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No replies so I guess it can't be done. I worked around it by checking the time before invoking a script. This is basically so I can test the backup job by hand without it performing a bunch of time consuming actions every time I do it.

Any way to do this in Pascalscript? Thanks.

I'm trying to call a script from Pascalscript using this function.

function OnProfileStart:Boolean;
begin
Execute('/volume1/scripts/zabbix-db-backup.sh', 60);
Result:=true;
end;

This is on an Asustor NAS. Syncovery is running as root. The script has 755 permissions and runs fine when called ...

One thing I have observed. If the source directory is not empty then Syncovery seems to behave correctly and consistently. This odd behavour seems to happen when the source directory is empty.

OK, I accept it's not a massive problem. It's just the inconsistency that bothers me. As a last try, I'm attaching the profile I'm using. For me it's easy to recreate. Keep running it and 3 or 4 tries in it suddenly decides it's OK to do the deletes.

Did you find anything unusual?

Well I suppose it is reproduceable. All I'm doing is repeatedly running a profile that has been given permission to delete everything at the target end. Keep clicking the play button and it often refuses 3 times because deletions are disabled (they are not) then just does it on the 4th. No changes ...

I've been experimenting some more and there's definitely some inconsistency in how Syncovery behaves, but I'm finding it hard to discern a pattern to it. It refuses several times to delete everything in the target, then seemingly randomly says OK and does it. If I can come up with something ...

Hi Tobias, the curious thing is it did delete everything on the 4th run for no particular reason I can see, when it refused on the first 3 runs.

Hello, I'm still experimenting with Syncovery to understand everything it can do. I've noticed that if I run a profile that tries to delete all the files in the target then Syncovery will refuse. That's OK and I get why. If I keep re-running the same profile with nothing at all changed it eventually ...