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RealTimeSync receives change notifications directly from the operating system in order to avoid the overhead of repeatedly polling for changes. This is an excerpt from the FreeFileSync manual, hope it further clarifies this matter: If you do not make any further changes this time in that predefined delay interval, sync process will run in the background and synchronize the file with remote drive/partition/folder. Delay timer resets, and starts counting again to 10. Delay timer starts, and starts counting to 10: 1, 2, 3, 4… But, 5 seconds later you do another change and save the file again. In simple terms, let us consider an example: you work on a file, then you save it. Then the new cycle runs, but if there are no changes made, there will be nothing to sync. Process monitors changes, and when the timer reaches predefined delay without any further changes activities, it runs the sync procedure automatically in the background. while you work on heavy files on the main drive/partition/folder. Sync delay only defines actual synchronization frequency to spare your CPU/HDD/SSD/Network resources and avoid doing double work e.g.
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RealTimeSync process continuously runs in the background, yes it starts automatically when PC starts, and it also continues to run afterwards independently. Hi, good question, this is how we understand this feature: Regarding the delay time set in RealTimeSync, with an example of 10 seconds, does it sync whenever there’s an idle time of 10 seconds, meaning another sync will auto run after an elapse of 20 seconds and another sync will auto run again after an elapse of 30 seconds (and this keeps on going)? Or does the sync only happens once after a PC startup and will not happen again until the next PC startup? In another words, this is simply a backup file of main program configuration. Of course, *.ffs_gui is straightforward to explain: it is simply a settings file of all the options you set in the main program (app) windows with graphical user interface (hence, _gui part), containing folder pairs, sync modes, exclusion list etc. FreeFileSync – File Types (Extensions) ExplainedįreeFileSync has a little bit convoluted procedure for creating real-time synchronization between folders,īut first let’s learn one important thing which will help us better understand and go throughout the tutorial later.įreeFileSync can generate 3 different kind of files (extensions):Īll 3 extensions have different use cases. It will look extremely complicated and convoluted, but once you go through, it’ll become a routine task to set up later.
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As I said, I'm going to have to read up on them.In this tutorial we’ll show you how to utilize real time sync / backup on Windows 10 operating system in just a few relatively simple steps.
I hope that makes sense and that I have not made a lot of false assumptions about how rsync snapshots work. Depending on how short a delay you choose for the RealTimeSync-triggered sync, every version of a file you save can be automatically backed up, not just the most recently saved version at the end of each period of x hours.
Accordingly, it allows you to recover from screw-ups on a much more granular basis. The backup is triggered not by the passage of an arbitrary amount of time but rather by the sync itself (which itself is triggered, with a user-configurable delay, by RealTimeSync as soon as it detects that a folder it's monitoring has changed).
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In the interim, I can say that one thing I like about FreeFileSync/RealTimeSync is that it can be set up to make an age- and/or number-capped archive of time-stamped backups of files that are overwritten or deleted by a sync. *I'm also going to look into Odroid's current offerings.
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When I'm over the crunch, I'm going to try to find out more about rsync snapshots* - and again, I know next to nothing about rsync - and will follow up with a reply that isn't too full of extraneous. I've really appreciated your replies but have been super-busy since my original post.