Synchronization - how much bandwidth is used?

[sjeye]

Greeting - I'm new to your forum.

I am looking for synchronization software to run across my T-1 line (dedicated line between offices). It would run every 10 minutes to maintain one folder of approx 30,000 small files on both sides of the T-1.

At most, 3 or 4 files of approx 10-15KB size will have changed since the previous sync.

I'm concerned about how much bandwidth is consumed when the synch is done.

Does anyone have experience that can be shared?

Thanks - Jim
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Jim

[TGRMN Software]

Hello, most of the bandwidth will be used during scanning of source and target. You can control bandwidth from profile settings -> bandwidth
thanks
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[sjeye]

Thanks for the explanation.

I'm trying to understand what actually will occur every 10 minutes when the program is set to re-synchronize folders on both computers.

Does it do a complete scan of all 30,000 files in each folder to look for the outliers? This is bandwidth intensive. Or does it do this only once and then do a brief (i.e. short) update that just locates the outliers?

Does it reside on both computers and maintain a log on each? If so, it can identify the outliers easily and just use the T-1 line to make the needed file transfers.

I don't have bandwidth for a lengthy scan (i.e. scan across the T-1) every 10 minutes.

Thanks

Jim
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Jim

[TGRMN Software]

Hello

currently VV performs a full rescan each time it runs. We know it would be better to detect which files have changed instead and avoid a full rescan, it's a feature we'd like to add and have been discussing for a while,

thanks
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