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-<H3 CLASS="western"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Batch Scripting
-<SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">(Windows)</SPAN></FONT></H3>
+<H2 CLASS="western"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 15pt">Batch
+Scripting</FONT></FONT></H2>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
</P>
-<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">In
-order to facilitate using FreeFileSync and RealtimeSync in advanced
-synchronization scenarios, creating batch files is a good way to
-provide additional functionality. The following section will give
-some general hints and examples for custom *.cmd and *.bat files.</FONT></P>
+<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">FreeFileSync
+can be called from command line and supports integration into batch
+scripts. This section gives some general hints and examples for
+Windows *.cmd and *.bat scripts.</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
</P>
-<UL>
- <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">When
- starting a batch file from RealtimeSync make synchronous calls to
- FreeFileSync only. This will prevent RealtimeSync continue detecting
- changes while synchronization is still in progress.<BR>&nbsp;</FONT></P>
- <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">During
- execution of a Windows Batch file (*.bat/*.cmd) a black console
- window is shown. You can hide it using the Visual Basic script
- &quot;RunSilent.vbs&quot; located in FreeFileSync's installation
- directory.</FONT></P>
-</UL>
-<OL>
- <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Usage:</B></FONT></P>
-</OL>
-<P STYLE="margin-left: 1.32cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><SPAN ID="Rahmen1" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 80%; height: 0.14cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; background: #e6e6e6">
- <P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-left: 0.79cm; margin-right: 0.98cm; margin-bottom: 0cm">
- <FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">wscript C:\Program
- files\FreeFileSync\Invisible.vbs C:\MyBatchFile.cmd</FONT></P>
+<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">When
+FreeFileSync is started in batch mode (a *.ffs_batch file is passed
+as argument) it returns one of the following status codes:</FONT></P>
+<P STYLE="margin-left: 1.46cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><SPAN ID="Rahmen1" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 80%; height: 0.14cm; border: 1px solid #000080; padding: 0.05cm; background: #ccccff">
+ <UL>
+ <P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-right: 0.98cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Return
+ Codes</B></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><BR>0 -
+ Synchronization completed successfully<BR>1 - Synchronization
+ completed with errors<BR>2 - Synchronization was aborted</SPAN></FONT></P>
+ </UL>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR>
</P>
-<UL>
- <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">FreeFileSync
- returns with an Errorlevel below zero if unresolved problems remain:</FONT></P>
-</UL>
-<P STYLE="margin-left: 1.32cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><SPAN ID="Rahmen2" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 80%; height: 0.14cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; background: #e6e6e6">
+<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Now
+you can check if synchronization was successful from a script:</FONT></P>
+<P STYLE="margin-left: 1.32cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><SPAN ID="Rahmen6" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 80%; height: 0.14cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; background: #e6e6e6">
<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-left: 0.79cm; margin-right: 0.98cm; margin-bottom: 0cm">
<FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">&quot;C:\Program
- Files\FreeFileSync\FreeFileSync.exe&quot;
- &quot;H:\Silent_Config.ffs_batch&quot;<BR>if not errorlevel 0
- (<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><FONT COLOR="#808080"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><I><B>::if
- something went wrong, add special treatment here<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;</B></I></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">echo
+ Files\FreeFileSync\FreeFileSync.exe&quot; &quot;H:\some
+ folder\SyncJob.ffs_batch&quot;<BR>if errorlevel 1 (<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><FONT COLOR="#808080"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><I><B>::if
+ return code is 1 or greater, something went wrong, add special
+ treatment here<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;</B></I></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">echo
Errors occurred during synchronization...</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT COLOR="#808080"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><I><B><BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;</B></I></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">pause<BR>)</FONT></FONT></P>
</SPAN><BR CLEAR=LEFT><BR>
</P>
+<P STYLE="margin-left: 1.32cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Instead
+of displaying &quot;An error occurred!&quot; you can also send an
+email notification (using a third party tool).</FONT>
+</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
</P>
-<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Example:</B>
-Shutdown PC after synchronization</FONT></P>
-<P STYLE="margin-left: 1.32cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><SPAN ID="Rahmen4" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 80%; height: 0.14cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; background: #e6e6e6">
+<P STYLE="margin-left: 1.46cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><SPAN ID="Rahmen3" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 80%; height: 0.14cm; border: 1px solid #000080; padding: 0.05cm; background: #ccccff">
<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-left: 0.79cm; margin-right: 0.98cm; margin-bottom: 0cm">
- &nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT COLOR="#808080"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><I><B>::start
- FreeFileSync Batch
- Job<BR></B></I></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">&quot;C:\Users\ZenJu\Desktop\SyncJob.ffs_batch&quot;<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><FONT COLOR="#808080"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><I><B>::schedule
- shutdown after 10 seconds<BR></B></I></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">shutdown
- /s /t 10</FONT></P>
+ <FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Attention<BR></B>Make sure your
+ script is not blocked by a popup dialog. Consider the following
+ options when setting up a FreeFileSync batch job:</FONT></P>
+ <UL>
+ <LI><P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Disable
+ checkbox &quot;<I>Show progress dialog</I>&quot; or have &quot;On
+ completion&quot; automatically close the results dialog after
+ synchronization.</FONT></P>
+ <LI><P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Set
+ &quot;</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Error
+ handling</SPAN></I></FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">&quot;
+ to &quot;</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Exit
+ instantly</SPAN></I></FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">&quot;
+ or &quot;</SPAN></FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Ignore
+ errors</SPAN></I></FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">&quot;.</SPAN></FONT></P>
+ </UL>
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</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><BR>
</P>
-<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Example:</B>
-A simple locking facility &ndash; (<SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Note:</B></SPAN>
-<I>FreeFileSync already has a more powerful directory locking
-mechanism implemented that allows multiple writers in parallel</I>)</FONT></P>
-<P STYLE="margin-left: 1.32cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><SPAN ID="Rahmen3" DIR="LTR" STYLE="float: left; width: 80%; height: 0.14cm; border: none; padding: 0cm; background: #e6e6e6">
- <P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-left: 0.79cm; margin-right: 0.98cm; margin-bottom: 0cm">
- <FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">:tryAgain<BR>if
- not exist \\share\folder\lock (<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><FONT COLOR="#808080"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><I><B>::create
- the lock<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;</B></I></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">echo
- This is a lock file &gt; \\share\folder\lock<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><FONT COLOR="#808080"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><I><B>::execute
- the synchronization batch job synchronously<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;</B></I></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">&quot;C:\Program
- Files\FreeFileSync\FreeFileSync.exe&quot;
- &quot;C:\MySyncJob.ffs_batch&quot;<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;del
- \\share\folder\lock<BR>) else (<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT><FONT COLOR="#808080"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><I><B>::wait
- 5 seconds then try starting sync again:<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;</B></I></FONT></FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">choice
- /C:AB /T:5 /D:A &gt; NUL<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;goto tryAgain<BR>)</FONT></FONT></P>
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