Syncovery Support Forum

I need to reinstall Linux on my box.

I want to export Syncovery settings, including profiles, so I can import it in the new install.

The export option exports a cfg file but the import looks for an ini file. I'm not sure what to do?

Hi,
you can manually put the cfg file in the correct folder on the new system, while Syncovery is stopped.

The cfg file is an SQL database, so it cannot be replaced while Syncovery is running.

Note that passwords and cloud access tokens will be lost because the password encryption is locked to specific system installation IDs.

You can avoid this by temporarily changing the encryption type to weak/legacy on the first tab sheet of the Program Settings dialog. Let Syncovery re-encrypt the settings and then download the cfg file.

Ah. Got it. Thank you!

How do you actually stop Syncovery on Linux? I cannot find any service option to stop it.

You can use this command line:

SyncoveryCL stop

If you have the Guardian running, you need to stop it first:

SyncoveryGuardian stop

Ah. Got it. Thanks!

Can I change the path to the Syncovery.cfg file on Linux?

I dual boot Kubuntu and OpenSUSE. I jump between the two.

Both share the same data partition.

I have Syncovery installed on both, with the same profiles/settings.

For one of my profiles, I am using two way sync so it needs a database.

I want to be able to tell Syncovery on both installations to use the same .cfg file and same DB path.

Hello,
yes. Please follow these steps:

1. Stop the Syncovery service (and possibly the Guardian first): 2. copy the existing Syncovery.cfg file to the new folder (or the whole .Syncovery folder)

3. edit /etc/SyncoveryCL.conf to point to the new folder, for example: 4. restart Syncovery 5. you may also need to change the Logs and Database folder on the Program Settings dialog within the web GUI.

Awesome. I will do that. Thank you!