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Cobian Reflector • Service vs. Application behaves differently (I think)

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Background: I had (gravity) installed and ran successfully for nearly a year and a half. My configuration was installed as service on PC / Win10 and backed up to Netgear NAS. Upgraded to Reflector and had no (application) problem. My issues started with my NAS filling up the drives. I had to fix by setting to factory settings. Up and running. Then my other NAS (Lenovo) failed. I replaced with Synology and increased disk size. Opted to set my backups to the new drive.

My problem and subsequent issue: I had Reflector installed as a service. Updated the tasks to point to the new drive. Tasks failed. I did not have permission to write to the drive. I tried running as impersonator, no luck. Could be I filled the blanks wrong. I tried looking at the new NAS interface to see if I could see a setting to update. Way more involved than my 10 yo NAS..... I then reinstalled Reflector as an Application. Success! until read the log. There were some files that did not copy due to being locked by another user (Outlook, Quickbooks). Never had that issue installed as service.

My questions:
Why does how I install affect how Reflector behaves? Is it supposed to?
Why can't I write to the Synology NAS when running as service? I can write from my PC with my ID just fine.
Is Reflector the issue or the NAS interface / settings?
I did notice in the log that as a service user is "SYSTEM" as an application user is my PC login.

Long term, I don't want to shut all apps every time I run.

Any help / insight would be greatly appreciated.

Eric

Statistics: Posted by EricKS — 16 Jan 2022, 04:37 — Replies 5 — Views 18



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