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<H3 CLASS="western" ALIGN=CENTER><IMG SRC="../img/RTS_logo.png" NAME="Grafik6" ALIGN=ABSMIDDLE WIDTH=269 HEIGHT=59 BORDER=0><FONT SIZE=4 STYLE="font-size: 16pt"><BR></FONT><FONT SIZE=3><I><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">Automated
Synchronization</SPAN></I></FONT></H3>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">RealtimeSync
is a small tool which executes a command line each time it detects
changes in one of the monitored directories </FONT><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>or</B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN>
<FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">a directory becomes available (e. g.
insert of a USB-stick). Usually this command line will simply trigger
a FreeFileSync batch job.</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Example:</B></FONT>
<FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Real time synchronization - in
combination with FreeFileSync</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Start
RealtimeSync.exe located in FreeFileSync's installation directory.
Then specify all folders that shall be monitored. Instead of doing
this manually you can import a </FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">*.ffs_batch</FONT>
<FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">file via </FONT><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Menu
→ Program → Open</B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">.
This not only extracts all directories relevant for synchronization
but also sets up the command line to execute the </FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">*.ffs_batch</FONT>
<FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">file each time changes are detected.
Now press </FONT><SPAN STYLE="font-variant: normal"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal"><B>Start</B></SPAN></FONT></SPAN>
<FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">to begin monitoring.</FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-left: 0.79cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Note</B></FONT></P>
<LI><P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-left: 0.79cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">The
command should </FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>not</B></FONT>
<FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>block</B></FONT> <FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">progress.
Make sure the FreeFileSync batch job does not show any popup
dialogs. See notes in <A HREF="Batch%20scripting.html">Batch
Scripting</A>.</FONT><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: none"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><BR> </FONT></SPAN></P>
<LI><P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-left: 0.79cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">The
settings dialog can be skipped by passing a RealtimeSync
configuration file (<FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">*.ffs_real</FONT>)
<B>or</B> a FreeFileSync batch file (<FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">*.ffs_batch</FONT>)
as first command line argument to RealtimeSync.exe. This can be
integrated into the operating system's auto start
facility:<BR> <FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">"C:\Program
Files\FreeFileSync\RealtimeSync.exe" "</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">D</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">:\</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">Backup
Projects</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">.ffs_real"<BR></FONT> <FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">"C:\Program
Files\FreeFileSync\RealtimeSync.exe" "</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">D</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">:\</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">Backup
Projects</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">.ffs_batch"</FONT><BR> </FONT></P>
<LI><P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-left: 0.79cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Using
RealtimeSync is not restricted to starting FreeFileSync. It can
also be used in other scenarios, like sending an email whenever a
certain directory is modified.</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Example:</B></FONT>
<FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Automatic synchronization when USB
stick is inserted</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Save a
ffs_batch configuration into the USB stick's root directory and have
it called when the stick is mounted. Then configure RealtimeSync as
shown in the following:</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Whenever
directory "</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">H:\Data</FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">"
becomes available, the command line executes and starts the batch job
on the stick. Additionally it also starts the batch job each time
files are modified in "</FONT><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">H:\Data</FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">".
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<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-left: 0.79cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Note<BR></B></FONT><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">The
full path of the last changed file and the action that triggered the
change notification (create, update or delete) are </FONT><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: none"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">written
to the environment variables </FONT></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: none"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><B>%change_path%</B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: none">
</SPAN><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: none"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">and
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: none"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><B>%change_action%</B></FONT></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: none"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace">.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Example:</B></FONT>
<FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Show names of changed files or
directories. (Windows)</FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-left: 0.79cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Show
which file or directory has triggered a change. Enter command
line:</FONT><BR> cmd /c echo %change_action%
"%change_path%" & pause<BR><BR><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">Write
a list of all changes to a logfile:</FONT><BR> cmd
/c echo %change_action% "%change_path%" >>
c:\log.txt</FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-left: 0.79cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Note<BR></B></FONT><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
"HideConsole.vbs" located in FreeFileSync's installation
directory:</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE="margin-left: 0.79cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Courier New, monospace"><B>wscript
"C:\Program files\FreeFileSync\HideConsole.vbs"
C:\MyBatchFile.cmd</B></FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif"><B>Limitations</B>:</FONT></P>
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<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">If
multiple changes happen at the same time, only the name of the first
file is written to variable "changed_file".</FONT></P>
<LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0cm"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, sans-serif">While
RealtimeSync is executing the command line, monitoring is inactive
and changes occurring during this time are lost. </FONT>
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