syncremote task saved but not shown in GUI

[w0330t]

RsyncUI 3.0.0 on macOS.

A task with "task": "syncremote" is saved correctly in:

~/.rsyncosx/<mac-serial>/configurations.json

But the GUI shows:

No tasks match this Synchronize ID

If I change only this field:

"task": "syncremote"

to:

"task": "synchronize"

and restart RsyncUI, the same task appears in the GUI.

rsync is detected correctly:

rsync version 3.4.3
protocol version 32

So it looks like syncremote tasks are saved but filtered out or not loaded by the GUI.

[rsyncOSX]

I will check it out now and investigate what happens :-)

[rsyncOSX]

I was not able to reproduce the issue, a syncremote task was added and listed in the main sync view? Can you show me the Tasks view (the second view where tasks are added and updated).. Also a sync remote task is only valid if the remote catalog is on a remote server..

[rsyncOSX]

This is the configurations.json for the above, you may create a test profile and within that test catalog create a configurations.json file... ~/.rsyncosx/<mac-serial>/test/configurations.json

[{"offsiteUsername":"user","localCatalog":"test remote\/","dateRun":"","offsiteCatalog":"test source\/","offsiteServer":"remoteserver","backupID":"A syncremote","task":"syncremote","id":"6C6C7D47-AD10-4C68-A53C-D3A31AA3F81F","hiddenID":1,"halted":0}]

[w0330t]

Thanks. I attached a screenshot of the Add Task view and the generated configurations.json.

Important detail: the task is visible immediately after I add it. The problem happens after I quit RsyncUI and open it again. After restart, the syncremote task is still present in configurations.json, but it is no longer shown in the GUI.

In syncremote mode, the UI labels the second folder field as Add Remote folder - required. I entered the remote Linux path there.

The generated JSON stores:

"offsiteCatalog": "/Users/w0330t/Projects/my-exp-lab/experiments/exp12_horizon_direction_auc/artifacts/",
"localCatalog": "/home/w0330t/Projects/my-exp-lab/experiments/exp12_horizon_direction_auc/artifacts/",
"offsiteServer": "100.100.1.13",
"offsiteUsername": "w0330t",
"task": "syncremote"

So from the UI wording, I understood:
offsiteCatalog = local/source folder on my Mac
localCatalog = remote folder on the remote server
Is that the expected mapping for syncremote?

rsyncui-issue-128-configurations.json

[rsyncOSX]

I will try out your config and see what happens. RsyncUI flips the catalogs, you can also check the resulting rsync task. It pull data from remote to your local destination. The first folder is where your data lands, the remote is the catalog where rsync get the data from. Choose the Verify tab and check the actual rsync command, you will see it pull data from remote.

[rsyncOSX]

Seems all good here, no issue display the task: This is the resulting command: /opt/homebrew/bin/rsync --archive --verbose --compress --dry-run --stats w0330t@100.100.1.13:/home/w0330t/Projects/my-exp-lab/experiments/exp12_horizon_direction_auc/artifacts/ /Users/w0330t/Projects/my-exp-lab/experiments/exp12_horizon_direction_auc/artifacts/

[w0330t]

Thanks for testing it.

I recorded the full reproduce process.

In the video:

1. I add a syncremote task.
2. The task is visible immediately after adding it.
3. I quit RsyncUI.
4. I open RsyncUI again.
5. The task is no longer visible in the GUI, while it still exists in configurations.json.

Attached video and JSON below.

rsyncui-issue-128-test-task-configurations.json

rsyncui-issue-128-repro-cropped-10mb.mp4

[rsyncOSX]

That is very strange, what about normal sync tasks? Do they show up as expected? Also, open the About and check the RsyncUI evaluates correctly the Mac serial number.. The last is to try is to use Xcode and see actually what happens..

[w0330t]

Thanks. I checked the About dialog and attached a screenshot.

I redacted the Mac serial number in the config path for privacy. The path shown by RsyncUI matches the actual config directory used on my machine.

A normal synchronize task works as expected:

• it is visible immediately after adding it
• after quitting and reopening RsyncUI, it is still visible in the GUI

The issue only happens with syncremote tasks:

• the task is visible immediately after adding it
• after quitting and reopening RsyncUI, it disappears from the GUI
• the task is still present in configurations.json

I upgraded Homebrew rsync from 3.4.3 to 3.4.4, matching your environment. RsyncUI now shows rsync 3.4.4, but the syncremote task still disappears from the GUI after quitting and reopening. Normal synchronize tasks still persist correctly.

I have not tried running it from Xcode yet. If you think that is the next useful step, I can try it and share the console output or any relevant logs.

[rsyncOSX]

This is weird, and I am very interessted in finding out what is happening. If you can download the code and in Signing and Capabilites make it run locally, then you can set a breakepoint in the code where data is read and decoded from storage:

https://github.com/rsyncOSX/RsyncUI/blob/main/RsyncUI/Model/Storage/ReadSynchronizeConfigurationJSON.swift

The code reading JSON from storage is quite easy to follow, and there are a couple of Log statment there as well which will be seen in Xcode console..

[rsyncOSX]

I have as an example just added two print statments, and when loading your syncremote config the print statement looks like this: and if no dump in console, you should see an error message (most likely). And also make sure that rsync ved 3.x is on. RsyncUI will check rsync version, but if on the loading of tasks may be ahead of checking version and syncremote tasks will not load.