure Task Editor en x Menu Bar Task View Tools Help Test Development Click New button to a P A gt E Xe Toolbar create a new sync task New Wizard Edit Duplicate Delete Preview Sync Schedule Logs Options 5 P LL Taskfiles are Folder D sync Help Tasks Select Folder _ displayed from Z this folder A Click Select Sioa 4 4 fo Ce g Folder button to a BackupWeb Dev source to Download log Field change folder server stf SSH2 stf files stf Workers stf View a list of an tasks or click ity History button ta Intranet Picture Production SSH2 Syne CA Task files view the run Sync stf sync stf server stf update stf office stf found in the history status of selected all recent sync History i i i folder All task runs files have STF Syne IL Syne NY Upload extension office stf office stf WebSite stf Icons List Details Display tasks as 5 Icons small icons Backup docs on dev stf Backup develo
63. ansfer The reason for not doing this is that many web servers do not work correctly if for example HTML files are uploaded in binary mode This is why they must be transferred using ASCII mode BatchSync supports Auto mode where the transfer mode of the file is determined by its filename extension The list of extensions that are transferred in ASCII mode is editable in global settings via the Tools gt Options gt Files transferred in ASCII mode field Most often it s best to leave this setting on Auto If you are transferring files to a server that is running Windows then no ASCII mode changes are necessary so you can select Binary mode Also some web servers work fine if html files are transferred in binary mode But it does no harm to transfer these files using Auto mode So all in all use Auto mode if you do not have a good reason not to use it Resume interrupted transfers SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 109 5 18 2 5 18 3 The FTP protocol supports a Resume feature to continue the file transfer in case of failure For example when the connection is dropped in the middle of a big file transfer BatchSync can reconnect and continue i e resume the transfer from the exact position of the failure The only drawback is that not all FTP servers support this feature When this check box is selected BatchSync tries to resume the transfer and if this fails it starts from the beginning of th
64. are already in sync When running a sync for the first time between two folders that are already in sync all of the files might be flagged for transfer This is because the file sizes and or dates are different in the source and target and there is no SyncDB file yet available to assist in the file comparison This is a problem if there are gigabytes of data to transfer Fortunately there is an option on the Edit Task gt Comparison tab that helps in these situations This option is Only reset SyncDB file on the next sync run do not transfer any files When checked the software rebuilds the SyncDB tracking file by scanning through all of the files on the source and target All of the files found on both sides are considered to be in sync and are not transferred after this reset This reset sets a starting point for tracking changes to the files and only changes occurring after this reset will be considered for transfer This check box clears itself automatically after rebuilding the SyncDB tracking file SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 78 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP SyncDB file details The SyncDB file is created after each sync by recording the file attributes of all the successfully transferred files The SyncDB file is saved to the same folder as the task file with the same file name but using the SDB extension So if the task file is C SyncTasks Upload Web Site STF then the SyncDB file is saved as C SyncTasks Up
65. c OK Level Information Source BatchSync EventID 101 Task Category 1 2 Sync Errors Level Error Source BatchSync EventID 102 Task Category 1 You can create a task in Windows Task Scheduler that monitors these events and execute other programs or actions based on BatchSync sync task results Or you can utilize various third party log monitoring tools to integrate BatchSync with external systems You can view event log with Windows Event Viewer It looks like this SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 55 F Event Viewer He File Action View Help 20B Event Viewer Local Application Number of events 27 451 g Custom Views T Windows L sz Filtered Log Application Levels Critical Error Warning Information Source BatchSync Application a a a Windows Logs m z Open Saved Log Application Level Date and Time Source EventID Task Catego amp pen saved og a 3 RESA Information 21 3 2014 14 12 30 BatchSync 101 1 Y Create Custom View E S bid Error 21 3 2014 59 BatchSync 102 1 Import Custom View System Forwarded Events sers 21 3 2014 14 22 05 BatchSync 101 LD Clear Log IE Applications and Servi Q Information 21 3 2014 14 24 53 BatchSync 101 1 AN Fitter Current Log 24 Subscriptions Information 21 3 2014 14 25 06 BatchSync 101 1 Information 21 3 2014 14 25 37 BatchSy
66. ca You acknowledge that the Software and the maintenance and support services including without limitation technical services and technical data e g manuals blueprints plans diagrams models formulae tables engineering designs and specifications and instructions written or recorded and any other such technical services and technical data the Services are of U S origin for purposes of U S export control laws regulations administrative acts or Executive Orders and any amendments thereof including without limitation the Export Administration Act of 1979 as amended the Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder the U S Export Control Laws You agree to comply with all applicable U S Export Control Laws and any applicable international laws and regulations that apply to the Software and to the Services including without limitation the Act as well as end user end use and destination restrictions issued by the U S and other governments 2 If the Software is shipped or otherwise distributed to you from a country other than the United States of America You agree to comply with the local regulations regarding exporting and or using SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 124 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP cryptographic software In all cases SiteDesigner will not be liable for the illegal export and or use of its cryptographic software by you U S GOVERNMENT RIGHTS If the Software is licensed for or on
67. cgi bin nstall cgi File does not exist E search cgi gt egi bin search cgi File does not exist B p dev gt dev Folder does not exist jadmin dey gt dev admin dey File does not exist i f __jsystem dey gt devisystem dev File does not exist d Html gt htm Folder does not exist H about html htmlabout html File does not exist download html gt htmi download htm File does not exist index html gt html index html File does not exist products html gt htmliproducts html File does not exist logs gt logs Folder does not exist p html gt logshtmi Folder does not exist HE 2010_12_01 html gt logs html 2010_12_01 html File does not exist i 2010_12_02 html gt logshtml 2010_12_02 html File does not exist 27201012 01 log gt logs 2010_12_01 log File does not exist Fo 2010_12_02Jog gt logs 2010_12_02 log File does not exist 5 p php gt php Folder does not exist i L customer php gt php customer php File does not exist ik email php Ca php email php File does not exist searchphp gt php searchphp File does not exist d pics gt pics Folder does not exist p customer gt pics customer Folder does not exist ik i customer jpg gt pics customer customer1 jpg File does not exist E customer2 jpg gt pics customer customer2 jpg File does not exist E n general gt pics general Folder does not exist i cart git gt picsigeneralicart gif File does not exist minus gif gt pics generaliminus git File doe
68. chedule tasks with InstantSync As its name implies BatchSync was designed to be run as a batch run in the unattended mode Most often this means running it automatically as a scheduled task at predefined times or intervals BatchSync includes multithreaded command line software Sync exe which is used to run sync tasks in the unattended mode Sync exe does not have any user interface but it updates the History log in Task Editor that you can use to track the files it transfers and can optionally send reports and error logs via email To run the sync task in the command line change to the BatchSync install folder and enter Sync C Tasks UploadWebSite STF This command loads the UploadWebSite STF task file and performs the sync process using the parameters and options defined in the task file Scheduling a sync task Sync tasks are scheduled using Windows Task Scheduler You can run Task Scheduler via Control Panel by double clicking the Task Scheduler icon The sync task is set up to run in the same way as running it on the command line see example above You can have multiple schedules for a single task like running it daily at 2pm and weekly on Friday at 8pm Or setting it up to run once every 5 minutes on Monday Friday between 7am 5pm The scheduled tasks are run by the Task Scheduler service so they are executed even when nobody is logged in to the computer Therefore you need to enter the user account and password that is us
69. ches www sitedesigner com Cancel Help 5 Save changes Now every time BatchSync connects to the server it validates the received server certificate and certificate path up to the root and checks that Subject CN field is www sitedesigner com If any of these checks fail connection is aborted and sync task is flagged with error SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Part VI Ordering Support and License Agreement Ordering Support and License Agreement 119 6 Ordering Support and License Agreement 6 1 Ordering Information Order BatchSync Now Toorder BatchSync online with a credit card or PayPal and download your order immediately please go to our web site at hittp Avww sitedesigner com purchase htm Other ordering options The following ordering options are available Credit Card Online Credit Card Phone Credit Card Fax PayPal Bank Wire Transfer Check Money Order Invoice Complete pricing and ordering information is available on our web site Order info and price list Where do download the purchased software You will receive an unlock key via email after purchase is complete This unlock key converts the BatchSync trial version into the full version If you have already downloaded and installed the trial version then all you need to do is enter the unlock key at the startup screen to get the full version So there is no separate full version to dow
70. completed successfully 58 files 96 10 MB to transfer and 3 other operations to perform Since those folders are now filtered out all of their files and subfolders are also excluded from the sync Now that we are happy with the results close the window by clicking the Close button Next Step Running the task in the Task Editor SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Getting Started 33 4 3 8 Running the task in the Task Editor Sync Preview proved to us that the task is now doing what we want it to do so it s time to perform the real sync Select the task in the main window and click the Sync button Sync uploads all the files to the web site and the final screen looks like this r w Sync J ft ols Show All Transferred Errors Columns Log Close Local Remote Extra Name Direction Name Status C WebRoot Mttpdocs m pics gt pics Folder created B press gt press Folder created ab tour 2 tour Folder created Hep pat gt api pdf Transferred OK E boxshot jpg gt boxshot jpg Transferred OK contact_support htm gt contact_support htm Transferred OK count txt D count txt Transferred OK download htm gt download Atm Transferred OK Source Message RTE 0 STATISTICS 0 0 No action 5 After sync 0 Enrors 0 completes log 0 Average transfer speed 18718 2 KB s pane displays 0 Average transfer bandwidth usage w 12 packet protocol overhead 168464
71. e FTPS SFTP e Include folders filter sample e Exclude files and folders filter sample 4 3 7 Previewing again to check the results Run Preview again but this time with the exclude filters in use You will see the files in the tree view that will be transferred and notice that you will NOT see the _notes Library and Templates folders To see that they were actually filtered out as expected select the Show All button This option displays all the files in the tree view even the ones that are filtered out with the reason why they were excluded See below E T Sync Preview gt F sy MO A Sync ie alumns Log Close Click Show All button to Local display also files and Remote Extra 2 Name folders that are filtered out ect Name Transfer Reason Ste Li _notes Library Folder does not e Folder does not e Matches exclude fi Folder does not exist Templates tour TITLE HUS Leni pdf api pdf File does not exist boxshot jpg boxshot jpg File does not exist le contact_support htm contact_support htm File does not exist i count txt count txt File does not exist Le download htm download Atm File does not exist is download_batchsyncftp htm download_batchsyncttp htm File does not exist bg Source Message a 0 3 folders to create 0 58 files to transfer 96 10 MB Log Threads Sync Preview
72. e Task Editor for managing the tasks edit delete duplicate and previewing and running them The easiest way to create a new sync task is by using the Task Wizard Sync Preview You can test the sync task with Sync Preview Sync preview displays the files that would be transferred in a tree view format without actually transferring anything This helps you to test sync tasks and their options like filters You can also directly access and modify task options via a right click popup menu in the Sync Preview window Running sync tasks with Task Editor Task Editor displays a list of the task files in the selected folder You can run a sync task by selecting its icon and clicking the Sync button Thanks to the SyncDB smart file tracking feature the software knows which files have changed and transfers only the necessary files The Sync window displays the progress of the transfer and provides a report on all the files transferred and statistics about the transfer History log The global run history log contains run info and statistics about all of the sync tasks that were run on SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Getting Started 15 that computer You can view this history log by clicking the History button on the left hand side of the main window This log is shared by all tasks Running sync tasks in batch mode Notice Batch mode and task scheduling is ONLY available in the BatchSync product It is not ossible to s
73. e file If unselected the transfer is always restarted from the beginning of the file Firewall tab Most firewalls offer transparent connections so even when making connections through a firewall the user does not need to create any special settings for it In these cases you do not need to set any firewall related options in BatchSync If your firewall requires special treatment then the following firewall types are supported e Settings from Internet Explorer If firewall settings are defined for Internet Explorer then BatchSync can use those settings Then no other settings are required Settings in Internet Explorer are found under Tools gt Internet Options gt Connections gt LAN Settings BatchSync will use anything specified for Socks or for FTP if socks isn t specified USER user site Connect by sending username and site to connect to in USER command SITE site Issue separate SITE command when connecting OPEN site Issue separate OPEN command when connecting Simple relay Connects to predefined site using simple relay Web CONNECT Typical WEB proxy using web CONNECT command is used Socks 4 Connect using Socks4 proxy No username or password is required Socks 4a Connect using Socks4a proxy No username or password is required Socks 5 Connect using Socks5 proxy Requires username or password Timeouts tab All timeout and delay values are in seconds Connect timeout Time to wait for connect to succeed befo
74. e separated with semicolons and note that there are NO spaces between them The last entry is without any path This filter will exclude the _Notes folder and all other folders that start with the _ character like _System Comments etc You can later read more about filters and pattern matching Click the Save button to save your changes and close this window Now you are back in the Sync Preview window Add Thumbs db exclude filter Scroll down to the Thumbs db file in the Sync Preview window Right click on it and select Exclude Thumbs db from the list This time we selected the filename WITHOUT any path as we want to exclude this file in all folders SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 30 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP Edit Task Add File to Include Filter Thumbs db Add File to Include Filter C WebRoot Thumbs db Add File to Include Filter httpdocs Thumbs db Add File to Exclude Filter Thumbs db Add File to Exclude Filter C WwebRoot Thumbs db x Add File to Exclude Filter fhttpdocs Thumbs db The Edit Task window opens and the Thumbs db text is automatically appended to the exclude text field y Edit Task D sync Help Tasks Upload WebSite stf You need to select this check box to turn exclude filtering on The file name was added automatically to the text field Sync Options I Include Exclude Comparison Conflicts Logs Email I Verifica
75. e wildcard characters in the filters use full partial or no path etc Read more here Folder name matches filter entered below By default no folders are excluded from the sync If you want to exclude one or more folders select this check box and enter a list of folder names to be excluded from the sync Separate multiple folder names with semicolons You can use wildcard characters in the filters use full partial or no path etc Read more here Exclude filtering by file size date amp attributes All filters in this tab are ANDed together so in order for a file to be excluded from the sync it must match all the filters that are active checked The full formula is EXCLUDE FILENAME AND SIZE AND DATE AND FILE ATTRIBUTES ORed together File size is When checked the file size is compared to this filter value Enter the size as bytes 1024 Bytes 1 Kilobyte KB 1048576 Bytes 1 Megabyte MB 1073741824 Bytes 1 Gigabyte GB File changed When checked the file time stamp is compared to this filter value Use the day s ago option to enter longer periods of time like 7 Days 1 Week 14 Days 2 Weeks 21 Days 3 Weeks 30 Days 4 Weeks or 1 Month 60 Days 2 Months 90 Days 3 Months or 1 Quarter 365 Days 1 Year 730 Days 2 Years 1095 Days 3 Years File date is between When checked the file time stamp must be between these two values SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 96
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77. ed to run the sync process when setting up the schedule Scheduling multiple tasks simultaneously You can schedule multiple separate sync tasks to be run simultaneously Each of these tasks can make multiple simultaneous connections to the server multithreaded The number of simultaneous tasks is limited by the available computer memory RAM Task Scheduler makes sure that it does not start the next instance of the same task before an earlier one is completed Therefore you can schedule a task to be executed every 5 mins even if it sometimes takes 12 mins to run Task Scheduler then runs it when the earlier instance has finished Related Getting started in 5 minutes Step by step instructions creating a new sync task Step by step instructions scheduling a task Scheduling and batch files SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 16 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP 4 2 Getting started in 5 minutes In this short tutorial we create a new sync task for uploading the content of a local folder to an FTP server Usually this kind of sync task is used to update a website or create off line backups This sync task will upload all new and changed files to the FTP server making the source and target folders identical About Sync Tasks BatchSync stores all of the information needed to run a sync in a sync task file This file contains the source and target folders the server address login username password and all of
78. eduler to run sync tasks at regular intervals To schedule a You must specify what action this task will perform task you need to create a new entry in Windows Task Scheduler Please click Help button for complete instructions j Action XP and Server 2003 Windows 8 x 7 Vista and Server 2008 2012 er Start a program v Settings To start Windows Task Scheduler Click Start menu gt All Programs gt Accessories gt System 3 Tools gt Task Scheduler Program script Copy amp paste this text to Windows Task Scheduler at Program script field C Program Files BatchSyne Secure sync exe ro C Program Files BatchSync Secure sync exe Browse Copy amp paste this text to Windows Task Scheduler at Add Arguments field Add argu j C ProgramData Sync sample Uploa C ProgramD ata Sync sample Upload WebSite stf opy Start in optional Click OK to save the changes Step 6 Save changes Click the OK button to save your changes to the schedule entry Windows will now prompt you to enter account information for running this task Now BatchSync is run every 15 minutes with the Upload WebSite stf as a parameter You can modify the Upload WebSite stf task options in the BatchSync Task Editor while its entry in the Windows Task Scheduler will remain set until you delete the task from the Windows Task Scheduler You can monitor the scheduled sync task execution i
79. efault file transfer action in BatchSync is a sync It is same as copy but transfers only files that have changed since the last sync minimizing the time and bandwidth required for the file transfer But sometimes you might just want to copy or move files not sync and BatchSync can do that easily by changing few task options SyncDB Advanced tracking for all file additions changes and deletions It s usually difficult to compare files and track changes on a remote FTP server because the file sizes SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Introducing BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP 5 and dates are usually modified when the files are uploaded to the FTP server BatchSync uses the smart SyncDB feature to track changes to files allowing it to automatically know which files need to be transferred SyncDB also allows software to properly track file deletions in two way syncs and propagate these deletions to the other side Combined with multithreaded file transfers and on the fly compression this results in the fastest way to keep folders in sync Features Save sync source and target folders with options as a sync task e Run sync tasks with a single mouse click Sync Preview Display files that will be transferred in tree view without actually transferring anything SyncDB tracks changes to files automatically Multithreaded transfers to speed up the sync On the fly file compression to accelerate transfers One
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81. ermined by your system settings Display the date as ddddd and display the time as ttttt in that order Display only date information if there is no fractional part to the date serial number display only time information if there is no integer portion Display the day as a number without a leading zero 1 31 dd Display the day as a number with a leading zero 01 31 ddd Display the day as an abbreviation Sun Sat dddd Display the day as a full name Sunday Saturday ddddd Display the date as a complete date including day month and year formatted according to your system s short date format setting The default short date format is m d yy dddddd Display a date serial number as a complete date including day month and year formatted according to the long date setting recognized by your system The default long date format is mmmm dd yyyy Display the day of the week as a number 1 for Sunday through 7 for Saturday Display the week of the year as a number 1 54 Display the month as a number without a leading zero 1 12 If m immediately follows h or hh the minute rather than the month is displayed mm Display the month as a number with a leading zero 01 12 If m immediately follows h or hh the minute rather than the month is displayed mmm Display the month as an abbreviation Jan Dec mmmm Display the month as
82. erver to BatchSync Almost always blocked by firewalls Nowadays firewalls are everywhere and they usually block connections from the internet to a computer behind a firewall Therefore PORT mode does not work well in this kind of environment Some servers are set up so that they only support PORT mode Or they only support PASSIVE mode A majority of them support either There is no performance penalty or any other difference when choosing one mode over the other So select the mode that works most often passive mode works better Use following Active mode port range min max Defines port range in use when Data connection mode Active mode PORT is selected Most often you need to set port range to allow FTP S traffic pass through your firewall you also need to configure your firewall to allow inbound traffic for this port range Enter minimum and maximum port numbers for data connection These port numbers are not used when Passive mode PASV is selected File transfer mode The FTP protocol supports two different modes to transfers files ASCII and Binary The ASCII mode makes automatic translations to text files and is the most appropriate mode to transfer text files like html text and log files The Binary mode transfers files as is without any changes This is for binary files like executables pictures databases etc Now you might think why not send everything as binary since then files are not altered at all during the tr
83. es Click the OK button to save your changes to the schedule entry Now BatchSync is run every 15 minutes with the Upload WebSite stf task as a parameter You can modify the Upload WebSite stf task options in the BatchSync Task Editor while its entry in Windows Task Scheduler will remain set until you delete the task from Windows Task Scheduler Windows Task Scheduler has its own logging function so if you have problems with it select the menu Advanced gt View Log command in the Windows Task Scheduler main window NOTE Locate the Most recent entry is above this line line in the Windows task scheduler log file to find the latest entry in the log This is not necessarily at the end of the file unlike in BatchSync logs where the most recent entry is always at the end of the file End of Tutorial This is the end of the tutorial Start playing with the software by creating you own tasks And remember you can safely run Sync Preview for any task you choose as no files are ever transferred and no folders are created with preview Recommended reading We recommend that you read the help page about tracking features of SyncDB This will give you insight into what s going on behind the scenes in BatchSync SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 44 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP 5 3 Related e Batch files and scheduling e Sync exe command line parameters Command line batch files and scheduling See t
84. es not exist File does not exist File does not exist File does not exist File does not exist File does not exist m Reason why file will be transferred Source Message 0 0 7 folders to create 0 73 files to transfer 159 73 MB Log Threads Sync Preview completed successfully 73 files 159 73 MB to transfer and 7 other operations to perform Transfer statistics number of files that will be transferred SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 28 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP 4 3 6 Everything looks quite good All the files are there but there are some extra ones In the start of this tutorial we listed some folders that we don t want to transfer So we want to filter out the _notes Library and Templates folders and the Thumbs db file from all folders To filter out files and folders we need to add an Exclude filter to this task Next Step Editing a task adding filters Editing a task adding filters To add a filter to the task while the Sync Preview window is open right click the mouse on top of Templates folder The following popup menu is displayed W Sync Preview gt A Y On Minimize Ti Sync Show All Transfers Errors Columns Log Close Local Remote Extra Name Direct Name Transfer Reason St z B C WebRoot Mttpdocs _notes gt _notes Folder d
85. es not exist Folder does not exist Folder does not exist File does not exist File does not exist File does not exist File does not exist Doesn t match include Folder does not exist Folder does not exist File does not exist File does not exist Folder does not exist File does not exist File does not exist File does not exist Folder does not exist File does not exist File does not exist File does not exist File does not exist File does not exist Sync Preview completed successfully 18 files 2 57 MB to transfer and 8 other operations to perform Now results look correct and only d webroot html d webroot logs and d webroot pics folders with their subfolders were transferred Related e Exclude files and folders filter sample Filter sample Exclude Files and Folders We have a backup sync task that downloads files from the remote server folder to the local folder The sync task set up looks like this Source website Target C Backup website When this sync task is run without any filters by default all files and folders are included and nothing is excluded But with this backup sync task we do not want to download following files and folders SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual d pics D gt customer1 jpg customer2 jpg amp general Er system LE admin jpg i user jpg __access log boxshot jpg logo g
86. es transferred for each sync run by clicking the Log text link for the selected task Next Step Reference Manual Scheduling a task SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 36 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP Reference Manual Sync vs Copy vs Move files The default file transfer action in BatchSync is a sync It is same as copy but transfers only files that have changed since the last sync minimizing the time and bandwidth required for the file transfer But sometimes you might want to just copy files not sync and BatchSync can do that easily by changing few task options Convert a sync task into a copy task Start by creating a sync task with Task Wizard After wizard completes Then Uncheck Use SyncDB file check box Ph Save changes and you are done Select task you just created and then Edit Task gt Comparison tab Uncheck Compare dates and Compare size check boxes The sync task is now a copy task as there is no date size comparison when transferring files but all files are transferred r amp Edit Task D sync Tasks Upload WebSite stf Syne Options Include Exclude Comparison Conflicts Logs Email Verification SyncDB Use SyncDB file SyncDB file is used for tracking changes to the files SyncDB monitors the changes to the file s date and size and makes it possible to accurately transfer only files that have changed since the last
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88. ested value UNIX style path names Some 95 of all FTP servers out there use UNIX style path names This means that if you do not know how your server is configured it is the safest to assume that it is using UNIX syntax for all path names This syntax denotes that all sub folders are separated by the forward slash character like this pub html pub http docs bin etc httpd this is long path with multiple sub folders Windows DOS style path names SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 56 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP All Windows computers use DOS style path names for local and network operations This syntax denotes that all sub folders are separated by the backslash character the network shares UNC paths start with two backslashes and local path names start with a drive letter and a character like this pub html server pub http docs c bin etc httpd z this is long path with multiple sub folders Even though an FTP server might be running on Windows and the server is for example a Microsoft IIS FTP server it most likely DOES NOT use DOS syntax for FTP commands Instead most IIS servers mimic UNIX servers and use UNIX style path names for all FTP operations You can check the syntax that a specific server uses for folder names by connecting to it with an FTP client Browse to the server folder you will use in the sync task and look at how the FTP client displays the current folder n
89. from the sync task file Basic syntax In the simplest form you can execute a sync task by passing a sync task filename as command line parameter like this Sync C Tasks DownloadFiles stf NOTE To run Sync exe without path first change to folder where it is installed default folder is BatchSync or BatchSync Secure folder under Program Files This command runs the sync and output on the console looks something like this D Program Files BatchSync gt sync C Tasks DownloadFiles stf Sync task C Tasks DownloadFiles stf Direction OneWayDownload Source pub logs Target d backup logs Recursive Yes Symlinks No Sync task loaded Running STATISTICS No action 25 Errors 0 SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 48 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP Average transfer speed 5 899 2 KB s Average transfer bandwidth usage w 12 packet protocol overhead 53093 1 Kbps Total time 39 secs Transfer time 38 secs Total bytes transferred 220 71 MB 231435723 bytes Transferred 3 files Sync completed OK Sync OK Exit code 0 D sync gt _ Overriding sync task settings with command line parameters Sync exe initially loads the sync task settings from the task filename that is passed on the command line You can override these settings by passing optional command line parameters see the list of the available parameters above This is handy if you need to synchr
90. ge after a sync completes with no errors This email message contains task statistics like the number of files transferred the time taken and the average transfer soeed You can modify the email subject and content with the options described below An email is sent whether files were transferred or not Send email after successfully completed sync run Only if files were transferred The same as above but an email is sent only if one or more files were transferred Send email after sync run completes with errors BatchSync sends a Sync Errors email message after a sync completes with errors The email message contains task statistics like the number of files transferred the time taken and the average transfer speed SMTP Host address Enter the SMTP server name or IP address E g smtp my_isp com or smtp gmail com SMTP Port Enter the SMTP server port for connection Default values are e Connection security None default port 25 e Connection security SSL default port 465 e Connection security STARTTLS default port 587 Timeout Time in seconds BatchSync tries to send an email before giving up The default value is 15 seconds You can disable timeout by setting this value to 0 BatchSync will then wait forever so this value is not really recommended Instead use a larger timeout if the server is very heavily loaded like 600 seconds Use authentication Enable this if your SMTP server requires authentication ESMTP
91. gramData Sync UploadWeb Stf B c C Program Files BatchSync Sync C ProgramData Sync UploadWeb Stf H www7 company com B c ProgramData Sync www7 sdb C Program Files BatchSync Sync C ProgramData Sync UploadWeb Stf H www8 company com B c ProgramData Sync www8 sdb C Program Files BatchSync Sync C ProgramData Sync UploadWeb Stf SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 49 H www9 company com B c ProgramData Sync www9 sdb C Program Files BatchSync Sync C ProgramData Sync UploadWeb Stf H www10 company com B c ProgramData Sync wwwl0 sdb Here we pass two overriding command line parameters H www8 company com This H parameter overrides host address of the server B c ProgramData Sync www10 sdb This B parameter overrides the SyncDB filename Quotes are required The B parameter is required for all command line calls if any of the sync task settings are overridden by command line parameters This parameter tells where SyncDB tracking file info is written to and where it is loaded from Now you can sync all 10 servers by running UploadWebSites bat or by scheduling the executions of this bat file in Windows Task Scheduler If you later need to modify any task settings you only need to make a single change to UploadWeb Sif file and same change is used for all servers Example 2 You need to download multip
92. hanges to the server When you need to further fine tune the sync options select the sync task in the Task Editor window and click the Edit Task button You can find more information about editing a task and setting up file filtering in the Step by step instructions tutorial 4 3 Step by step instructions 4 3 1 Creating a new sync task If you are just getting started with BatchSync we recommend that you create your first sync task with the Task Wizard You can find more information about it here In this step by step tutorial we create a new sync task for uploading a local web site to an FTP server In this scenario we are building and editing a web site locally in the C WebRoot folder All additions and changes we want to make to the web site are made to this local copy and then we use the BatchSync sync task to upload changes to the FTP server to the web site root folder In this way we can test the changes locally before actually publishing them to the Internet BatchSync makes sure that all new and modified files are successfully uploaded when it s time to publish new info to the net SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 22 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP 4 3 2 Task Details First we need to collect some background information about files folders and server connection parameters All source files are under the local folder C WebRoot It contains numerous subfolders that we want to be included in the sync Sou
93. hat your actually connecting to the correct host over a secure connection Though most of the time this is harmless it can be an indication of an issue 5 18 7 FTPS tab SSL Certificate Validation When BatchSync client makes a connection to the FTPS server server sends its certificate to the SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 114 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP client This SSL certificate is used to encrypt all data transferred between client and server and it also identifies the server When these certificates are signed by a trusted certificate authority this provides assurance that the client is connected to the requested server avoiding a man in the middle attack If the certificate is not signed by a trusted CA called a self signed certificate the client cannot be sure about servers identity Following options control how BatchSync behaves when processing received server certificate It should be noted that regardless what kind of certificate is presented to the client FTPS connections are always encrypted So the level of encryption is not affected by status of the certificate whether it s signed by CA self signed revoked etc Accept any certificate but display a warning When this option is selected BatchSync accepts any certificate but displays a warning message when running a sync The certificate can be signed by CA or self signed or expired or revoked etc This option should NEVER be used
94. he page Scheduling a task for step by step instructions on how to schedule a sync task using Windows Task Scheduler Running a sync from the command line BatchSync includes multithreaded command line software Sync exe that is used to run sync tasks in the unattended mode Sync exe does not have any user interface but it updates history log and creates extra log files that you can use to track the files it transfers and it can optionally send reports and error logs via email To run a sync task from the command line change to the BatchSync install folder and enter Sync C Tasks UploadWebSite STF This command loads the UploadWebSite STF task file and performs the sync process using the parameters and options defined in the task file It then terminates You can override many sync task settings by passing them as command line parameters like this Sync C Tasks UploadWebSite STF S C Upload T var upload N 8 B c temp setl sdb You can learn more about command line parameters here Batch Files Sometimes it s most convenient to run a sync task by double clicking an icon on the desktop This can be done with a one line batch file that runs sync exe with a sync task filename as a parameter You need to supply the full path to both the executable and sync task files and add quotes around the executable filename if the path to it contains any spaces like this c Program Files BatchSync Sync C Tasks Sync CA office STF Crea
95. heduled batch runs Both pieces of software come in two different flavors FTP and Secure FTPS SFTP editions The FTP edition supports the de facto standard for internet file transfers FTP The Secure FTPS SFTP edition adds support for secure FTP transfers using SSL encryption known as FTPS FTP SSL or FTP over SSL It also supports folder synchronization using SFTP service over the SSH2 protocol Here is a table that summarizes the features of the different versions and editions SiteDesigner Technologies Inc BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP in tree view Fast Multithreaded operation max 10 threads max 10 threads max 25 threads max 25 threads Feature InstantSync FTP InstantSync BatchSync FTP BatchSync Secure Secure FTPS SFTP FTPS SFTP Task Editor software for creating and Yes Yes Yes Yes managing sync tasks Sync folders with single mouse click Yes Yes Yes Yes SyncDB automatically handles file time Yes Yes Yes Yes size and time zone differences between local and server disks Sync Preview show files to be transferred Yes Yes Yes Yes One way syncs make target identical with Yes Yes Yes Yes source Two way syncs transfers newer files in Yes Yes Yes Yes either direction Include filters Yes Yes Yes Yes Exclude filters Yes Yes Yes Yes Filter by file folder name size date Yes Yes Yes Yes modified attributes Use regular expressions in fil
96. his option enabled the files that do not exist on the source are also deleted on the target In this way the target is an exact copy of the source Notice You can easily convert a sync task into a file copy task or file move task Learn more here Two way sync Two way sync ensures that two folders and their subfolders remain in sync when files are changed on both sides BatchSync does this by scanning all of the files in the source and target folders and locating the new and changed files on both sides It then transfers all of the files that are newer than the corresponding files on the other side You can optionally enable propagated deletions see the Options tab With this option enabled if you delete a file on one side BatchSync will propagate this deletion to the other side by deleting this same file on the other side In this way both sides contain exactly the same set of files Source and Target The available source and target types are e Local or Network folder The folder is accessible via a local or network path like C WebRoot or Server SharedFolder e FTP FTPS and SFTP Server The folder is accessible via an FTP server FTP FTP server with SSL encryption FTPS or SSH2 server using the SFTP protocol The following transfer combinations are possible e Local or Network folder lt gt FTP FTPS or SFTP Server e FTP FTPS or SFTP Server lt gt Local or Network folder Notice The support for FT
97. ict occurs perform action specified above and write line to the error log When checked an error message is written to the error log stating the name of the folder and of the conflicting file Locked files Locked files are files that are currently open and in use by some other program or by operating system Therefore they cannot be opened and uploaded With this setting you can control how locked files are handled Report locked files as an error Software tries to upload a file and if it is locked it will flag this file having an error You will see the task run in the history pane with ERROR flagging Do not report locked files as an error just skip them Software tries to upload a file and if it is locked it will not flag this file with an error but instead it will skip it and write a warning message to the transfer log You will see the task run in the history pane with OK flagging NOTE Both options will try to open locked file as many times as specified in Edit Task gt Edit Server gt Timeouts gt Retry count max value And it will have Edit Task gt Edit Server gt Timeouts gt Transfer retry delay secs between each retry Read only and hidden files When checked BatchSync will reset read only and hidden file attributes to allow file to be downloaded Otherwise file download will result in an error to be generated Logs tab BatchSync tasks are often run unattended by the Windows Task Scheduler Therefore i
98. if main jpg 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 pics pics customer pics customer customer1 jpg pics customer customer2 jpg pics general pics generalicart gif pics generalininus gif pics general plus gif pics system pics system admin jpg pics system user jpg pics access log pics boxshot jpg picsJogo gif pics main jpg FE gt Sync Preview po 2 gt F S OA Sync Show All Transfers Errors Columns Log Close boc Remote Jesa Name Direction Name Transfer Reason Status B N Folder does not exist a ry html htm Folder does not exist about html e htmi about html File does not exist index html lt htmlindex html File does not exist products html htmliproducts html File does not exist Sd htsys htsys Folder does not exist _Jadmin dev htsys admin dev File does not exist LJ system dev htsys system dev File does not exist B p logs logs Folder does not exist html e logs html Folder does not exist 2014_12_01 html logshtml 201 4_12_01 html File does not exist je 2014_12_02 html e logshtml 201 4_12_02 html File does not exist 2014_12_01 log logs 2014_12_01 log File does not exist E 2014_12_02log 4 logs 2014_12_02 log File does not exist php php Folder does not exist _ customer php 4 php customer php File does not exist email php Ka php email php File does not exist L_phplog 4 php php log File does not exist _ search php php search
99. igner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 93 Two way sync propagate file folder deletions on one side to the other side This option can be used to enable true bi directional syncs When enabled BatchSync tracks the deletions on both sides and repeats any deletion made on one side on the other side Number of threads BatchSync is multithreaded software This means that it can make multiple simultaneous connections to the server to transfer multiple files in parallel This normally greatly increases the speed of transfers and reduces the time needed to run a sync task Normally 4 to 6 threads give the best performance but you can experiment with different values to find the optimum setting for your case The optimum value is dependent on various factors like network speed server load server configuration network roundtrip latencies etc e In InstantSync the maximum number of threads is 10 e In BatchSync the maximum number of threads is 25 read note below Notice In BatchSync the max number of threads is 25 But when running sync task in Task Editor the number of threads is limited to 10 Therefore to utilize the maximum number of threads use the command line SYNC EXE tool to run sync tasks Notice Some servers do not allow more than one connection from one computer single IP address In that case set this value to 1 5 17 3 Include tab Include filtering by file folder name Match case
100. ile is NOT transferred nor deleted if the same file still exists on the target This is because the software by default synchronizes files i e transfers them ONLY if identical files do not already exist on the target If this is not what you want but instead you want to transfer and delete files on every sync run then you can go to Edit Task gt Comparison tab gt Uncheck Use SyncDB check box gt Uncheck Compare Dates check box With these changes no comparisons are made and all of the files that show up in the C OutBox are always moved to the InBox SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 92 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP To automate this hot folder synchronization you need to schedule the sync task to be run by the Windows Task Scheduler every Nth minute With this kind of schedule the sync task is run even when no new files are found in the source folder However this does not matter since in that case no transfers or deletions are performed This option cannot be used together with Delete extra files on the target or Move source files to archive folder options One way sync move source files to archive folder after successful transfer When checked it moves files on the source after they have been 100 successfully transferred to the archive folder Files are not moved on the source if they are not 100 fully transferred to the target You can use date variables in archive folder name to make it
101. in file folder name filters When checked compares file and folder names in a case sensitive manner So INDEX HTML is not considered the same as index html When not checked the filename INDEX HTML index html Index Html InDeX HtMI File name matches filter entered below By default all files are included in the sync If you want to select a subset of files select this check box and enter a list of filenames to be included in the sync Separate multiple filenames with semicolons You can use wildcard characters in filters use full partial or no path etc Read more here Folder name matches filter entered below By default all folders are included in the sync If you want to select a subset of folders select this check box and enter a list of folder names to be included in the sync Separate multiple folder names with semicolons You can use wildcard characters in the filters use full partial or no path etc Read more here Include filtering by file size date amp attributes SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 94 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP 5 17 4 All filters in this tab are ANDed together so in order for a file to be included in the sync it must match all the filters that are active checked The full formula is INCLUDE FILENAME AND SIZE AND DATE AND FILE ATTRIBUTES ORed together File size is When checked the file size is compared to this filter value Enter the size as bytes 1024 By
102. iness day it s Monday e NEXT_BUSDAY 6 22 2014 the next business day after Monday is Tuesday and if today was 6 26 2014 Saturday these variables would be evaluated to e PREV_BUSDAY 6 25 2014 the previous business day before Saturday is Friday e BUSDAY 6 25 2014 the current day is not a business day so this evaluates to the previous SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 58 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP business day Friday e NEXT_BUSDAY 6 28 2014 the next business day after Saturday is Monday Formatting The variables with formatting are very versatile and you can use them to create dates and times ina variety of formats The following table shows how the yymmdd portion of the TODAY yymmd4d string can be used to create custom date strings SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 59 Format Description Time separator In some locales other characters may be used to represent the time separator The time separator separates hours minutes and seconds when time values are formatted The actual character used as the time separator in formatted output is determined by your system settings Date separator In some locales other characters may be used to represent the date separator The date separator separates the day month and year when date values are formatted The actual character used as the date separator in formatted output is det
103. ing all shadow copies with the SnapshotSetID e6b9617c 6e02 461b 8b76 a164 399beaa SNAPSHOT ID f50514b6 1208 4d42 88a4 e822311f2d2f Shadow copy Set e6b9617c 6e02 461b 8b76 a164e399beaa Original count of shadow copies 1 Original Volume name Volume 341603aa 9a4f 11dc 9040 806e6f6e6963 C Creation Time 20 1 2011 12 19 49 Shadow copy device name GLOBALROOT Device HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy23 Originating machine Kannettava Service machine Kannettava Not Exposed Provider id b5946137 7b9f 4925 af80 51abd60b20d5 Attributes No Auto Release Persistent Differential Generating the SETVAR script setvar cmd Mark all writers as successfully backed up Completing the backup BackupComplete Waiting for the asynchronous operation to finish Waiting for the asynchronous operation to finish Snapshot creation done Now snapshot for C is created Execute setvar cmd The previous call to VSHADOW EXE also created a setvar cmd file look at the command line script parameter execute it like this C Program Files BatchSync Secure gt setvar This script is generated by VSHADOW EXE for the shadow set e6b9617c 6e02 461b 8b76 al64e399beaa C Program Files BatchSync Secure gt SET SHADOW_SET_ID e6b9617c 6e02 461b 8b76 al64e399beaa C Program Files BatchSync Secure gt SET SHADOW_ID_1 50514b6 1208 4d42 88a4 e822
104. inish button to save the new task Step 9 The new sync task has now been created and is shown in the Task Editor Select it and start Sync Preview to make sure that the new sync task performs the way it should No files are transferred when doing a sync preview E BatchSync Secure Task Editor gt Task View Tools Help Test Development s2 3 8 2 a New Wizard Edit Duplicate Delete Preview Sync Schedule Logs Options Folder DA Select Folder Show Icons List Details Upload Files stf CAP NUM SCRL SiteDesigner Technologies Inc BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP Step 10 A list of the files that will be transferred is shown after the preview is done You can see the transfer statistics in the Log pane To perform the actual sync and upload files click the Sync button on the toolbar r Sync Preview gt 2 2 f 9 01 Syne Show All Transfers Errors Columns Log Close Local Remote Estra A Name Size Modified Dir Name Size Modified Transfer Reason a C WebRoot 0 00 00 CS 0 00 00 LE _notes 26 3 2014 11 36 44 _notes 0 00 00 Folder does not exist ab dnl 26 3 2014 12 29 36 dnl 0 00 00 Folder does not exist e company htm 9308 1122014 4 00 00 companyhtm 0 0 00 00 File does not exist e contact htm 7849 11 2 2014 4 00 00 contacthtm 0 0 00 00 File does not exist contact_support htm 11299 11 2
105. ins FTP protocol commands sent to the server by BatchSync and responses from the FTP server This log is mostly needed when troubleshooting the sync tasks Enable error logging The error log contains all file transfer warnings and errors If no warnings or errors occur during the sync run then this file is not created In other words if this file is created then there are one or more warnings error messages in the file Email tab Notice Email notifications are ONLY available in the BatchSync product It is not possible to send email notifications with InstantSync BatchSync can send an email notification after a sync run completes In order to receive notifications you must enter the proper values in these fields If you cannot remember the correct values for an SMTP server take a look at the settings for your email client Outlook Thunderbird Eudora etc The proper values for the SMTP server can be found there SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 100 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP You can also use SMTP server of many free email providers like Gmail and Yahoo for sending emails In cases where sync tasks are run unattended as scheduled it is often necessary to be notified if a sync task fails You can get this kind of notification by enabling the Send email after sync run completes with errors option Send email after successfully completed sync run Always BatchSync sends a Sync OK email messa
106. is current directory Get directory listing LogFiles CLIENT TYPE A SERVER 200 Type set to A CLIENT CWD LogFiles SERVER 250 CWD successful LogFiles is current directory CLIENT SIZE k9410enx exe SERVER 213 69711200 CLIENT PASV SERVER 227 Entering Passive Mode 127 0 0 1 13 178 SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 54 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP 5 5 CLIENT RETR dbsysadmin dat ERVER 150 Connection accepted ERVER 226 Transfer OK un un STATISTICS No action 25 Errors 0 Average transfer speed 6 369 2 KB s Average transfer bandwidth usage w 12 packet protocol overhead 57322 9 Kbps Total time 36 secs Transfer time 35 secs Total bytes transferred 220 71 MB 231435723 bytes Transferred 3 files Sync completed OK Sync OK Exit code 0 D sync gt _ Related e Scheduling a task e Batch files and scheduling Windows Event Log Windows event logs are special files that record significant events on your computer such as when a user logs on to the computer or when a program encounters an error Whenever these types of events occur Windows records the event in an event log that you can read by using Event Viewer BatchSync writes all sync run results to the Windows event log Events contain following information 1 Syn
107. iss txt Kiss txt and Miss txt Picture jpg Picture01 jpg Picture02 jpg Picture08 jpg etc 2014 01 log 2014 01 01 log 2014 01 02 log 2014 01 log 2014 01 Month log etc php asp aspx Forum php Calc asp SaveToDB aspx Similarly you can use wildcard characters in folder name filters Entering full partial and no paths File and folder names are most commonly entered without a path This way they can match file folder names in all folders Sometimes it is necessary to limit a filter to certain folders like in the following case Sync task is to from C WebRoot gt pub public Case 1 Almost all folders contain the Thumbs db file which we do not want to include in the sync Case 2 C WebRoot Scripts contains PHP script files that we do not want to include in the sync Case 3 C WebRoot usr db contains db files that we do not want to include the sync Case 4 C WebRoot system logs folder contains files and subfolders that we do not want to include in the sync at all To exclude these files and folders we need to create the following exclude filter File name matches Thumbs db C WebRoot Scripts php C WebRoot usr db db Folder name matches C WebRoot system logs Here we used full paths in the filters We could also have used partial filters paths with characters like this File name matches Thumbs db Scripts php db db Folder name matches system logs But here the folder name filte
108. key pair in step 1 NOTE Click Load private key button to verify that the private key can be loaded successfully NOTE A login password in General tab is not used or needed on logins when public key authentication is enabled SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 82 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP 5 15 6 Ready Test sync task by running the sync preview to verify that login works properly Alternatively you can generate the key pair on your ssh server You can also use public private key pair that was generated on your ssh server Following instructions are for linux mint but quite similar steps can be followed on other linux servers to generate key pair Create ssh directory under your home directory if it does not already exist mkdir ssh chmod 700 ssh cd ssh Generate key pair ssh keygen t rsa Add public key to authorized_keys file cat id_rsa pub gt gt authorized_keys Download private key Download private key to the computer running BatchSync and save it to C ProgramData Sync SSH2 folder After that you should delete private key on the server Load it to the sync task for use Edit sync task to use public key authentication as shown above in step 5 Task Optimizer File transfer speed is dependent on many factors like network connection speed round trip latency server load and client load to name a few BatchSync has a Buffer Size setting that can greatly affect the transfer s
109. l address To email address The notification email is sent to this email address You can enter multiple addresses by separating them with commas Examples you company com netadmin yourcompany net me here com you there org him elsewhere net Subject This field is used as an email subject line You can use the following variables to create a subject line that best fits Your needs SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 102 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP Variable Description STAT_TASK_FILENAME Sync task filename without path like Backup stf STAT_TASK_FILENAME_WITHPATH Sync task filename with full path like C tasks Backup stf STAT_STATUS Sync status OK or Errors STAT_STATUS_MSG Sync status Sync OK or Sync Errors STAT_NO_ACTION Number of files or folder with no action they were already in sync like 123 STAT_ERRORS Number of errors like error connecting transferring creating a folder etc STAT_FILES_TRANSFERRED Number of files transferred like 123 STAT_FILES_DELETED Number of files deleted like 123 STAT_FOLDERS_CREATED Number of folders created like 123 STAT_FOLDERS_DELETED Number of folders deleted like 123 STAT_ALL_OPERATIONS Total number of all operations like 123 STAT_TRANSFER_TIME File transfer time not including the time taken by sync preview like 35 secs ST
110. l_OK ECHO First sync OK running second sync Sync d Tasks Upload2SSH stf IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO Sync2_Errors IF ERRORLEVEL 0 GOTO Sync2_OK Syncl_Errors ECHO Syncl errors exiting batch file GOTO Exit Sync2_Errors ECHO Sync2 errors GOTO Exit Sync2_OK ECHO Second sync OK Exit Notice The IF ERRORLEVEL testing in batch files must be done in the order shown above testing for larger numbers first because the IF ERRORLEVEL 0 test also evaluates as true for error level 1 In the other words the IF ERRORLEVEL 0 test is really IF ERRORLEVEL gt 0 not IF ERRORLEVEL 0 as one might think Monitoring tasks You can monitor sync task execution in the History pane of the main window This history is updated after a sync task completes with information like the status code and statistics for the sync run SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 46 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP 5 4 Scheduling a Batch File When you need to run a sequence of tasks on a schedule first create a batch bat file as shown above and then schedule the execution of this batch file with Windows task scheduler as shown on the Scheduling a task page Related e Scheduling a task e Sync exe command line parameters Sync exe command line parameters Syntax Here is a list of all available command line parameters You can also see this list by running SYNC EXE without
111. le automatic log file rotation when file size reaches a certain maximum limit This way you do not need to delete log files manually and have the latest log info always available Cancel Help Click Save button to save changes There are three different log types that can be generated e Transfer Log List of files transferred for each run Write a list of files transferred to this file and start a new file every day Write to log file until its size reaches 5000KBs 5 MBs Write always to same file e FTP Cmd Log List of client commands to FTP server and the server s responses to them Normally needed for troubleshooting e Error Log List of all files that were not transferred Also includes warnings about files that were retried not transferred properly in first try but finally transferred successfully after one or more retries You can see that filenames include signs These are for macros that are used in the log filenames The macros are evaluated at run time and are used to add information such as date stamps to filenames You can click the T button to see what a log filename will look like after all the macros are evaluated more about macros and log files here Now we are finally ready click the Save button to save changes made to the task Next Step Previewing again to check the results Related SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 32 BatchSync Secur
112. le folders from the server And then upload some folders to the same server 1 First create a Transfer Stf sync task in Task Editor Set up this one way download sync task with e Source Host server company com e Source Folder var temp e Target Folder C temp 2 Test sync task in Task Editor After everything works OK create Transfer bat file like this CD c Program Files BatchSync Sync C ProgramData Sync Transfer Stf S var database T c backup db B c SyncDB Set1 sdb Sync C ProgramData Sync Transfer Stf S var www logs T c backup logs B c SyncDB Set2 sdb Sync C ProgramData Sync Transfer sStf S etc init d T c backup conf STODAY yymmdd B c SyncDB Set3 sdb Sync C ProgramData Sync Transfer Stf D OneWayUpload S c website T htdocs B c SyncDB Set4 sdb Sync C ProgramData Sync Transfer Stf D OneWayUpload S sysl projects T htdocs prj B c SyncDB Set5 sdb Here we pass following overriding command line parameters S var database S parameter overrides source folder T c backup db T parameter overrides target folder D OneWayUpload D parameter overrides sync task direction B c SyncDB Set1 sdb B parameter overrides SyncDB filename Note again Remember to pass unique SyncDB filename with B switch to all Sync exe calls that override any sync task settings SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 50 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP
113. les 3 80 MB to transfer and LL other operations to perform In other words we want to transfer only c webroot html c webroot logs and c webroot pics folders You can do this by creating an Include Folders filter like this 1 Run Sync Preview 2 On Sync Preview window right click on top of the html folder name and select Add Folder to Include i Filter command from the popup menu like this SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual F al gt Sync Preview S gt 3 M O4 Sync Show All Errors Columns Log Close Local Remote Extra Name Direction Name Transfer Reason Status Er D iwebroot gt Uploadiwebroot Folder does not exist S p cgi bin gt cgi bin Folder does not exist a install cgi gt cgi bin nstall cgi File does not exist 7 search cgi gt egi bin search cgi File does not exist E p dev gt dev Folder does not exist _ admin dev gt dev admin dev File does not exist system dey gt devisystem dev File does not exist p html html about html gt hitml ak Edit Task download htm gt htmi de APE x ig index tml gt htmlind older to Include Filter html products htm gt htmi r Add Folder to Include Filter D webroot html Ed logs gt logs Add Folder to Include Filter Upload webroot html
114. les that were already deleted were also already fully transferred r Edit Task D syne Tasks Upload WebSite stf Sync Options Include Exclude Comparison Conflicts Logs Email Verification General Include subfolders recursively Include symbolic links One yne extra files ers on target V One way sync delete source files after successful transfer One way sync move source files to archive folder after successful transfer Archive folder Date variables Two way sync propagate file folder deletions on one side to the other side Number of threads 1 U Max transfer speed per thread No limit Icon for the task oe Default a Download Two way Servers bu To reach the maximum transfer performance it s recommended to use 4 8 1 threads for transfers If the network you are using has high round trip latencies you might want to try higher values Cancel Help Archive files after transfer You can create archive or backup copies of the source files on the source like this Select Edit Task gt Options tab Check One way sync move source files to archive folder after successful transfer check box 3 Enter Archive folder where files are moved after transfer You can and should use date variables in the archive folder name D Let s say you have a download task like this Source ftp server com OutBox gt Target C InBox And you enter Archive f
115. lete instructions si k C WINDOWS T asks Web update job XP and Server 2003 Windows 7 Vista and Server 2008 To start Windows Task Scheduler Open Windows Control Panel and double click the Scheduled Tasks icon Run d spne spne exe D sync Upload WebSite stf Copy amp paste this text to Windows Task Scheduler at Run field C Browse d sync syne exe D sync Upload WebSite stf Start in Comments Click to set password so task will be run even when ae P nobody is logged in to Run only if logged on computer V Enabled scheduled task runs at specified Step 5 Set schedule We want to run the Web update task every 15 minutes To create this schedule click the Schedule tab and click the Advanced button to set up the interval SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 43 Web update Task Schedule Settings amp t 0 00 every day starting 9 1 2006 We want to run task starting at midnight Schedule Task Start time Daily 0 00 Schedule Task Daily Every 1 day s Advanced Schedule Options Start Date 9 tammikuu ta 2006 End Date And run it until midnight Repeat task every 15th minute Every 15 minutes C Show multiple schedules Unti Time Duration hour s E minute s C If the task is still running stop it at this time i Cancel Step 6 Save chang
116. list of the deleted items is added to the history and transfer logs This option cannot be used together with Delete source files after transfer or Move source files to archive folder options One way sync delete source files after successful transfer When checked it deletes files on the source after they have been 100 successfully transferred to the target In other words it moves files from the source to the target Files are not deleted on the source if they are not 100 fully transferred to the target This feature can be used to create a hot folder sync task that will transfer all of the files in the source hot folder to the destination folder like this C OutBox gt ftp server com InBox As an example the following files are copied to the C OutBox Source C OutBox Target ftp server com InBox Backup zip Notes txt Doc ProjectPlan doc Doc Version doc Sync task is run and here are the results after the sync run Source C OutBox Target ftp server com InBox Doc empty folder is not deleted Backup zip Notes txt Doc ProjectPlan doc Doc Version doc Notice All of the files in the source subfolders are included in the operation and corresponding folders are created on the target but folders are not deleted on the source after the sync run Only the source files are deleted Notice If exactly the same file is copied again to the source and then the sync task is run the f
117. load Web Site SDB The following attributes are saved to the SyncDB file e Local file date amp time e Local file size e Remote file date amp time e Remote file size When running the sync BatchSync checks whether the SyncDB file exists for the sync task If it does the file attributes are loaded and then compared to both the local and remote files to see whether the current attributes are the same as those recorded in the SyncDB file The following comparisons are made e If Current Local file date amp time lt gt SyncDB Local file date amp time gt Local file has changed e f Current Local file size lt gt SyncDB Local file size gt Local file has changed e f Current Remote file date amp time lt gt SyncDB Remote file date amp time gt Remote file has changed e f Current Remote file size lt gt SyncDB Remote file size gt Remote file has changed These comparisons are used when deciding whether the file should be transferred and in what direction e One way sync from local gt remote upload file if either local or remote file changed e One way sync from local lt remote download file if either local or remote file changed e Two way sync local lt gt remote transfer file if either local or remote file changed transfer newer file either local or remote When SyncDB is not used You can disable SyncDB via Task options If SyncDB is disabled then files are compared using the rules set in the Comparison tab of Task o
118. n of BatchSync or InstantSync you are entitled to special upgrade pricing Please read more about this on our web site Uninstallation Click Windows Start menu gt All Programs gt BatchSync gt Uninstall SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Part IV Getting Started 14 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP 4 1 Getting Started Overview This short introduction gives you a general overview of the BatchSync components and terms Please read this first and then continue with the Getting started in 5 minutes or the more detailed Step by step instructions for creating and fine tuning a new sync task Synchronizing Folders BatchSync is designed to make folder sync as fast and simple as possible Synchronizing folders is a matter of selecting the sync task and clicking the Sync button But before this you need to create the sync task Sync Task BatchSync stores all of the information needed to run a sync in a sync task file This file contains the source and target folders the server address login username password and all of the other options for the sync task Each task is saved to a separate file with an STF extension e g UploadWebSite STF and BackupLogFiles STF Creating sync tasks with Task Editor Sync tasks are created with the Task Editor software It allows you to set up the folder names server address username password filters and other options via an easy to use interface You also us
119. n the BatchSync Task Editor gt History pane This pane is automatically updated every time a scheduled sync run completes Windows Task Scheduler has its own logging function so if you have problems with it select the task and click the History tab in the Windows Task Scheduler s main window SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 42 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP Windows XP and Server 2003 Step 1 Start Windows Task Scheduler Open Control Panel and double click the Scheduled Tasks icon to open the scheduler window Step 2 Add new task Select menu File gt New gt Scheduled Task A new task entry will appear as an icon Give it a descriptive name In this example we use the name Web update Step 3 Open properties window for new entry Right click on the new entry and select Properties from the popup menu Step 4 Enter properties You can copy amp paste the command line of the new entry from the BatchSync Task Editor First select the task in the Task Editor main window and select the Schedule command from the menu Copy the content of the text field to the clipboard and paste it to the Windows Task Scheduler properties window in the Run field like this Schedule Task E3 Web update BatchSync uses windows Task Scheduler to run sync tasks at regular intervals To schedule a Task gt task you need to create new entry in Windows Task Scheduler Please click Help button for L Schedule Settings L comp
120. n the main window History pane The sync task history entries contains sync run statuses like OK or Errors plus numerous statistics about each sync run You can also view a list of the files transferred for each sync run However if this automatically generated history log information is not enough you can turn Extra Logging on SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Getting Started 31 Click the Logs tab to see logging options Select folder where log files are stored Click button to browse for folder Edit Task D sync Help Tasks Upload WebSite stf Spne Options Include Exclude Comparison Confiets Logs Email Verification Extra Logging Write log files to folder D sync Logs ams V Enable transfer logging Filename Max size KB uto Rotate Daily M Filename_Transfer_ D ate yyyge Enable ftp cmd logging Filename Max size KB 5000 Max size KB otate w Max Size X Filename_Cmd log Enable error logging Filename No Rotation x Filename_Error log Program creates a file transfer log for all sync task runs even when no extra logging options above are selected This transfer log is available in the History pane in the main window If you want collect more logging information select one or more options above You can change History logging settings in Options gt History log pane i Select Rotate w Max Size option to enab
121. nc 101 D Clear Filter Error 21 3 2014 14 27 57 BatchSync 102 9 E Properties y j amp P Find amp Hi Save Filtered Log File As T m Event 102 BatchSync G I enera aint Attach a Task To this Lo Sync task D syne Tasks L localhost ftp stf Syne completed with errors L errors occurred L Save Filter to Custom Vi 10 73 MB transferred View en oe 1 IQ Refresh og Name ication s see re Logged 21 3 2014 14 12 59 H Hep Event ID 102 Task Category 1 Level Error Keywords Classic B Event Properties User N A Computer Matin WIN7 f Attach Task To This Eve tare 5 Copy d m e oe rr 5 6 Server folders The vast majority of FTP servers out there use UNIX style path names This is the default syntax BatchSync expects to see in the Server Settings gt Server Folder field If an entered value does not comply with UNIX syntax then the Server Folder Warning window is shown This window makes a suggestion about how to automatically fix the entered folder value and most of the time this suggestion is correct and should be used It should be noted though that some servers use a different syntax for their folders In this case the correct syntax is different from UNIX syntax and the BatchSync suggestion might be wrong In these cases you should use the current value entered and ignore the software sugg
122. nd run Sync Preview again and click Show All button on the toolbar lt Matches only this folder but not its subfolders lt Matches this folder AND its subfolders SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 72 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP 5 11 F gt Sync Preview Local Ed htm about html download htm index html Products html EL logs Er html 2010_42_01 html 2010_42_02 htmI 2010 12 01 log 2010_12_02 log Ji php M pics E J customer E customer jpg customer jpg general cart git si minus gif Se plus gif amp system admin jpg Euser jpg boxshot jpg S logo gif main jpg Log Threads gt S Sync Show All Transfers Errors SEGGEFEGEEGEGEGEGiGEEGEEGEEGsysy bo SA Columns Log Close Remote Direction Name html html about html htmldownload htm htmlindex html htmlroducts html logs logs html logssntml 2010_12_01 html logs html 2010_12_02 html logs 2010_12_01 log logs 2010_12_02 log php pics pics customer pics customer customer1 jpg pics customer customer2 jpg pics general pics generalicart gif pics generaliminus gif pics general plus gif pics system pics system admin jpg pics systemiuser jpg picsHhoxshot jpg picsJogo git pics main jpg Extra Transfer Reason atch include Folder does not exist File does not exist File does not exist File does not exist File do
123. ndow This log is shared by all tasks and it s always enabled so you cannot disable it The history log files are written to the folder specified in the global options in the menu Tools gt Options gt History log folder field The same tab also has a Max number of history items field which specifies the maximum number of history entries available in the History pane The older entries over this max limit are automatically deleted Extra Log Folders In addition to the always enabled History log you might need extra logging on a per task basis All of the task specific log files are stored in the folder that is specified in the sync task settings Edit Task gt Log tab Sometimes it s best to write single sync task log files to separate folders And sometimes it s more convenient to store them all in the same folder You must decide what best suits your needs Log file types There are three types of log files 1 Transfer logs Contain a list of files transferred and errors if they occur during the sync 2 FTP Cmd logs Contain a list of FTP protocol commands and responses between BatchSync and an FTP server Also contains any errors that might occur SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 61 3 Error logs List of warnings and errors that occur on the sync run Warnings are about files that were retried i e there were errors during the transfer but after one or more retries the file was transferred
124. ne to the top 3 Locate Server host key fingerprint line in the log and right click on it to open popup menu Select Copy single line to clipboard from the menu r gt Sync Preview AIS 7 OA Show All Transfers Errors Columns Log Close Remote Extra Direction Name Transfer Reason Status homenliDocuments41 Source Message a Server host key fingerprint 98 22 e3 04 0f 92 55 1b 68 9e 6d b8 7b b5 7e 32 Saved host key fingerprint lt empty gt Copy single line to clipboard Fingerprint comparison is not enabled You should enable it in Get directory listing home mli Documents t1 Copy whole log to clipboard QO Get directory listing home mli Documents t1 Profiles 0 Get directory listing home mli Documents tl Settings 0 Get directory listing home mli D ocuments t Profiles Recommended 0 0 Nofiles to transfer all files are in sync Log Threads Sync Preview completed successfully No files to transfer all files are already in sync 4 Close Sync Preview window and select Edit Task gt Edit Server gt SFTP tab gt Host key fingerprint SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 113 field and paste fingerprint from the clipboard to the text field 5 Check Accept connection only if host key fingerprint maches checkbox r M Edit Site amp Server General Firewall Timeouts Options Options 2 SFTP FIPS
125. nfo is compared to the current source and target file attributes If the current local file attributes are same as values in the SyncDB file then the local file has not been modified since the last run Similarly if the current remote file attributes are the same as the values in the SyncDB file then the remote file has not been modified since the last sync either If neither file s attributes have changed then there is no need to transfer the file Solution to the problem Both the file s date and size were changed when the file was uploaded As we just record the new date value the file gets on the server it does not matter what the time difference is between the local and server computer clocks we can always detect when the date has changed since the last run Similarly as we just record the new size the file gets on the server it does not matter how the remote server stores ASCII files and how much different these file sizes are when uploaded we can always detect when the size has changed since the last run The above logic relies on the fact that we know when a file was uploaded successfully so a size difference is not due to a transfer error where only part of the file was transferred Therefore if a file has transfer errors even after multiple retries we do not record its date and size in the SyncDB file and therefore the next time the sync is run the file is forced to be transferred Syncing folders for the first time when they
126. ng the Software and only for a specified evaluation period which will begin on the date that the Software is first downloaded by or delivered to you After the specified time period you must either purchase the Software license from SiteDesigner or its reseller or destroy and stop using the Software If you purchase the Software before the expiration of the evaluation time and register the Software you have a valid license and you do not need to destroy the Software SiteDesigner shall have no obligation to provide support or maintenance services for Evaluation Licenses COMMERCIAL LICENSE Subject to the payment of the applicable license fees and subject to the following terms and conditions you have been granted a non exclusive non transferable right to use the specified Software SiteDesigner reserves any and all rights not expressly granted to you You may A Install and use one 1 copy of the Software on a single computer virtual machine B Create copies of the Software for installation and backup purposes only C Extend the number of licenses by purchasing additional licenses You may not A Install and use the Software against these Terms the SiteDesigner License Certificate or other related documentation B Distribute copies of the Software to a third party electronically transfer the Software to a computer belonging to a third party or permit a third party to copy the Software C Modify adapt translate rent lease r
127. nies select the appropriate time zone from this drop down list In this way directory listings and the file time stamps within them are converted to the local time automatically Multiple network card settings SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 111 5 18 5 Some computers are fitted with multiple network cards NICs In the typical scenario one of them is connected to the company s internal network or intranet and the other is connected to the public Internet In this case you can force software to use a specific NIC for connections To do this select the Enter local IP address manually option and enter the IP address for this NIC Now all of the connections are forwarded using the specified NIC and IP address UTF 8 unicode character support UTF 8 encoding adds support for many European language foreign characters in file and folder names When checked the software automatically detects if a server is sending encoded filenames Thus in most cases you can leave this field checked But if filenames do not appear correctly in the Sync window it might be that the server is not reporting its UTF 8 support correctly and you need to deselect this option Options 2 tab Timestamp Set local file timestamp after downloading After downloading a file the software sets the file modification date and time to the same values as those for the server Timestamp Set remote file timestamp after uplo
128. nload The trial version download is available at http Avww sitedesigner com download htm Where do get the unlock key We will send you the unlock key via email If you order with your credit card or PayPal account we will process the order in real time so you will receive the unlock key immediately after your purchase If you use another payment method we will email you the unlock key immediately after your order is fully processed How do enter the unlock key 1 First download the trial version of the software here http www sitedesigner com download htm 2 Install it 3 Runit via the Start menu SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 120 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP 6 2 4 Click the Enter Unlock Key button on the startup screen The following window opens i Enter Unlock Key Gr After you purchase a license you will receive an unlock key via E email Please enter the unlock key below EXACTLY as given to A you and click OK Unlock Key Cancel Buy Now 5 Enter the UNLOCK KEY in the text field 6 Click OK 7 Now the trial version is converted to the full version with all evaluation version limitations removed Support Troubleshooting with Sync Window Log pane When a sync task does not perform as you think it should it s best to start troubleshooting from the Sync window Log pane The log pane displays the communication between the client and server It often tells the exac
129. nseseeeseseneseneseneseneaesesuseoesonesseesenenes 105 GONG Al tAD a A E S E E A Firewall tab ccsecesseeseees Timeouts tab Options tab minis Options 2 tab SFTP tab esvecvisesseesssasssesscezeccacce ETPS QD LR A RE ce cease seus sabes ee ee oat dese d E Se eve eseeeaees Ordering Support and License Agreement 119 Ordering Information cis 205 ve euicccce ct oeec becca a aAA RA 119 2 SUP PONE 5er E E decteetueccveetedeseweateeeeeecees 120 3 License Agrement succinoides se tezed sa Ce deecuecuncenceGedencac sence du seecuunssuseeedetenenuaevs 121 Index 0 SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Part Introducing BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP Introducing BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP is a fast and smart tool for synchronizing folders Folder synchronization or sync for short is a method to make the source and target folders identical BatchSync makes folders identical by transferring only files that have changed since the last sync minimizing the time and bandwidth required for the sync The folders being synchronized can be local folders or reside at a network share UNC filenames and paths are supported The other side of the sync set can reside on an FTP server running any common FTP server software The secure edition adds support for FTPS servers and SSH2 servers running SFTP service Creating backups One way sync One way sync is most
130. nsfers Buffer sizes V Small files file size KB 30 Repeat Upload 50 H Download 50 A VJ1KB V 16KB 256 KB 7 Medium files file size KB 500 H Repeat Upload 25 HH Download 25 pe KB ns j 4kB 64KkB V 1024KB 7 Large files file size KB 10000 Repeat Upload 1 Download 1 a WI8KB Wlizske Log Results Upload Download BufferSize Small Files Medium Files Large Files Small files Medium Files Large Files 1KB 378 KB s 488 KB s 445 KB s 169 KB s 254 KB s 368 KB s 2KB 560 KB s 724 KB s 1191 KB s 290 KB s 382 KB s 744 KB s 8KB 868 KB s 2 609 KB s 3234 KB s 671 KB s 1 226 KB s 1 864 KB s 16KB 992 KB s 3247 KB s 3831 KB s 776 KB s 2023 KB s 2613 KB s 128 KB 1 097 KB s 3016 KB s 4374 KB s 919 KB s 3831 KB s 4598 KB s S S S e Select test file sizes that most closely resembles your actual data transfer file sizes and select buffer size alternatives to try by checking for example 1 4KB 8KB 16KB 128KB and 1024KB check boxes Then start optimizer run by clicking Run Optimizer button After optimizer run completes note which Buffer size gave the best performance and set it up for use in Edit Task gt Edit Server gt Options 2 tab gt Buffer size field E Show FTP commands and server responses in log pane Copy to clipboard Stop Run Optimizer Close Volume Shadow Copy Service VSS Overview The Volume Shadow Copy Service a k a Volume Snapshot Service VSS is a
131. oes not exist J B Library gt Library Folder does not exist pics D pics Folder does not exist press gt press Folder does not exist Templates Edit Task not exist tour ai pat Add Folder to Include Filter Templates exist boxshot jpg Add Folder to Include Filter C WebRoot Templates exist contact_support htm Add Folder to Include Filter httpdocs Templates exist count txt i Add Folder to Exclude Filter Templates Add Folder to Exclude Filter C webRoot Templates Add Folder to Exclude Filter httpdocs Templates download htm download_batchsyncftp htm Source Message a 0 7 folders to create 0 73 files to transfer 159 73 MB m Log Threads Sync Preview completed successfully 73 files 159 73 MB to transfer and 7 other operations to perform In the popup menu you can choose to add include and exclude filters with or without a path appended As we want to exclude a selected folder with a specific path select the highlighted entry in the menu The Edit Task window opens and the C WebRoot Templates text is automatically appended to the exclude folder text field SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Getting Started 29 y Edit Task D sync Help Tasks Upload WebSite stf Sync Options Include Exclude Comparison Conflicts Logs Email Verification You need to select this Exclude filtering by file folder name
132. older Archive TODAY yyyy mm dd SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 38 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP r y Edit Task D sync Tasks Download files stf Es Sync Options Include Exclude I Comparison Conflicts Logs Email Verification General V Include subfolders recursively fter successful transfer V One way sync move source files to archive folder after successful transfer Archive folder Date variables Archive T ODAY yyyy mm dd Two way sync propagate file folder deletions on one side to the other side Number of threads 1 i Max transfer speed per thread No limit Icon for the task w Default A poet Two way Servers Su O To reach the maximum transfer performance it s recommended to use 4 8 1 threads for transfers If the network you are using has high round trip latencies you might want to try higher values see Cancel Help And as an example the following files are copied to the ftp server com OutBox Source ftp server com OutBox Target C InBox SalesData zip Readme txt SalesByArea SalesNY doc SalesByArea SalesCA doc Sync task is run and here are the results after the sync run Source ftp server com OutBox Target C InBox SalesByArea empty folder is not deleted SalesData zip Readme txt SalesByArea SalesNY doc SalesByArea SalesCA doc Source ftp server com Archive 2014 04 15
133. ome to the Sync Task Wizard O This wizard helps you to enter all information necessary to set up a new sync task and connect to the server Enter a free form label to identify this new sync task You c such as Upload Web Site E an use any name for the sync task ever Files Upload Files Selectlan icon to help you identify the sync task AY Default a Wpload Download Two way Servers Connected Step 3 We want files to be uploaded from the local folder to the server so select the Upload files to the server one way sync option This creates a one way sync where all of the new and changed files SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 18 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP found on the local source folder are transferred to the remote target folder Click the Next button Step 4 Select the source folder in this example it is C WebRoot Optionally you can use date variables as part of the folder name You can find more information about date variables here Then click the Next button Step 5 To make a connection to the server enter the server address and login credentials and click the Next button Enter connection parameters us Enter server connection parameters The host address field looks something like ftp server com You get these values from your web hosting company or network administrator Host address ftp mysite com Usemame
134. on Email sending test and demonstration sync task Source localhost Upload apache Target Citemp Verification not enabled Transferred 12 9 KB Upload apache ABOUT_APACHE gt CitempABOUT_APACHE Transferred 2 9 KB Upload apache Announcement gt C itempiAnnouncement Transferred 20 0 KB Upload apache Apache exe gt CtemplApache exe Transferred 292 KB Upload apache ApacheCore dll C tempiApacheCore dil Transferred 216 bytes Upload apache back gif C tempibhack gif Transferred 0 bytes Upload apache bigfile ext0 gt Cltempibigfile ext0 Transferred 152 bytes Upload apache blank gif C tempiblank gif Transferred 2 3 KB Upload apache boxshot 5 gif C tternpiboxshot 5 gif Transferred 22 7 KB Upload apache content negotiation html gt C itempicontent negotiation html Reference Manual 105 5 17 9 Verification tab After file transfer completes successfully BatchSync checks that transfer results are within set limits These checks are not made if sync run has other errors For example your scheduled nightly file upload should always transfer exactly 5 files To verify that those 5 files are actually successfully uploaded set up verification like this r amp Edit Task D sync Tasks Upload WebSite stf Es Syne Options Include Exclude Comparison I Conflicts Logs Email Verification Verify transfer results After file transfer completes without errors following checks are made to
135. onize multiple folder pairs and sync task settings would only differ slightly So instead of creating a separate sync task for each folder pair in Task Editor you pass overriding parameters on the command line Example 1 For example you need to sync web site content to 10 web servers Each server contains identical folder structure so you need to upload same source folder to 10 separate hosts and target folder and other sync settings remain the same for all servers 1 First create a UploadWeb Stf sync task in Task Editor Set up this task with e Source Folder C Website e Target Host www1 company com e Target Folder www html 2 Test sync task in Task Editor After everything works OK create UploadWebSites bat file like this C Program Files BatchSync Sync C ProgramData Sync UploadWeb Stf H wwwl company com B c ProgramData Sync wwwl sdb C Program Files BatchSync Sync C ProgramData Sync UploadWeb Stf H www2 company com B c ProgramData Sync www2 sdb C Program Files BatchSync Sync C ProgramData Sync UploadWeb Stf H www3 company com B c ProgramData Sync www3 sdb C Program Files BatchSync Sync C ProgramData Sync UploadWeb Stf H www4 company com B c ProgramData Sync www4 sdb H www5 company com B c ProgramData Sync www5 sdb C Program Files BatchSync Sync C ProgramData Sync UploadWeb Stf H www6 company com B c ProgramData Sync www6 sdb c B C Program Files BatchSync Sync C Pro
136. ooks like this WARNING RetryCount 2 Transferred 480 MB C backup bigfile dat gt Upload backup bigfile dat This message means that bigfile dat was successfully transferred but it was interrupted for some reason during the transfer two 2 times so there were 2 retries during the transfer But with retries file was transferred in full This is different to error message that looks like this ERROR Connection timeout 40421 RetryCount 5 None C backup bigfile dat gt Upload backup bigfile dat This message means that bigfile dat was not successfully transferred but it was interrupted during the transfer 5 times and sync task has max limit 5 for retries in Edit Task gt Edit Server gt Timeouts tab gt Retry count max This error message is always added to the logs regardless of this check box setting History Log The history log contains run info and statistics about all of the sync tasks that were run on this computer You can view this history log by clicking the History button on the left hand side of the main window This log is shared by all tasks and it s always enabled so you cannot disable it History log folder The history log files are written to the folder specified in this field Max number of history items This setting specifies the maximum number of history entries available in the History pane The older entries over this max limit are automatically deleted We recommend that you keep this setting belo
137. ot exisi OK company htm 9308 11 2 2014 4 00 00 companyhtm 0 0 00 00 File does not exist OK contact htm 7649 1122014 4 00 00 contacthtm 0 0 00 00 File does not exist OK contact_support htm 11299 11 2 2014 4 00 00 gt contact_support htm 0 0 00 00 File does not exist OK Fj download htm 12097 11 2 2014 4 00 00 downloadhtm 0 0 00 00 File does not exist OK r download_3dftp htm 6634 1122014 4 00 00 gt download_3dftphtm 0 0 00 00 File does not exist OK E download_batchsyncftp h 6489 11 2 2014 4 00 00 download_batchsynci 0 0 00 00 File does not exist OK download_batchsyncftps1 6430 11 2 2014 4 00 00 download_batchsynci 0 0 00 00 File does not exist OK download _instantsyncftp 6442 11 2 2014 4 00 00 download_instantsync 0 0 00 00 File does not exist OK Source Message a 0 f Transfer time 2 secs O0 Total bytes transferred 32 47 MB 34050268 bytes 0 Folders created 3 0f Transferred 61 files 0 Verification not enabled 0f O Sync completed OK 0 Log Threads Sync completed successfully 61 files 32 47 MB transferred and 3 other operations performed Step 12 This is the end of the Getting Started in 5 minutes tutorial Now you have created the new sync task Upload Files stf This sync task contains all of the necessary details for performing a local gt remote file synchronization So after editing local files in C WebRoot you simply repeat steps 9 and 10 to upload all of the c
138. peed Task Optimizer helps you to find optimum Buffer Size setting for your network configuration It does this by uploading and downloading a set of files with different sizes with different Buffer Size settings and measures the transfer soeed Results are shown in a table where you can find the best setting for your needs To run the test Select a set of buffer sizes to try by checking check boxes Select the file sizes that most closely resembles your common file sizes Click Run Optimizer to start the test After test run completes find the optimal Buffer Size setting from the table Close Task Optimizer and set new Buffer Size setting for the task in Edit Task gt Edit Server gt De Ne SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 83 5 16 Options 2 tab gt Buffer Size field The screen shot below shows test run results against Linux Mint SSH server The Buffer Size 128KB gives clearly the fastest download speeds so this value is chosen for the task Buffer Size i Task Optimizer D sync Tasks ubuntu sftp kannettava stf Server and source target folders Info Server 192 168 100 22 22 using SFTP as user mli Task Optimizer helps you to find optimal Source 192 168 100 22 home mli ubuntushared tomcat gt DES Target C temp ti Click here to learn more Upload and download file sizes repeat count for tra
139. php File does not exist 4 Folder does not exist Folder does not exist File does not exist File does not exist Folder does not exist File does not exist File does not exist File does not exist Folder does not exist File does not exist File does not exist File does not exist File does not exist File does not exist File does not exist Log Threads Sync Preview completed successfully 26 files 4 26 MB to transfer and 10 other operations to perform In other words we do not want to download 1 website htsys folder 2 website logs folder and subfolders 3 Any log files with log extension 73 You can do this by selecting Edit Task command and clicking Exclude tab Then add following Exclude filters SiteDesigner Technologies Inc BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP Edit Task D c Tasks Backup WebSite stf Sync Options inca Exclude Comparison Conflicts Logs Email Verification Exclude filtering by file folder name Match case in file folder name filters File name matches filter entered below log Folder name matches filter entered below website htsys website logs Y pl 12 logs php php cnt Ick Exclude filtering by file size date amp attributes File size is gt x 1024 bytes File changed lessthan v 15 minu
140. pment server documents CAP NUM SCRL or as alist To create a new task click the New button Next Step Entering task parameters 4 3 4 Entering task parameters The New Task window opens This window has multiple tabs in the top row but at this stage you do not need to know them all just look at the fields highlighted in the screenshot SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 24 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP New Task Select One way sync direction Select source type from drop down list Enter source folder Sync Options Include Exclude Comparison Conflicts Logs Email Verification Syne Direction One way sync transfer new and changed files from source to target Two way sync transfer new and changed files in both directions Source Target ocal or Network Folder FTP FTPS of SFTP Server FTP Server Server Click to edit gt Server Folder Local or Network Folder Folder Name C WebRool es Date variables Date variables Save As Save Task to Folder D sync Help T asks Save Task As filename without path Description s These required fields are missing input Server Server Folder Save Task As L Show in yellow Edit Server 7 Cancel Help Selecttargettype from drop down list Click Edit Server button to enter server connect parameters Enter target folder Check this
141. ptions In this case BatchSync cannot track changes to files so it does not know when conflicts occur Also it is possible for file size differences system clock differences and time zone differences to cause problems when BatchSync tries to determine what files need to be transferred Normally it is highly recommended to keep SyncDB enabled 5 13 Options General SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 79 Files transferred in ASCII mode when Auto transfer mode is selected in Server Options This field contains a list of filenames that will be transferred in ASCII mode Use semicolons to separate entries The ASCII mode is automatically used for all files matching the entries in this list if Edit Task gt Edit Server gt File transfer mode gt Auto is selected Mouse double click action in main window Selected action is taken when you double click a sync task in the main window task list Generate a warning message in logs if file transfer is retried When checked software adds a warning message to the transfer and error logs if extra logging is enabled for the sync task in Edit Task gt Logs tab gt Enable transfer error logging The warning message is generated only if file transfer succeeds but it s interrupted and retried during the transfer If file transfer does not succeed error message is always generated regardless of this setting So with this setting enabled message shown in the error log l
142. r could also match a folder like C WebRoot html system logs so be extra careful when using partial paths in filters SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 66 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP Using source or target paths in filters You can use either source or target folder names in full partial paths so using the previous example we could also have entered the same filters like this File name matches Thumbs db pub public Scripts php pub public usr db db Folder name matches pub public system logs It s up to you to choose which method to use Related e Include folders filter sample e Exclude files and folders filter sample 5 10 Filter sample Include Folders We have a sync task that uploads web site files from the local folder to the remote server folder The sync task set up looks like this Source D webroot Target Upload webroot When this sync task is run without any filters by default all folders are included and results look like this SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 5 f M O4 Sync top Show All Errors Columns Log Close Local Remote Extra Name Direction Name Transfer Reason Status E d D iwebroot gt JUploadswebroot Folder does not exist a cgi bin gt cgi bin Folder does not exist pe F install cgi gt
143. rator in formatted output is determined by your system settings g Display the date as ddddd and display the time as ttttt in that order Display only date information if there is no fractional part to the date serial number display only time information if there is no integer portion d Display the day as a number without a leading zero 1 31 dd Display the day as a number with a leading zero 01 31 ddd Display the day as an abbreviation Sun Sat dddd Display the day as a full name Sunday Saturday ddddd Display the date as a complete date including day month and year formatted according to your system s short date format setting The default short date format is m d yy dddddd Display a date serial number as a complete date including day month and year formatted according to the long date setting recognized by your system The default long date format is mmmm dd yyyy w Display the day of the week as a number 1 for Sunday through 7 for Saturday Www Display the week of the year as a number 1 54 m Display the month as a number without a leading zero 1 12 If m immediately follows h or hh the minute rather than the month is displayed mm Display the month as a number with a leading zero 01 12 If m immediately follows h or hh the minute rather than the month is displayed mmm Display the month as an abbreviation Jan Dec mmmm Display the month as a full month name January
144. rce e Local Folder C WebRoot Target The web site root directory on the server is the httpdocs folder In addition to this we need the server address and login parameters Remote server address ftp mysite com Login Username userxyz Login Password secret Remote server folder httpdocs As we are making all of our modifications to the local folder we want the target to be an exact copy of it so we want a One way sync Extra details We have almost all we need only some extra info is needed We use popular DreamWeaver software for creating and editing web pages in C WebRoot It creates some extra files and folders that we do not want to upload to the web site So we need to exclude some files and folders e Exclude all folders that start with the _ character folders like Notes e Exclude folders with the names Library and Templates These are DreamWeaver generated folders that we don t want to upload e Exclude the file Thumbs db as this is a file that Windows automatically generates for showing preview thumbnails in Explorer and we don t want to upload that Now we have all the information we need So let s start creating the sync task to make uploading easy Next Step Start Task Editor Start Task Editor All task editing is done with the BatchSync Task Editor software To create a new task first start Task Editor By default it can be found in the Windows Start menu Windows 7 or newer Start menu gt All Progr
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146. re retrying connect Connect retry delay Wait time between connect attempts Command timeout Time to wait for response to command sent to server before retrying the command Transfer timeout Max idle time no data is transferred during the file transfer before trying to restart the transfer Transfer retry delay When there is an error or timeout during the transfer software waits this time in secs before attempting SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 110 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP 5 18 4 to connect and transfer again Retry count max Each file transfer is retried this many times before file is flagged with an error Set this to 999 to retry forever but notice that then the task will be in a loop forever if for example the server does not respond So it is better to set this value to lt 10 as transfer will normally succeed with 10 tries and if it does not there are some real problems that need to be worked out Max errors per task Sets the max limit for total number of errors per task run When number of items with errors exceeds this this limit all remaining items in the transfer queue are flagged with the error and task is terminated You can set this to 9999 to disable this feature For example lets say your sync task is about to upload 100 files and you have Max errors per task 20 About 30 of these files are locked so they cannot be uploaded This is what will happen e BatchSync tries to
147. res Windows 8 x 7 Vista XP or 2000 or Windows Server 2012 2008 2008 R2 or 2003 Installation e Download the BatchSync executable install file e Run the executable to start the installer program This installer will configure BatchSync to run on your computer e Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the installation e After the installation is complete you will find the BatchSync Task Editor item in the Windows Start menu at the Start gt All Programs gt BatchSync sub menu Related e Upgrading from 2 x e Getting started in 5 minutes e Getting Started Upgrading from 2 x Installation You can install the new 4 0 version over an existing 2 x version without uninstalling 2 x first But before you do that make a backup of existing sync tasks To make a backup copy all STF and SDB files from your current sync task folder to a safe place Like this e Copy C ProgramData Sync C Safe Old sync tasks can be used as is and further edited with 4 0 But after editing you CANNOT use the same sync tasks with an older version Rather you need to restore them from the backup Notice If you get an error message when trying to edit a 2 x sync task or after completing a sync run this is due to changes in the permission settings for sync task files Please read more about this below The new 4 0 version cannot be installed in parallel with an older 2 x version as the new version replaces the exis
148. run Only reset SyncDB file on the next sync run do not transfer any files Rules if file is not in SyncDB Following rules are used when SyncDB is disabled or when it does not exist running sync first time or file is not found there file is new Rules for one way sync Compare dates Transfer if source date is newer than target Compare sizes Transfer if source size is different than target Time Comparison Consider time to be equal when there is a max 2 secs difference J Server does not report seconds in time stamp so ignore seconds V Ignore Daylight Saving Time s exact 1 hour difference in file times Note If server is on different time zone select its time zone in Sync tab gt Edit server gt Options tab save J Cancel Help Convert a copy task into a move task You can convert a file copy task into a file move task by editing single option in task settings 1 Select Edit Task gt Options tab 2 Check One way sync delete source files after successful transfer check box SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 37 3 Save changes and you are done Source files are deleted only if transfer is 100 successful So if file transfer is cut in the middle and file is not transferred in full file is not deleted on the source Each source file is deleted right after successful transfer so if sync run is interrupted in the middle by any reason all fi
149. s simple copy VSHADOW EXE to same folder containing SYNC EXE path is C Program Files BatchSync or C Program Files BatchSync Secure Creating a snapshot For example lets say that we want to transfer all files under c Windows System32 folder This folder SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 85 contains lot of files that are in use and locked so they cannot be copied normally To make all files under this path readable we need to create a snapshot shadow copy of the C volume So even if we want to access only single subfolder we need to create a permanent snapshot for a whole volume To make this happen open a command prompt with administrator privileges Then enter command C Program Files BatchSync Secure gt vshadow p script setvar cmd C VSHADOW EXE 2 2 Volume Shadow Copy sample client Copyright C 2005 Microsoft Corporation All rights reserved Option Persistent shadow copy Option Generate SETVAR script setvar cmd Option Create shadow copy set Setting the VSS context to 0x00000009 Gathering writer metadata Waiting for the asynchronous operation to finish Initialize writer metadata Discover directly excluded components Excluding writer BITS Writer since it has no selected components for restore Excluding writer MSSearch Service Writer since it has no selected components for restore Excluding writer
150. s database db Download file LogFiles dbsysadmin dat STATISTICS No action 25 Errors 0 Average transfer speed 6 240 3 KB s Average transfer bandwidth usage w 12 packet protocol overhead 56162 8 Kbps Total time 37 secs Transfer time 36 secs Total bytes transferred 220 71 MB 231435723 bytes Transferred 3 files Sync completed OK Sync OK Exit code 0 D sync gt _ SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 53 Command line parameter V2 Extended verbose mode When you pass the V2 command line parameter you will see the client gt server communication in more detail So output on the console looks like this D sync gt sync V2 DownloadFiles stf D sync DownloadFiles stf loaded Running Connecting to localhost 21 SERVER 220 FileZilla Server version 0 9 34 beta written by Tim Kosse Tim Kosse gmx de Please visit http sourceforge CLIENT USER dbadmin SERVER 331 Password required for dbadmin PASS KKKKXKXX 230 Logged on na DoH lt E j Z Po CLIENT FEAT SERVER 211 Features MDT REST STREAM n H N 1 MLST type size modify UTH SSL H TLS TF8 LNT MEFMT 211 End D CLIENT CLNT Sync SERVER 200 Don t care CLIENT OPTS UTF8 ON SERVER 200 UTF8 mode enabled CLIENT PWD SERVER 257
151. s filter entered below check box Also add a semicolon to the end of the folder name and save changes by clicking Save button SiteDesigner Technologies Inc BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP r Edit Task D sync Tasks Upload WebSite stf pl Sync Options Include Exclude Comparison Conflicts Logs Email Verification Include filtering by file folder name E Match case in file folder name filters E File name matches filter entered below Folder name matches filter entered belo You can enter multiple file folder name filters by separating them with semicolons like htm txt gif htdocs ipg Include filtering by file size date amp attributes E Fie size is bo 1024 bytes E File changed lessthan 15 minutes ago gt E File date is between 2aMar2014 1011 i 28Mar2014 1011 gt E File attributes E Archive E Read only E System E Hidden Compressed E Encrypted D By default include filtering is turned off so all files are included in the sync When you tum include filtering on only files that do match one or more filters are included in the sync ie Cees 4 You can now repeat the process for other two folders or edit text field manually until Edit Task window looks like this Fr Edit Task D sync Tasks Upload WebSite stf pl Syne Options
152. s not exist ES plus gif gt pics general plus gif File does not exist system gt pics system Folder does not exist re admin jpg gt pics system admin jpg File does not exist i Euser jpg gt pics system user jpg File does not exist E boxshot jpg gt pics boxshot jpg File does not exist Sn logo gif gt picslogo gif File does not exist Emain jpg gt pics main jpg File does not exist N Log Threads Sync Preview completed successfully 25 files 3 80 MB to transfer and LL other operations to perform This is fine but we d want to transfer only following folders SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 68 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP htm 2010_12_01 html 2010_12_02 html 2010_12_01 log 2010_12_02 log _jcustomer php _ email php search php p customer E customer1 jpg R customer2 jpg 6 general cart gif inus gif plus gif E p system admin jpg Eluserjpg E boxshot jpg 8x logo gif main jpg Log Threads D D gt gt gt gt D D D gt gt D D D D D gt gt D D gt gt gt gt D D D D D gt gt gt gt gt logshtml logshtml 2010_12_01 Html logs html 201 0_12_02 html logs 2010_12_01 log logs 2010_12_02 log php php customer php php email php php search php pics pics customer pics customer customer1 jpg pics customer customer2 jpg pics general pics generalicart
153. s to set the uploaded file date but very few FTP servers support them but if server supports these non standard ways to set date BatchSync uses them Second the file size was changed too It should be noted that this happens only for FTP servers running Linux Solaris HP UX or some other unix variant But some 95 of internet ftp servers ARE running one of these unix variants so actually this happens on almost all FTP servers Also it should be noted that this happens only when uploading ASCII files like text files HTML pages log files PHP scripts etc But since they are very common file types this happens on almost all file transfers Read more about this in the info box below ASCII File size differences in Windows and Unix machines The file sizes are different because Windows and FTP servers use different methods for separating text lines in ASCII files like in HTML web pages The FTP servers are most commonly unix boxes which use a Single linefeed LF character to separate lines Windows computers use two characters CR LF to do the same thing Therefore text files are smaller on the server than on the disk of the Windows machine This is normal behavior not a bug or an error these two operating systems were simply designed to be different This difference applies only to text files that are transferred in ASCII mode BatchSync uses global options see menu Tools gt Options to determine which files are transferred in
154. signer Technologies Inc Ordering Support and License Agreement 121 Troubleshooting with debug logging If the logging discussed above does not reveal the source of the problem you can use debug logging to help solve the problem BatchSync has a built in debug logging feature that helps with troubleshooting and solving problems you might encounter This logging feature is available in the menu Tools gt Options gt Support tab By default this logging feature is turned off You can turn it on by selecting the Debug Logging check box When the debug logging check box is selected the software writes technical information to a special log file while it s running You can see the name of the extra log file on the Support tab so write it down Now repeat the problem After you see the problem again look at this file to see whether it shows the source of the problem If it does not please contact our technical support and attach this file to the email message Check for latest version Please check the http www sitedesigner com download htm page to ensure that you are running the latest version of BatchSync Contacting support When contacting support and reporting problems please include the following information e Can you reproduce the problem If so how e What version of Windows are you running Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 Vista etc e What edition and version of BatchSync are you running To see this
155. sing the same command prompt with administrator privileges C Program Files BatchSync Secure gt sync c ProgramData Sync Upload Stf BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP 3 0 8 Sync task C ProgramData Sync Upload stf Direction OneWayUpload Source X windows system32 Target home admin upload system32 Recursive Yes Symlinks No Sync task loaded Running STATISTICS No action 0 Errors 0 Average transfer speed 1 855 1 KB s Average transfer bandwidth usage w 12 packet protocol overhead 16695 6 Kbps Total time 20 m 7 secs Transfer time 19 m 29 secs Folders created 1351 Transferred 13432 files Total bytes transferred 2117 31 MB 2220156007 bytes Sync completed OK After SYNC EXE completes all files have been backed up to remote offline storage SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 88 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP 5 17 5 17 1 Delete snapshot So snapshot is no longer needed and we can delete it C Program Files BatchSync Secure gt vshadow dx SHADOW_SET_ID VSHADOW EXE 2 2 Volume Shadow Copy sample client Copyright C 2005 Microsoft Corporation All rights reserved Option Delete a shadow copy set Setting the VSS context to Oxffffffff Deleting shadow copy set e6b9617c 6e02 461b 8b76 a164e399beaa C Program Files BatchSync Secure gt How to automate all this You can automate all these steps by creating the Uplo
156. sive Include subfolders same as R 1 NotRecursive Do not include subfolders same as R 0 L Symlinks Resolves symbolic links and processes them like L Yes Yes Process symbolic links same as L 1 SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 47 No Skip symbolic links same as L 0 X Deletion Deletion options like X DelExtra DelExtra Delete extra files on the target same as X 1 DelAfterTransfer Delete source files after successful transfer DelPropagate Two way sync Propagate deletions None Turn all deletions off same as X 0 N NumThreads umber of threads 1 25 like N 4 B C Path SyncDB sdb SyncDB file w full path NOTE Do NOT use same SyncDB file for two sync folder pairs I e always pass unique filename You can turn SyncDB off with B 0 or turn it off in the sync task settings in Task Editor G C Logs Path for extra logging files quotes are required V Verbose mode outputs file actions V2 Verbose more as above plus FTP cmds responses EXAMPLES SYNC c sync MySyncTask Stf SYNC c sync Defaults Stf D OneWayDownload H ftp me com 21 U root W secret S pub apache T c apache X DelExtra N 8 B c sync syncl sdb SYNC c sync Backup Stf S webserver T c backup B c sync sync2 sdb Like in the last example you can override only certain parameters on the command line and rest of the parameters are read
157. t error message that the server is giving So run Sync or Sync Preview and view the log pane looking for possible error messages from the server This log shows the last 2000 lines of client lt gt server communication The most common problems are in the server connection parameters so double check the following parameters in the Edit Site window e Hostaddress This should be in the form ftp myserver com or as an IP address such as 187 102 4 14 No http or ftp or similar prefixes e Username You get a username from your web hosting company or your system network admin Note that the username is usually case sensitive Password You get a password from your web hosting company or your system network admin Note that the password is usually case sensitive e Passive mode If a connection does not work with passive mode try port mode Some servers do not allow passive mode Server folder Check the folder name The easiest way to ensure that the server folder is entered correctly is to create a new sync task using the Task Wizard With the wizard you can select the server folder from a list Troubleshooting with extra log files If Log pane is not showing the source of the error turn the FTP Cmd log file on in Edit Task gt Log tab gt Enable FTP cmd logging Click OK to save changes Now sync again to repeat the error After the error look at the generated FTP Cmd log for the source of the errors SiteDe
158. t s often necessary to be able to track which files were transferred in what direction and what errors if any occurred during the sync runs The settings on this tab control what log files are written during the sync runs Notice BatchSync always updates the global run history log file which contains run info and statistics SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 99 5 17 8 about all of the sync tasks that were run on this computer You can view this history log by clicking the History button on the left hand side of the main window More information about log files can be found here Write log files to folder The folder where all log files are written Sometimes it is most convenient to create separate subfolders for the log files for each task and sometimes it is more appropriate to write them all to the same folder Enable transfer logging When checked a transfer log is created This log file contains a list of all the files transferred and any errors that occurred during the transfer Filename Filename for the transfer log without the path This filename can contain macros Read more here Max size KB If Rotate w Max Size is selected a log file is renamed to Filename bak log and a new log file is created when the file size reaches this limit So Filename log contains the most recent log entries and Filename bak log contains older info Enable FTP cmd logging The FTP cmd log conta
159. te a SYNC BAT file with Notepad add the line shown above and save it to the desktop Now running this sync task is a matter of double clicking the icon on the desktop Notice The most common source of errors when running a sync task from the command line is forgetting to add quotation marks around an executable path name This is required if the path name contains any spaces SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 45 Running a sequence of sync tasks in succession When you need to run a sequence of task files in succession place multiple commands one after another in a batch file like this c Program Files BatchSync Sync C Tasks Sync CA office STF c Program Files BatchSync Sync C Tasks Sync IL office STF c Program Files BatchSync Sync C Tasks Sync NY office STF Errorlevel Sync exe sets the ERRORLEVEL when it exits to signal whether there were any errors during the sync Errorlevel 0 means that the sync was successful and errorlevel 1 means that there were one or more errors You can use this in batch files by conditionally running sync tasks in sequence The following bat file runs two sync tasks but it runs the second task only if the first is successful The code looks like this cd c Program Files BatchSync Sync d Tasks Backup Dev Source stf IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO Syncl_Errors IF ERRORLEVEL 0 GOTO Syncl_OK GOTO Exit Sync
160. te s ago X E File date is between 28 Mar2014 1011 28Mar20141011 File attributes Archive Read only System Hidden Compressed Encrypted By default exclude filtering is turned off so no files folders are excluded from the sync When you turn exclude filtering on all files folders that do match filter are not included in the sync Help Save changes and run Sync Preview again Then click Show All button on the toolbar Results look like this FE al gt Sync Preview i L EI gt F m A Sync Show All Transfers Errors Columns Log Close Local Remote Extra Name Direction Name Transfer Reason Status Ed htmi hm Folder does not exist about html 4 htmi about Atm File does not exist act html a g Matches exclude filter htmlindex html File does not exist htmlproducts htm File does not exist hi Mate xclude fitter logs Matches exclude filter A php Folder does not exist B _ customer php K phpicustomer php File does not exist L email php php email php File does not exist bE php log php php log Mi xclude filter _ search php 4 php search php File does not exist p pics 4 pics Folder does not exist p customer pics customer Folder does not exist pi tomers g Matches exclude filter E customer1 jpg picsicustomericustomer1
161. ter building the SyncDB tracking file Rules if file is not in SyncDB These rules are used if the SyncDB feature is disabled when running a sync for the first time or when a file cannot be found in SyncDB i e if a file is new If you disable SyncDB then these rules are always used when running the sync task Rules for one way sync Compare dates Transfer if source date is newer the same older different than target When checked compares the date time of the source and target files The default is newer which means that if the source file is newer than the target the file is transferred Compare sizes Transfer if source size is smaller the same bigger different than target When checked compares the size of the source and target files By default it is not checked so file sizes are not compared Time Comparison These extra rules are used to compare file and folder time stamps Consider time to be equal when there is a max NN secs difference SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 97 When dealing with files in network shared folders file dates can be different by 2 secs even when the files are exactly the same So a date stamp is not perfectly accurate in all situations Therefore it is suggested that this value be set to 2 so that files with a max 2 second difference in time stamp are still considered to have the same date stamp Server does not report seconds in time stamp so ignore seconds
162. ters Yes Yes Yes Yes Rules to handle conflicts Yes Yes Yes Yes Recursively sync folders Yes Yes Yes Yes Optionally delete extra files on target Yes Yes Yes Yes AutoResume interrupted and failed transfers unlimited times unlimited times unlimited times unlimited times AutoReconnect unlimited times unlimited times unlimited times unlimited times Firewall amp proxy support Yes Yes Yes Yes Server timezone adjustment Yes Yes Yes Yes Extensive logging options Yes Yes Yes Yes Automatic log file rotation Yes Yes Yes Yes Multiple auto rotation schemes Yes Yes Yes Yes Sync tasks are saved to ASCII files making Yes Yes Yes Yes them easy to copy duplicate manage Each sync task has its own set of options Yes Yes Yes Yes like filters max retries timeouts number of threads logging etc Schedule sync tasks Yes Yes Run scheduled tasks as service Yes Yes Email notifications on success on errors Yes Yes Run sync tasks from command line e g in Yes Yes batch files Run multiple sync tasks simultaneously Yes Yes Run sequence of sync tasks in succession Yes Yes SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Part Ill System Requirements Installation and Uninstallation 10 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP 3 3 System Requirements Installation and Uninstallation System Requirements BatchSync requi
163. tes 1 Kilobyte KB 1048576 Bytes 1 Megabyte MB 1073741824 Bytes 1 Gigabyte GB File changed When checked the file time stamp is compared to this filter value Use the day s ago option to enter longer periods of time like 7 Days 1 Week 14 Days 2 Weeks 21 Days 3 Weeks 30 Days 4 Weeks or 1 Month 60 Days 2 Months 90 Days 3 Months or 1 Quarter 365 Days 1 Year 730 Days 2 Years 1095 Days 3 Years File date is between When checked the file time stamp must be between these two values File attributes When checked the file s attributes must contain all the selected attributes but it can also have other extra attributes So if the Read Only check box is selected a file that has Archive and Read Only attributes set will be included in the sync Exclude tab Exclude filtering by file folder name Match case in file folder name filters When checked compares file and folder names in a case sensitive manner So INDEX HTML is not considered the same as index html When not checked the filename INDEX HTML index html Index Html InDeX HtMI SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 95 File name matches filter entered below By default no files are excluded from the sync If you want to exclude one or more files or folders select this check box and enter a list of filenames to be excluded from the sync Separate multiple filenames with semicolons You can us
164. th any text editor like Notepad Email templates are by default installed to e C ProgramData Sync Email Templates text_email txt e C ProgramData Sync Email Templates html_email txt These email templates utilizes same variables as listed above under Subject heading Emails are sent as html mail by default but if you prefer you can choose to send them as text only You can see a sample of a notification email message below html formatted email Include a list of files transferred in the email message When checked a list of all of the file and folder actions are included in the email message body replacing STAT_LIST_OF_FILES variable Below is a sample of an email message The grayed text is part of the email message body that is always included And the rest of it is a list of files transferred that is included only if this option is checked SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 104 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP Sync OK email test stf 753 files 30 33 MB transferred STATISTICS Status Sync OK Errors 0 Files transferred 753 Files deleted 0 Folders created 0 Folders deleted 0 No action 64 Operations total 753 SPEED amp TIMINGS Run date 1 4 2014 15 40 28 Total time 36 secs Transfer time 14 secs Average transfer speed 2 219 6 KB s Average transfer bandwidth 19976 7 Kbps Total bytes transferred 30 33 MB 31804819 bytes SYNC TASK Task file D isynciTasksiemail test stf Descripti
165. the other options for the sync task Each task is saved to a separate file with an STF extension e g UploadFiles STF and BackupLogFiles STF The sync task details are Source e Local Folder C WebRoot Target The httpdocs is the target folder on the server In addition to this we need the server address and login parameters e Remote server address ftp mysite com e Remote server folder httpdocs e Login Username userxyz e Login Password secret Notice When you create a new sync task with Task Wizard you can edit any of the sync task settings later after the wizard is through Step 1 To create a new sync task start the Task Wizard by clicking the Wizard button on the toolbar or select the button in Welcome pane SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Getting Started 17 F s BatchSync Secure Task Editor Task View Tools Help Test Development g Me New Wizard Options Folder DA Select Folder _ Show gt Welcome to BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP Quick Start Please select one of the following buttons a Create a new sync task with Task Wizard History Read Getting started in 5 minutes tutorial Icons List Details CAP NUM SCRL Step 2 Enter the sync task name and select an icon for it The name can be any free form text you choose Then click the Next button K Sync Task Wizard Welc
166. these are needed when creating a backup sync task where part of the target folder name is evaluated to current date values Read more about date variables here Save As Task files are saved as text files one task per file Tasks are saved to the folder indicated in the Save Task to Folder field Enter the filename for the task without the path You likewise don t need to enter the STF extension it s added automatically If you later edit the task and change its filename here then the task is saved with a new filename and the original task file is left intact In this way you can create multiple tasks by using one task as a starting point and saving a copy under a new name Description Enter a free form description for the task This description is shown in the Details mode in the main window Options tab Include subfolders If checked all subfolders are processed in the sync recursively If you want only a subset of folders to be included you can use Exclude filtering see the Exclude tab Include symbolic links If checked processes the symbolic links in unix type machines The symbolic links are resolved to either files or folders and then processed accordingly One way sync delete extra files folders on target SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 91 This option is used only on one way syncs When checked deletes files and folders from the target that do not exist on the source A
167. ting installation So if you want to test the 4 0 version and keep your existing 2 x installation intact you need to install 3 0 on a separate computer Upgrade pricing Get 50 Off SiteDesigner Technologies Inc System Requirements Installation and Uninstallation 11 If you are a licensed user of the 2 x version of BatchSync or InstantSync you are entitled to special upgrade pricing Please read more about this on our web site Errors when using old 2 x sync task If you get the error message Path File access error when trying to save a sync task after editing or after completing a sync run you need to manually change the permission settings for the sync task STF and SyncDB files SDB To change the permissions for multiple files you need an elevated command prompt Click Start menu Type cmd Right click cmd exe when it shows up under programs Select Run as administrator Change to the folder where your sync tasks are located like CD C ProgramData Sync Now enter the following command OO ON icalcs inheritance e Now all of the files should inherit their security settings from the parent folder Known problem with Windows Vista Task Scheduler We have received numerous error reports about Windows Vista Task Scheduler not working the way it should The scheduler history displays an error message like this Task Scheduler failed to start Sync UploadFiles task for user SysServer
168. tion Exclude filtering by file folder name E Match case in file folder name filters J File name matches filter entered below Filename was appended automatically v Folder name matches filter entered below C WebRoot T emplates C webRoot Library _ You can enter multiple filters by separating them with semicolons like logs php php cnt Ick Exclude filtering by file size date amp attributes File size is gt x 1024 bytes File changed lessthan 15 You could also filter by file size date stamp and attributes File date is between 26 Mar 201415 20 v 26 Mar201415 20 v File attributes ET Archive E Read only E System F Hidden E Compressed 1 Encrypted e By default exclude filtering is turned off so no files folders are excluded from the sync When you turn exclude filtering on all files folders that do match filter are not included in the sync save Cancel Help Thumbs db is added to the exclude filter without any path This means that all files having this name in any folder are excluded from the sync This is convenient as the Thumbs db file is automatically added to all folders that are viewed with Windows Explorer in the thumbnails mode This filter ensures that they are never uploaded to the web server Optional Turn Logging On All of the performed sync runs are automatically listed i
169. to see the required fields missing the input Make selections and enter the values as indicated above Here we have selected that we want to upload files from a local folder to the FTP server and entered the source and target folders Next click the ee eke button to enter the target server connection parameters like server address username and password The following screen opens SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Getting Started 25 W New Site amp Server General Firewall Timeouts Options Options 2 SFTP FTPS Enter free form ae NE label for the site 7 Optional Host address Enter server ftp mysite com address or IP Enter logi Username o number nter login user userxyz _ Anonymous login name Password Enter login password Slackers Protocol Port elect protocol Options are ais a 2 FTP FTPS and Data connection mode File transfer mode SFTP and latter Passive mode PASV Auto two are only available in Use following Active mode port range min max Secure edition V Resume interrupted transfers Click OK button to save changes Enter values for the server connection The Options tab contains more settings for fine tuning the connection but for now we can leave those settings at the default values Click the OK button to close this window This takes you back to the New Task window
170. tting Anonymous Login When checked the username anonymous and the password user comp com are used to login to the server Protocol The following protocols are supported e FTP File Transfer Protocol The default and most widely used protocol Default port is 21 e FTPS with SSL explicit with data Same as FTP but uses SSL encryption AUTH TLS for both command and data transfer connections Default port is 21 FTPS with SSL explicit without data Same as FTP but uses SSL encryption AUTH TLS for command connection only Secures login username and password but not files transferred So the data channel is not encrypted Default port is 21 FTPS with SSL implicit with data Same as FTP but uses SSL encryption for both command and data transfer connections Default port is 990 SFTP using SSH2 Totally different protocol from FTP Makes connection using SSH protocol and uses SFTP Secure File Transfer Protocol to transfer files SSH1 servers are not supported only SSH2 servers Default port is 22 NOTE All FTP servers do not support FTPS connections In order to utilize encrypted transfers the server must be explicitly set up to support encrypted connections And most FTP servers are not set up that way If your server is owned by a web hosting company please consult them for the different options available to you Notice The support for FTPS and SFTP servers requires the Secure edition FTP SSL Protocol
171. ues Why not just the compare the current date and size values of the source and target files The answers to these questions will follow please read on Copying files between folders in the local or network folders When you copy a file from the local folder to another local or network folder all its current attributes like date modified and size stay intact in the copy process Local File Server C WebRoot WServerShare gt lt a index html index html Size 2058 Size 2058 Date modified 1 5 2014 8 45 Date modified 1 5 2014 8 45 If later either of these copies is changed it s easy to see this by simply comparing the file date and size attributes Local File Server C WebRoot ServerShare Size and Date Modified f attributes have changed gt D E file changed index html Size 1972 Date modified 1 14 2014 11 02 index html Size 2058 Date modified 1 5 2014 8 45 In the above scenario there would be no need to track changes with the separate SyncDB file as we can clearly see that the network copy of the file has changed This fact applies to all cases when copying files between local and network folders no SyncDB file would really be needed to detect changes in the files But things are quite different when dealing with files that are uploaded to FTP FTPS or SFTP Servers Uploading files from a local folder to an FTP server SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 76 BatchSync Secure FTPS
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173. verify that syne run is successful If transfer results are not within set limits syne run is flagged with error F Total number of files transferred is between 5 5 _ Total size for all files transferred is between MB Examples If always exactly 10 files should be transferred set Min 10 and Max 10 If always 2 or more files should be transferred set Min 2 and Max lt leave empty gt If always over 100MB should be transferred set Min 100 and Max lt leave empty gt Cancel Help If anything but 5 files are transferred sync task is flagged with an error even though there were no actual transfer errors in the sync run This will trigger the automatic email notification to be sent if Send email after sync run completed with errors is enabled in Email tab 5 18 Edit Server window 5 18 1 General tab SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 106 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP Edit Site amp Server General Firewall Timeouts Options Options 2 SFTP EIES Site label Enter free form MuwebServer label for the site d optional Host address op ftp mysite com E Use IPv6 Enter server address or ip 2 Username number Enter login user eusexyz E Anonymous login name a Enter login password Select rat Protocol Port elect protocol Options are tFTP j2 FTP FTPS and Data connection mode File transfer mode SFTP and latter Passive mode
174. w 1000 as a larger setting will slow down the program startup Fonts The Sync Sync Preview window uses these fonts and colors to display the list of files to download upload and delete The files that won t be transferred are the ones that are already in sync SiteDesigner Technologies Inc 80 BatchSync Secure FTPS SFTP 5 14 Messages Show message box window The software displays a message box window before or after certain actions are taken You can control what messages you want to see and what messages you think are not necessary and maybe just slow down your work Show notification popup message Notification popup messages are shown in the lower right hand corner of the computer screen in the notification area above the task bar These messages alert you to the completion of a sync preview or sync run Popups are handy in cases like when a sync is run in the background and you want to be notified when the sync run is complete Note Notification popup messages are only shown when running a sync task in Task Editor They are not shown when running syncs with the command line SYNC EXE tool SSH public key authentication BatchSync can use a public key authentication method for SSH logins In this method the public private key pair is used to authenticate the user instead of a password This method provides better safety by preventing brute force SSH attacks when password based authentication methods
175. way and Two way syncs Recursively sync folders and their sub folders optionally exclude sub folders with filters Filter files to include by file folder name size date changed and attributes Filter files to exclude by file folder name size date changed and attributes Set up rules to handle conflicts same file changed on both source and destination Automatically resume interrupted transfers Automatically reconnect and resume an unlimited number of times user defined max retries timeouts etc Optionally delete files on destination that do not exist on source Extensive logging options with automatic log file rotation schemes Sync local network and FTP folders Secure edition adds support for FTPS and SFTP over SSH2 protocols Full list of features Click here to see a full list of features and learn about the differences between the BatchSync and InstantSync editions Getting Started Please read the overview and step by step tutorial to get started using BatchSync SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Part Il BatchSync vs InstantSync BatchSync vs InstantSync 7 2 BatchSync vs InstantSync BatchSync and InstantSync are smart and fast tools for folder synchronization InstantSync is the perfect solution for webmasters and system administrators who need to sync folders with a few mouse clicks BatchSync contains all the features of InstantSync and adds the possibility of running sync tasks as sc
176. y gt field values of the certificate You 0 Subject ST lt empty gt C lt empty gt can use either field for 0 Issuer CN EssentialSSL CA estes oe 0 Issuer OU lt empty gt O COMODO CA Limited L Salford 0 Issuer ST Greater Manchester C GB 0 Valid 5 3 2014 3 6 2014 23 59 59 0 SHA1 fingerprint 98 2d 6a d5 e2 e0 aa 58 10 97 22 ec 36 77 fd f2 c6 18 de 46 0 MD5 fingerprint f2 ab 52 b8 9b 66 05 b5 7f c0 92 61 cb 2e 0b X Log Threads Sync Preview completed successfully 15 files 11 02 MB to transfer Le d 3 In the log pane you can see that certificate has Subject CN www sitedesigner com so we will use that for comparison Close Sync Preview and select Edit Task gt Edit Server gt FTPS tab A Select Subject Common Name CN field matches from the drop down combo list Enter www sitedesigner com to text field below it The entered value must match exactly with certificate Subject CN field value SiteDesigner Technologies Inc Reference Manual 117 eZ y Edit Site amp Server General Firewall Timeouts Options Options 2 SFTP FTPS SSL Certificate Validation Accept any certificate but display a warning Accept only certificate if its SHA1 fingerprint matches X 98 2d 6a d5 e2 e0 aa 58 10 97 22 ec 36 77 fd f2 c6 18 de 46 Accept only certificates that can be fully validated and its Subject Common Name CN field mat

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