Using SyncBackPro > Basic Operation

If you right-click on a profile then a pop-up menu appears with a number of menu items. Many of these functions can be used with multiple-profiles. There are a number of ways to select multiple profiles, for example:

•Press Ctrl-A to select all profiles (to unselect all press Ctrl-U).

•While holding down the Ctrl key click on the profiles you want selected.

•You can select a range of profiles by clicking on a profile, then while holding down the Shift key, click another profile.

Some of the menu items may not be available due to limitations. For example, some functions cannot be used with groups (e.g. Open Left/Source) or they can only be used with a single profile and not multiple profiles (e.g. Modify). If your screen resolution is low some items will be removed, otherwise the menu will be too long to be displayed. Also, many of the menu items will also show the shortcut key. For example, you can run profiles by selecting them and using the shortcut key Ctrl-R

•Run (Ctrl-R): Runs the selected profiles.

•Run (Unattended): Runs the selected profiles in unattended mode. This means there will be no prompting and the Differences window will not be displayed.

•Run (No Action changes allowed): Runs the selected profiles, and display the Differences window, but does not allow any changes to be made to the actions or any versions to be restored. Also no prompts will be made (if the profile is configured to prompt for actions). Instead of prompting the file or folder will be skipped. This option is for use with Fast Backup profiles where you want the Differences window to appear but do not want the versions to be scanned.

•Run (Prompted): Runs the selected profiles prompted.

•Simulated Run (Ctrl-S): Runs the selected profiles in simulation mode.

•Simulated Run (Prompted): Runs the selected profiles in simulation mode, prompted.

•Integrity Check (Ctrl-S): Runs the selected profiles in Integrity Checking mode.

•Restore: Runs the selected profiles in restore mode.

•Simulated Restore: Runs the selected profiles in simulated restore mode.

•Queue: The sub-menu allows for queuing of profiles and clearing the queue.

•Open Left/Source: Using Windows File Explorer, it will open to the source/left folder on the selected profiles.

•Open Right/Destination: Using Windows File Explorer, it will open to the destination/right folder on the selected profiles. Note that some destinations cannot be opened, e.g. if you are performing a backup to the cloud then it will not do anything. For FTP, it will use the FTP URL ftp://[user ID:password@]<host name>[:port]/[path/]

•Modify (Ctrl-M): Modifies the selected profile.

•Compare two profiles: The settings of two profiles are compared and a report of the differences is shown. If you select two profiles before choosing this option then those two are compared, otherwise you are asked which profile to compare the selected one with. You can compare two profiles, or two groups, but not one of each. The profile setup window is not opened, so nothing can be changed by accident. See the Profile Comparison Report below.

•Compare with defaults: The settings of the selected profile are compared with the defaults you saved using Save as defaults on the profile setup window. If you have never saved any defaults then the profile is compared with the factory settings instead, and the report shows which was used. This is a quick way of seeing which settings you have changed. Groups are compared with the group defaults. See the Profile Comparison Report below.

•Schedule: Creates or modifies the profiles schedule.

•Delete (Del): Deletes the selected profiles.

•Rename (F2): Renames the selected profiles.

•Copy (Ctrl-C): Makes a copy of the selected profile.

•Export Profile: Exports the selected profiles. Exporting profiles lets you import them into other installations of SyncBackPro and is also a way of making a backup of a profile. In the Global Settings window, you can configure SyncBack to automatically make backups of all your profiles when it exits.

•Upload Profile to SBM Service: The selected profile is uploaded to the SBM Service. See the SyncBack Management Service help page for more details. If this option is not enabled then you are either not logged into SBMS or your user account in SBMS is not using the admin role.

•Enable: Enables a previously disabled profile. Enabling a profile does not automatically enable any scheduled tasks the profile has.

•Disable: Disables the selected profiles. A disabled profile cannot be run by any method (including scheduled, manually, etc.). You cannot disable group profiles. Disabling a profile does not automatically disable any scheduled tasks the profile has.

•Clear groups result: The selected groups will have their last Result cleared.

•Rescan: The selected profiles, if they are Fast Backup profiles, will have their Fast Backup data cleared and a re-scan will be forced on the next run. This is the same as modifying the profile(s) and clicking the Force re-scan button.

•Background Colour: This allows you to change the background colour of a profile. To reset/clear a profiles background colour select Clear. Background colours are purely cosmetic and have no affect on the profile itself.

•Text Colour: This allows you to change the text colour of a profile. To reset/clear a profiles text colour select Clear. Text colours are purely cosmetic and have no affect on the profile itself. The colour used will be used for all the text for that profile row in the main windows, e.g. Aborted text will be in that colour.

•Refresh (F5): The display is refreshed so the information display is current. This can be useful if you have profiles running in another instance of SyncBackPro, e.g. via a schedule, and the display isn't refreshing automatically.

•Select all (Ctrl-A): All the visible profiles are selected. If you have an unexpanded group then those profiles in the group will not be selected.

•Unselect all (Ctrl-U): The current selections are de-selected.

•View Log: The log for the selected profiles is displayed. Note that you may have a history of logs for a profile so you can choose which log to display using the sub-menu. To display the latest log you can press Ctrl-L.

•View Debug Log: The debug log for the selected profiles is displayed. Debug logs are for internal use.

•Pause: The selected profiles are paused. To resume them select Resume.

•Resume: If paused, the selected profiles are resumed.

•Stop: The selected profiles are stopped. If the profile is being run as part of a group then the entire group is stopped.

•Stop profile only, not group (Ctrl-O): The selected profiles are stopped, but not the group it is running as a part of.

Profile Comparison Report

Only the settings that differ are listed. Each one is shown under the setup page it belongs to and uses the same wording as that page, so you can go straight to it. The report is built from the settings stored on disk, so anything you have changed in a profile setup window but not yet saved is not included.

•Passwords and other secrets are never shown in the report. They appear as ***, so you can see that they differ without revealing them. (empty) means nothing is stored.

•A few settings are stored as a number whose meaning depends on the computer, such as the speech voice, which comes from the voices Windows has installed. For those the report can only say that the two profiles differ, shown as (differs) on both sides.

•For filters, variables, tags and similar lists, only the entries that differ are listed rather than the whole list. Long lists are shortened with (and 12 more). Holding the same entries in a different order is not treated as a difference.

•When two profiles use different shared settings, the report says which shared settings each one uses rather than comparing every setting inside them. (local to profile) means that profile is not using shared settings.

•The labels come from the profile you started the comparison from, including the names it uses for its two sides. If the other profile names its sides differently, for example Left and Right instead of Source and Destination, the labels still use the first profile's names.

•When two groups are compared, the profiles in each group are compared as well. If both groups contain the same profiles but in a different order then both orders are shown, because for a group queue the order is the order they run in.

Not everything is compared

A profile stores the settings for every page whether or not you are using that feature, so comparing all of them would bury the differences that matter under ones that cannot have any effect. These are left out:

•Settings behind a feature that is switched off. The page carrying the switch is still compared, so you can see that compression is on for one profile and off for the other, but the pages behind that switch are only compared when both profiles use the feature.

•If the two profiles send their files to different kinds of place, for example one to FTP and the other to a cloud service, only Destination type is reported. Those pages have almost no settings in common, so working through them line by line would say nothing useful.

•Intelligent Sync decides what to do with a file in a completely different way from every other profile type, using its own set of settings and leaving the ordinary ones untouched. If one profile uses it and the other does not, the report gives the Profile type of each instead of comparing the Type pages.

•Settings that are not about what the profile does are never listed. That includes the layout of the Differences window, the columns of the history list, and settings used only for support or internal testing.

•A small number of settings cannot be matched to a page and are listed at the end under Other differences, using the internal setting name. This is normal.

•When comparing with defaults there is no Other differences section. The defaults hold only the settings you chose to save, so everything missing from them would otherwise be reported as a difference.

Use the Copy button to put the whole report on the clipboard, for example to paste into an email.

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