RsyncOSX and RsyncUI are GUI´s on the Apple macOS plattform for the command line tool rsync

Releases 6.4.2 and 6.4.5 on Mojave 10.14.6 both fail to fully populate the UI. The error message given is "RsyncOSX[841:25926] Failed to set (contentViewController) user defined inspected property on (NSWindow): must provide an environment dictionary". 6.4.0 works properly.

If I open 6.4.6, and mouse-click on the SSH tab, program immediately terminates. Crash included below.

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Process:               RsyncOSX [51797]
Path:                  /Applications/RsyncOSX.app/Contents/MacOS/RsyncOSX
Identifier:            no.blogspot.RsyncOSX
Version:               6.4.6 (1)
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           RsyncOSX [51797]
User ID:               507

Date/Time:             2020-09-24 17:18:15.732 +0200
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.15.6 (19G2021)
Report Version:        12
Bridge OS Version:     4.6 (17P6610)
Anonymous UUID:        0AA7CFD5-28BA-AE3B-7C6E-ABE05BB5F055

Sleep/Wake UUID:       09D9AF68-6484-4BA1-9554-130C8BE6DCFB

Time Awake Since Boot: 360000 seconds
Time Since Wake:       100000 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Signal:    Illegal instruction: 4
Termination Reason:    Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0x4
Terminating Process:   exc handler [51797]

Application Specific Information:
Performing @selector(_changeSelectedSegment:) from sender NSSegmentedControl 0x7fb70c0217a0

The crash is largely similar in properties if I press the button with the keyboard, instead of the mouse:

Process:               RsyncOSX [51876]
Path:                  /Applications/RsyncOSX.app/Contents/MacOS/RsyncOSX
Identifier:            no.blogspot.RsyncOSX
Version:               6.4.6 (1)
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           RsyncOSX [51876]
User ID:               507

Date/Time:             2020-09-24 17:25:25.743 +0200
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.15.6 (19G2021)
Report Version:        12
Bridge OS Version:     4.6 (17P6610)
Anonymous UUID:        0AA7CFD5-28BA-AE3B-7C6E-ABE05BB5F055

Sleep/Wake UUID:       09D9AF68-6484-4BA1-9554-130C8BE6DCFB

Time Awake Since Boot: 360000 seconds
Time Since Wake:       100000 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Termination Signal:    Illegal instruction: 4
Termination Reason:    Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0x4
Terminating Process:   exc handler [51876]

Application Specific Information:
Performing @selector(_changeSelectedSegment:) from sender NSSegmentedControl 0x7fb0e500f5e0

If I go to preferences, and check "use rsync 3.1.x" etc, and when I press "save" the program closes, but no crash window appears. Same for when I uncheck. 

Is this expected behaviour?

Trying to restore from a server whilst connected via a spotty VPN with either --partial or --partial-dir and if using the "Restore Files" option the flags appear not to be honoured.

1/. Start transfer and usual .file.xyz appears in local temp catalogue. 2/. Drop VPN and transfer stalls but the process does not exit. 3/. Stop transfer using the stop button on the "Executing" dropdown. 4/ Re-instate VPN. 5/. Try and restart by re-cataloguing and selecting file. RsyncOSX becomes unresponsive and eventually has to be Force Quit. Alternatively just quit without trying to re-catalogue to avoid the hang. 6/. Restart RsyncOSX 7/. Select file again and restart the transfer. A new .file.abc appears in local temp catalogue. The existing .file.xyz is ignored.

Compare this with a command line of the form:- rsync --archive --verbose --compress -e ssh --partial --stats me@remote:/media/assets/some-file /Volumes/G-DRIVE/local-catalogue/

which if CTRL X'd when VPN drops and rerun when VPN restarts, makes the .file.xyz file and creates a new .file.asd which it then appends to the end of file when completed, the stats show a corresponding speedup depending on how far through the transfer the line dropped.

If you attempt a full restore it seems to work OK.

Hi guys! Thanks a ton for creating the GUI for newbies like me. The app is awesome! My goal is through the sync option to sync folders and lets say i have different files in the destination than in the original folder, those different files to be stored in a separate folder creating what i call a SafetyNet folder, it would be more convenient for me if those folder after each sync are organized by date with the changes occurred on the date of the sync. How can i time stamp those folders. Thank you very much in advance!

Hi

IDK if it's too complex, but it would be amazing if you could add and option for each configuration to execute a command before and after performing a task:

Use case: I use rsyncOSX to backup to-from a samba server. It's easier than ssh simply because I don't have to generate a ssh-key for every single user in my office. With samba is easy to control user permissions and it's natively compatible with every OS, so everyone is happy. As you already know, rsync doesn't support to mount directly a samba directory, so I mount it using a script on startup. Unfortunately sometimes it fails to mount, so I have to do it manually. If this is not done properly, my scheduled tasks will execute a backup on an empty Volume folder and obviously this is not what it's intended.

A simple pre-task script could check if the Volume is mounted, and if not it will try to mount it. If it's unable to perform the task, it will return -1 and thus breaking the backup process.

The option could include:

• Pre and post executions.
• Pre execution should allow to halt the backup if return code is different than 0.
• Scripts output should be logged.
• Using environment variables to invoke a script should be allowed for environment-agnostic implementations (portable scripts).

Regards.

Hi Thomas,

I saw that there were already previous attempts for german translation which got stuck.

Have you considered setting up one of the web based translation services availabe free for OSS projects? E.g.

• Crowdin Link1, Link2 or
• POEditor

That makes contribution a lot easier

Thanks, Andre

Hi,

Do you perhaps have plans to include the configuration of incremental backups (for a specified Source Folder)?

For example: daily for seven days; two weekly backups. That way, one could restore from a time point two weeks previously (in this example.)

Howard

When started pretty much immediately starts "beach ball" and only way to stop it is to force quit - I have tried to wait but it is just hanged permanently even after many minutes.

I run it on Intel based macOS 11.4

RsyncOSX is great - thanks for sharing it. Not sure what happened, but now stuck in Crash Loop. Ignore, Report, Reopen have same results. App crashes when started. Using OSX Catalina, rsync 3.1.3 via home-brew. Was fine yesterday! Have tried deleting config files, plist files, etc. - no luck. Any help is appreciated.

RsyncErrorLog.txt

Hey, nice app! It would be really great if users could use a custom ssh key path - it's currently fixed and assumes the default path. If I could edit it, I could use a specific password-less key only for the backup server.

What needs to be done: Make the key path field editable and save key path in settings.

Steps to reproduce:

• Create a folder of files ~/tmp/src
• Create a snapshot task to copy it to ~/tmp/dst
• Run the task
• Remove several files from src
• Click the single task icon (the play button)

Expected result: The task should show X files to be deleted

Actual result: The task shows 0 files to be deleted

Additional context

• rsync version 2.6.9
• RSyncOSX version 6.6.4
• Both folders are local on disk

The rsync command does appear to be valid, validated thus:

• Click the task then the command button
• Copy & paste to a terminal
• Note the files are listed to be deleted