Create Synchronicity User Manual
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1. quiet silent nostop run all Pro fileName1 ProfileName2 ProfileName3 will queue v3 5 profiles ProfileNamel ProfileName2 etc for synchronization optionally displaying a preview for each Use all instead of profile names to sync all profiles preview will display a preview before syncing quiet will minimize the program to an icon in the system tray silent supersedes quiet system admins only will prevent the program from interacting with the desktop in any way Application logging is enabled see log all v6 0 will sync all profiles Note on queuing profiles Create Synchronicity will wait 5 seconds before moving from one profile on to the next When queuing profiles ensure that you use quotation marks and that you separate profile names with a pipe character eg Create Synchronicity exe run One Two If you do not use the quiet switch Create Synchronicity will wait for a confirmation after running each profile unless you add the nostop switch The program will exit after completing its tasks 3 7 2 Warning It s highly recommended to test your backup settings before running profiles from the command line 3 8 Advanced use 3 8 1 Syncing to network drives v3 5 Create Synchronicity has native support for UNC paths ie paths such as 192 168 0 25 My RootFolder MyFolder Create Synchronicity can easily be used to backup or sync files to a network drive to do so2. you can directly use v3 5 a UNC path You can also map your network drive to a particular letter for easier access right click My Computer and use the connect a network drive option Choose a letter for your drive and synchronize to this drive A more detailed help on this procedure is available from Microsoft 3 9 Special commands hidden settings See also the FAQ This section may describe unreleased features Should you need such features please download an updated build 3 9 1 Enabling expert mode v5 1 You can enable a few extra options by adding Expert mode True to your mainconfig ini file or by pressing Ctr1 A1t E in the main window Starting from revision 1130 enabling expert mode adds an extra menu to the basic settings window which lets you configure some of the settings mentioned in this section 3 9 2 Note about hidden settings Most of the following sections of this guide describe manual modification of your configuration files These files are located in the config folder of your installation directory and follow a profilename sync naming convention Modifications are usually limited to appending a line to the corresponding config file Note Some of the following tweaks require enabling expert mode Tip Pressing Ctr1 0 in the main window will open the folder where your profiles are stored 3 9 3 Dealing with messy DST settings Create Synchronicity has a DST compensation setting You might howeve
3. proxy support due to mono limitation and doesn t integrate well in the Gnome desktop 12 4 Appendix keyboard shortcuts 4 1 Main window Shortcut Action Enter Launches a preview for the profile currently selected F1 Opens this manual F2 Starts renaming the current profile F5 Reload profiles Ctrl N Creates a new profile Ctrl1 L Cycles through display modes Ctrl Zooms in Ctrl Zooms out Ctr1 0 Opens the config folder Ctrl1 A1t E Toggles expert mode 4 2 Preview window Shortcut Action Ctrl L Opens the log file Ctrl D Opens a diff between the current and previous version of the selected file see advanced settings 5 Legal notes This program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation either version 3 of the License or at your option any later version 6 Further help 6 1 Bugs As much as I try to avoid it there may still be bugs in Create Synchronicity If you think you found one please to take the time to send me a bug report at sourceforge tracker If you don t want to create an account you can e mail me directly 6 2 Feature requests There is a feature requests tracker on SourceForge You can also e mail me of course 6 3 Questions Contact If you have any questions regarding Create Synchronicity you can send me an e mail createsoft wareQusers sourceforge net In case of pr
4. Help Contents 1 Preliminary note 1 2 Installing and uninstalling 1 3 Using Create Synchronicity to backup synchronize your files dl Selecting a ANIA 4 ie ea oe Ra eek A ee Ow A Oe Wa Be oe ke A E A e a o A IR 3 4 3 5 3 6 3 7 3 8 3 9 3 3 1 3 3 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 3 3 5 SCOUT He ee A He ae Gas o ecs 62044 RA Sa i av ee be eee whee ee ee EA DR ae ae PYUGHTONIZAHON o o c 2 4 ie dee eee ee da eae ewe ee ee he a COMETA LIME 00 Ao a ae Date ee e we ded amp eB id rin de a ie dekl 3 1 2 Advanced UE sk e Cal Se e me hk e we OE a vee a ae Sed Soe de 3 8 1 Special commands hidden Settings e o s a udes ca po ee a es 3 9 1 3 9 2 3 9 3 3 9 4 3 9 5 3 9 6 339 1 3 9 8 3 9 9 3 9 10 3 9 11 3 9 12 3 9 13 3 9 14 3 9 15 3 9 16 Selecting a synchronization method ooo e selecting files and folders soccer ee SD a we ee ee ee a E a Supported path formats v3 5 2 20 ee ee Including or excluding specific files v3 0 o o ooo ooo o AV BCcdSCUUMES 2 ra ao eee A a a R S Available commands e 1 ti a A ER ee es e o WATHIDE o o ka a ee a E de Aa e A Syncing to network drives e e Enabling expert mode v5 14 o o ooo Note about hidden settings e e Dealing with messy DST settings Grouping profiles o sasos s et s i ae ea a a Gk i Auto creating root destination direc
5. board shortcuts 3 3 Settings window Online Backup profile settings a Directories From D Swap To 192 168 0 200 volume_1 Subdirectories Left side Right side a a a I RECYCLE BIN i a systemfile J H Documents la Documents 3 a E Documents And Settings T Fichiers Syst me to Fichiers Syst me Images i ai Z Images Musique EY Musique E Photos Synchronization method Left to Right Mirror Left to Right Incremental Two ways incremental Move your mouse over an option to see a more detailed description Y Strict mirror revert files that were modified on the right Include or exclude file types Copy all files Y Replicate empty directories Include these files only Exclude these files desktop ini db DSC_ 0 9 jpo Advanced options 7 Propagate updates E Strict file time comparison Compute a hash before copying slow Time offset 1 hours E Gee Figure 3 Create Synchronicity Settings Win7 Settings for Music player synchronization profile Directories From D Musique Cl ment artistes To SA Subdirectories Left side Right side em al ga amp abba e Ac De E Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say 1 Am That s Whe E MBackstreet Boys C Greatest Hits Chapter One x lt l gt Synchronicityization method O Left to Right Mirror O Left to Right Incremental Two ways incremental Move your mouse over an op
6. canning for new mod ified or deleted folders This yields a substantial improvement but does have a cost Create Synchronicity doesn t estimate how long a backup will take 3 10 Server builds System admins v5 0 A special command line switch is available silent that slightly changes the behaviour of the quiet com mand and enables application logging so that no interaction happens at all message boxes and balloons are disabled This switch is mainly designed to ease the work of system administrators who want to sched ule Create Synchronicity with the default Windows tasks scheduler thus bypassing Create Synchronicity s custom scheduling engine Important note This switch has been designed to minimize the interaction required System adminis trators are strongly advised to have a look every now and then to the app log file in order to make sure that nothing is preventing the backups from happening Note to Windows 7 users You may need to run this software in Administrator Mode for the synchro nization to work perfectly 3 11 Running Create Synchronicity under Linux Support for Linux based operating systems was added in revision 1127 using the Mono stack A special up to date Linux build is available from the latest builds page This version is purely experi mental extensive testing is required before it can be safely used by everyone For now this version is restricted to early testers it notably lacks scheduling
7. d synchronization to end before launching the second and so on For example if Profilel is scheduled to run at 10 00 and Profile2 at 10 05 then Profile2 will not start before Profilel has finished synchronizing Of course if Profilel completes before 10 05 Profile2 will run at 10 05 If the behaviour is not desired you may force multiple profiles to run simultaneously by combining the Windows Tasks Scheduler and the run command line switch 3 5 Preview m le Type Action Direction Path 2 Folder Create Left gt Right Test Algorithme File Create Left gt Right Test Algorithme scan cpp BH File Create Left gt Right Test Algorithme small scan cpp Folder Create Left gt Right Test Algorithme Algo Incomplets Synchronizing Efile Create Left gt Right Test Algorithme Algo Incomplets Armoire c File Create Left gt Right Test Algorithme Algo Incomplets Baliser le BH File Create Left gt Right Test Algorithme Algo Incomplets Coinc e c File Create Left gt Right Test Algorithme Algo Incomplets Nombre c BH File Create Left gt Right Test Algorithme Algo Incomplets out txt BM File Create Left gt Right Test Algorithme Algo Incomplets Vaches pl File Delete Right gt Left Documents Cl ment Documents list txt File Delete Right gt Left Documents Cl ment Programmes C hih File Delete Right gt Left Documents Cl ment Programmes Visual Bas 4 m Elapsed time 1m 19s Speed 2095 files s __ Synchr
8. e extension without quotes Example to exclude tar and zip files type in the exclude box tar zip e To include exclude a file by name use the name enclosed in quotes with the extension Example Hello exe Report doc e To use a regexp regular expression enclose it in forward slashes Example Picture 0 9 jpglraw png v6 0 To exclude hidden files see the Advanced section 3 3 5 Advanced Settings The Time offset option v2 2 is useful when your computer time has changed for example during daylight saving time For example when adding a one hour time offset Create Synchronicity adjusts file times by adding one hour before comparing them The Strict file time comparison option v3 0 when disabled makes the file time checking which Create Synchronicity uses to determine which files should be copied a little bit looser file times are the allowed to differ by up to 4 seconds disable this to fix weird FAT NTES related bugs Unchecking Replicate empty directories will exclude empty folders from the synchronization Unchecking Propagate updates will exclude updated files from future synchronizations Both of these settings should remain checked in most situations 3 4 Scheduling Scheduling El Y Enable scheduling for this profile Every day Every week on Monday Y Every month on day 1 At 2015 o E Save Cancel Figure 5 Create Synchronicity Sched
9. gorithm used is mdb To enable this feature for a profile add Checksum True on a new line of the corresponding profile configuration file Enabling this option will actually enable two tests one while scanning for modified files preview phase to ensure absolute backup integrity and one after copying your files In case a verification fails a message will be added to the log file 3 9 13 Text only logs v5 2 Should you prefer your logs to be saved as text instead of html append Text logs True to your main configuration file 3 9 14 Specifying how many log entries should be archived v5 2 The default in Create Synchronicity is to keep 7 entries in the log files You can customize this behaviour by appending Archived log entries n in your main configuration file 3 9 15 Wake up actions post sync actions v6 0 Create Synchronicity can run scripts when starting or completing a synchronization provided that expert mode is enabled These scripts are profile specific and are enabled by adding Wakeup ac 11 tion path to script or Post sync action path to script to the corresponding profile configuration file profilename sync Wake up scripts are called in a blocking way while post sync scripts are called in a non blocking way In both cases the script receives only one parameter the absolute path to the destination 3 9 16 Forecasts For performance reasons Create Synchronicity doesn t read file size information when s
10. lowing line to your profile configuration file Excluded folder patterns a SVN In the previous example any directory ending with a or SVN will not be synced Note Although source directories matching the exclusion pattern will not be created or updated in the destination existing ones will not be removed You can hence safely exclude system folders e g System Volume Information 3 9 8 Auto including newly created folders in some edge cases Suppose you are syncing from C to D and you don t want certain folders say C a and C b to be copied to D You should first create a profile where you uncheck C a and C b But then if you create a folder at C c Create Synchronicity won t be able to guess if it should be synced and will default to not syncing it On the opposite if you had included all subfolders of C Create Synchronicity would include it as well If you want newly created folders to be included anyway you should take a different approach select all C subfolders and then add the following line to your configuration file Excluded folder patterns a b Then Create Synchronicity will know that it should ignore folders C a and C b You can even use regular expressions using the same syntax as the one defined for including and excluding files Please note that if they exist D a and D b won t be deleted 10 3 9 9 Forcing stronger checks while scanning for modified files v5 2 Create Synchronici
11. n Win7 Create Synchronicity Actions 7 New profile Profiles C drive backup e My Documents Backup Preview Synchronize Change Settings Delete View log E Music player aa 7 Name synchronizati Limited copy Yes 3 Two ways s Method inorernental Filetypes Source D Musique Cl ment Artistes Destination s Figure 2 Create Synchronicity Main Create Synchronicity s main window displays all existing configurations illustrated by an icon showing what they are intended to do Details about the selected configuration profile are displayed in the bottom of the window when you click the name of a profile To create a new profile click the New Profile icon To rename a profile right click it or use the F2 key To display available actions for an item just click it Multiple actions are displayed e Preview loads a preview of the actions to apply to the file system to synchronize the folders that you have selected e Synchronize starts synchronizing directly without displaying a preview e Change Settings displays the configuration window e Delete deletes the profile e Rename renames the profile e View log displays a log of all backups done e Clear log clears the profile log e Scheduling displays more option about scheduling your backup profile Note You can change views or change font size using key
12. oblems I ve set up an alternate e mail address createsoft ware proxy AT gmail com 13 7 Mailing lists Two mailing lists have been created which are designed for announcements only synchronicity updates announcing major updates and synchronicity commits listing commits 14
13. onize as Files created 0 Folders 0 Done o Total 563 Figure 6 Create Synchronicity Preview A list of all actions which will be executed by Create Synchronicity is displayed so that you can review these changes before applying these actions 3 6 Synchronization Synchronizing Step 1 Building files list Done Step 2 Copying files left to right D 2 trunk Create Synchronicity Icons program icons svn text base creat PELE ECE EET j Step 3 Cleaning up and copying files right to left Waiting Elapsed time 1s Speed 5 91MB s Files created 180 Folders 32 Done 212 Total 303 Figure 7 Create Synchronicity Synchronizing It is always possible to stop synchronizing after you started However already copied files are not deleted and deleted files are not recovered 3 7 Command line Create Synchronicity can be started from the command line To do so head to the program s installation folder and type in a command prompt Create Synchronicity exe command 3 7 1 Available commands e help v5 0 will display information about the program and where the configuration files are stored e scheduler will run the scheduling engine in background Useful if you need to immediately re start the scheduler e log v5 0 will enable application logging to a file called app log in the application installation directory e preview
14. oves the modifications and resets the files contents to match that of the original file 3 3 2 Selecting files and folders The tutorial has plenty of extra information e v4 0 The default action when selecting a folder is to include all its subfolders e A tick before the name of a folder means that the files in this folder will be synchronized Subfolders won t be backed up unless they are checked too e Right clicking a folder will give you a list of options to finetune your selection Note By right clicking a node you ll be able to synchronize a folder s contents without synchronizing its subfolders a feature specific to Create Synchronicity Note Create Synchronicity does not recreate the source root folder ie if you re syncing from C A to C B then you won t get a C B A folder 3 3 3 Supported path formats v3 5 You can use the following path formats e Absolute C MyFolder e Relative MyFolder e UNC 192 168 0 150 MyFolder e By Volume Name Enclose volume name in quotes MyDrive MyFolder Environment variables such as UserProfile are automatically expanded Expert users can use dynamic variables such as ZDAY ZYEARZ etc See further 3 3 4 Including or excluding specific files v3 0 You can include or exclude files by name extension or by creating a regular expression to match the name extension Separate patterns using semicolons e To include exclude files by extension use th
15. pped by volunteers only and thus developers thankfully accept donations which are a very nice way to show you support to an open source project 2 Installing and uninstalling Create Synchronicity can either be installed to your hard drive or launched without installing from a Zip archive Tip Uninstalling Create Synchronicity prior to updating is not needed 3 Using Create Synchronicity to backup synchronize your files Create Synchronicity has been designed to backup and synchronize your files and folders in a fast and simple way through a light and yet powerful interface It is fully portable and weights about 180 kB zipped Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows Vista and Windows Seven are supported To run Create Syn chronicity you must install the Net Framework version 2 0 or later 3 1 Selecting a language To change Create Synchronicity language go to the About Settings menu select your language and restart the program If your language is not included why not translate Create Synchronicity by yourself 3 2 Main window Create Synchronicity ES Actions About Settings COEM Profiles 2 C Backup DAP synchronization dp Left to Right Incr Left to Right Mirror A Documents Two ways increm Create a new Name profile Limited copy Source Method Filetypes Destination Figure 1 Create Synchronicity Mai
16. r especially if many of your files differ by 1 hour from the source want to use the fuzzy DST setting enabled by adding Fuzzy DST compensation True on a separate line to the corresponding profilename sync file 3 9 4 Grouping profiles You can reorganize profiles and group them by adding Group GroupName on a separate line to the corre sponding profilename sync file or by using the expert menu in the profile configuration window 3 9 5 Auto creating root destination directory Expert mode only In Create Synchronicity the ZDATE environment variable is mapped to the current date with as date separator If you want to backup to a dynamic destination based on current date you can use this constant in your destination path You must however tell Create Synchronicity to automatically create the root directory when starting a sync the corresponding setting is available in the profile settings dialog in expert mode only Other variables include 4MMMYYYY 4DAY MONTH and YEARS 3 9 6 v6 0 Excluding hidden files and folders To exclude hidden files and folders add Exclude hidden entries True on a separate line of your pro filename sync file 3 9 7 Using regular expressions to exclude specific folders Using the same syntax as described in the regular expressions section of this manual Net regular expres sions you can force Create Synchronicity to exclude some specific folders To do so simply add the fol
17. tion to see a more detailed description Include or exclude file types Do not copy all files C Replicate empty directories Include these files only O Exclude these files mp3 wma flac ape ogg L Figure 4 Create Synchronicity Settings 3 3 1 Selecting a synchronization method Create Synchronicity features three synchronization methods which define how the program will deal with newly created and deleted files e Left to right Mirror New and modified files are copied from left to right Deletions that occurred on the left are replicated mirrored on the right In this case the right folder becomes an exact copy of the left one except that files updated on the right side are not reverted to their original statel e Left to right Incremental New and modified files are copied from left to right but deletions are not In this case the right folder somehow keeps an incremental history of changes that occurred on the left e Two ways Incremental New and modified files are copied from left to right and from right to left No deletions occur This is especially useful if changes occur also in the destination eg your documents on a USB stick 1 Unless strict mirror is selected The Strict mirror option ensures that the right side remains an exact copy of the left one when enabled if Create Synchronicity detects changes in the destination then it reverts the file to its original state that is it rem
18. tory Expert mode only v6 0 Excluding hidden files and folders 2 2 2 0 0 0 000002 eae Using regular expressions to exclude specific folders 00 O O O OO UO UO WHO WOAAAONNN DTA TK BP Pwd Ff FE Auto including newly created folders in some edge cases 04 Forcing stronger checks while scanning for modified files v5 2 10 Diff File comparison v5 2 2 ee 10 On the fly compression gzip and bzip2 v5 2 o o oo e e 10 Mab Validation 2 a 2404 44 5004 Wia A Ra ne 10 Text only logs V5 2 o c ecse 2 oe ee eee EN a ee EE Ae 10 Specifying how many log entries should be archived v5 2 24 10 Wake up actions post sync actions v6 0 2 002 002 ee eee 10 Forecasts su po sid sb be Pee eRe ee Oe ee ee A 2 11 3 10 Server builds System admins v5 0 2 0 0 o eee ee ee ee 11 3 11 Running Create Synchronicity under Linux 2 00002 eee eee 11 4 Appendix keyboard shortcuts 12 AM Mam GR or ce a we ee de a Ra eae Es ok ee EO 12 A PESTO WANGOW cons be a ee he oe eA ee De eee al a de 12 5 Legal notes 12 6 Further help 12 Ol A Oe Oa ee ee EE os ee oe ee ed Aa 12 6 2 Feature FOQUES S 4 sa so bP baa wwe ob a hee EEE DR Dee we ees 12 6 3 Questions Contact s lt oc ne s eaae daora i iaa A Daas 12 7 Mailing lists 13 1 Preliminary note Create Synchronicity is open source This means that it is develo
19. ty uses last modification date to compare files and determine which should be synchro nized If you want file size too be scrutinized as well then add Check file size True to your sync profile 3 9 10 Diff File comparison v5 2 Create Synchronicity can show a diff of modified files For this you ll need to set two hidden settings Diff program and Diff arguments in you mainconfig ini file The first should point to your diff program the second should list both o expands to the path to the original file and n expands to the path to the new file Example you can add the following to your mainconfig ini file Diff program C Program Files TortoiseSVN bin TortoiseMerge exe Diff arguments o Zn Press Ctrl D in the preview window to launch your diff program 3 9 11 On the fly compression gzip and bzip2 v5 2 You can use Create Synchronicity to create compressed backups that is save gzipped or bzip2 ed copies of your files instead of the files themselves by adding Compress gz or Compress bz2 on a new line of the corresponding profile configuration file You ll need to extract the extension pack downloadable from the latest builds page to the root of your installation directory prior to using this feature Note This feature is still experimental and should not be used but by experts 3 9 12 Md5 Validation v5 2 For extra safety you can force Create Synchronicity to validate files after copying The al
20. uling You can choose between three scheduling options e Every day at a specific time e Every week on a specific week day at a specific time e Every month on a specific month day at a specific time Create Synchronicity will automatically start the scheduler when needed Likewise if you disable schedul ing for all profiles where it was previously enabled then the program will unregister from your startup list v5 1 When the catch up setting is enabled Create Synchronicity will run any synchronization that was postponed by more than two days That is if a backup was supposed to occur on January 1st 5 PM and then computer was not powered at that time then from January 7 and until the backup has successfully been started Create Synchronicity will periodically try to start it v5 2 Note Create Synchronicity will only mark a profile as caught up if the synchronization completes If the computer is turned off or if the backup is is cancelled before completion then Create Synchronicity will mark the profile for catching up at next boot or 4 hours later whichever comes first Note When you turn scheduling on Create Synchronicity registers as a startup program which runs in background You can see if Create Synchronicity is running by checking for the double arrow icon in your status bar Note When multiple profiles are scheduled Create Synchronicity will run them sequentially that is it will wait for the first schedule
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