I was using freefilesync to do my off-site backup and Cobian to do my local one. I was hoping that with CBB I could ditch those two in favour of one single solution :(
Any chance that the "simple backup" might get a feature in the future that behaves like a sync/mirror option?

Hi David, thanks for the explanation.
In this case it's about my local backup on an extra hard drive and for this, I'd like my backup to be a 1 to 1 mirror of the source. Ideally I just want to swap the drives in case of a failure without the need of any kind of backup software to restore my backup. That's why I want the file attributes copied together with the files.
I have the more sopisticated backup with versioning and stuff like that on a distant NAS, for that I'm fine with your file-attribute-database-approach, but locally I want to be ready to go in 10 minutes after the original drive crashed.

Switched to "advanced mode" toggled "copy NTFS permissions" ran the backup and the files are still not hidden in the backup :( so this doesn't seem to do the trick.

OK, that setting was missing in "simple mode". I'll try that. Is there anything to consider when editing the profile and switching to advanced mode?

But I want to backup hidden files. I just want them to stay hidden in the backup. All files should be there in exactly the state they are in on my active system.

Standard System i guess. Never changed that. But a good hint, I'll experiment with that.

Edit: Jep, that did the trick. Ran it under my user account and now the scripts work as intended. Thanks a lot!

I use runas to run it as the current user with which executing the cmd works manually. But still, no success when triggering it through CBB. The delay doesn't help, neither. :(