Syncovery Support Forum

I was wondering if their was any way to trigger a specific profile after a Veeam backup job had been completed. I know that I can run a script after a veeam job has completed, however i would need to know how if at all possible i would interact with Syncovery in order to know whats going to go in that script. The syncovery install is on a qnap in case that is relevant, and they are both on the same subnet.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Hello,
thanks for your post!

So Veeam is running on a Windows machine, and when done you would like to start a Syncovery job on QNAP?

Hello, and thanks for the quick reply.

That is correct. Ideally I would like to get data offsite as soon as the backup jobs completed rather than having an arbitrary scheduled time as I do now.

im guessing thats a no?

Everything is possible, but the difficulty varies. There is no easy answer. I have to investigate.

Sorry, wasn't trying to rush you, was just trying to clarify if their was or wasn't current built in functionality to achieve this.

Many thanks.

Currently you'd need to automate an SSH login and invoke a command line, or be able to trigger an HTTP POST that must appear to come from localhost to the URL
https://localhost:8999/post_runprofile.php

with the form parameter
ProfileName=xyz

I will try to add an easier HTTP API in the next update. You would need to whitelist the Windows machine's IP so that no login is needed to invoke a command.

Another way would be if you put a signal file in some folder on the QNAP.

One profile could run every 1 minute and look for the signal file. If it's there, it could copy it to some dummy destination folder. It could have an "Execute before/after" command like this:

++RUN PROFILE Your Main Profile

This would trigger your main profile only if the signal file was detected.

So every time the signal file is created new (with a new timestamp), the job would be triggered.

Example command line on Windows:

i imagine the signal file will be easier to implement. i will look into it a little further. Many thanks for your help.

I tried going down the posting the form route. I have little experience with this, but I chose CURL with the command:-

C:\temp>curl -H "Origin: http://localhost" "http://username:password@IPADDRESS:8999/post_runprofile.php" -d "ProfileName=VM_With_SQL"

and got the error:-


An Exception occurred:JSON could not be parsed, error accessing field ProfileName@ 00000000004D522BApplication Error At 00000000004D522B on 06/08/2022 14:40:25
Exception TWebServerException: JSON could not be parsed, error accessing field ProfileName
Executable: /share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/SyncoveryCL/SyncoveryCL
Reporting Thread ID: 140329550100224
Size: 26206792 (64-bit)
Exception in WebServ, post_runprofile.php, params=ProfileName=VM_With_SQL
Parameter: start
Parameter: /INI=/share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/.qpkg/SyncoveryCL/Syncovery.cfg

Client Pipes: 0, Threads: 0
Server Pipes: 2, Threads: 4

Stack Trace
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Exception class: TWebServerException

Stacktrace:

$00000000004D522B
$0000000000510461
$0000000001365CD2
$0000000001366D17
$000000000123B5B5
$0000000001234AEA
$0000000001234673
$00000000012330F5
$000000000043F388


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I'm assuming I haven't done what you suggested?

Many thanks.