Pause profiles in Background Scheduler?

[syncing_feeling]

Greetings,

I am loving this software (especially the new version 5 features)!

I am getting my various profiles set up using the Background Scheduler. I was wondering if there is a way to Pause the scheduler, particularly when a profile is running. I see that there are the following options if I right-click on the Background Scheduler tray icon: Cancel Profile; Stop Profile and Scheduler Immediately; Stop Activity Immediately Until Tomorrow. All of those are useful, but I'd like to also have the option to "Pause Profile". When running a profile in Attended mode there is a Pause button; I'm basically wanting that ability with the Background Scheduler. I anticipate there will be times when a long backup is running and I want to Pause it without Canceling it so that I can then Resume it later at the same point.

Is there a command or setting for this somewhere that I am missing?

Thanks!

[superflexible]

Good idea, but not currently possible. Maybe in V6!

[syncing_feeling]

Thanks. I understand. I'll hope for it in some future version.

I have a few follow up questions. The profiles that I'm most interested in being able to pause and resume are ones that I have going over WAN. These profiles zip files that are less than 500MB into zip archives, and files larger than that are sent "as is" (and then I use the Remote MD5 function to verify that they transmitted successfully).

It appears that if I have a quantity of files whose sum total size is greater than 500MB (eg, 700MB worth of files, where no single file is greater than 500MB) then SFFS will create multiple zip archive files which are combined at the destination into a single zip archive which is then unzipped (eg, a 500MB zip archive piece and a 200MB zip archive piece, combining to form a single 700MB zip archive to be unzipped). If I cancel a profile in the middle of uploading a zip archive or a piece of a zip archive, will the profile try to resume uploading the zip archive (or zip archive piece) the next time it is run, or will whatever has been transferred be lost/wasted?

For files that are larger than 500MB (and so will not go in a zip archive, based on my configuration), if the profile is canceled before the file finishes uploading, will the profile attempt to resume uploading that file the next time the profile is run?

For both of the above you can assume that the profile has checked the option under Files -> More -> Automatically Resume.

Thanks!

[superflexible]

Hello,

there are actually separate settings. The ZIP Packages are split if you specify a limit on the Zipping tab sheet. I recommend to turn this off for best resuming after cancelations.

The other limit for individual files is specified on the Zip Packages Configuration dialog. That you can keep.

Resuming will work like you said if you turn off the zip splitting.

[syncing_feeling]

there are actually separate settings. The ZIP Packages are split if you specify a limit on the Zipping tab sheet. I recommend to turn this off for best resuming after cancelations.

Resuming will work like you said if you turn off the zip splitting.

Oh, okay. That makes sense. I think that I was interpreting that putting a limit on the Zipping tab sheet meant it would make individual zip archives at a max of that size, as opposed to splitting a single larger archive into those sized chunks.

I will change my settings per your suggestion and that will probably work fine for my current needs.

Thanks much!