Attended/unattended mode & real-time monitoring

[Ivangelion]

Howdy,

Is there a performance difference between those 2 (or 3) modes?

The thing is, we have a testing environment, 1 site is in US, and the other remote site is in Taiwan. We use real-time monitoring and scheduled full compare (bidirectional standard copying method). We use a script to upload to both sites about 20~30 files (2 MB total) per minute.

We found that real-time monitoring scheme would execute, but due to network latency, SFFS would queue those files and constantly build file list and not upload/download a single file for more than 12 hours. We've checked log files and it was continually writing info in "This run is based on real-time folder monitoring information" area and there are about 34 thousand entries and still growing.

But if 2 sites are both located in Taiwan, the real-time monitoring would run without any problem.

Once we used attended mode to sync remote sites (the background/real-time monitoring was still executing), file list building soon completed and could finally started to sync files.

Therefore, in order to address those network flow, is real-time monitoring infeasible and we must manually run unattended mode instead? Also, what mode is scheduled run?

Thank you in advance.

[superflexible]

Real-time is very different and may not be appropriate in this case.

Scheduled is the same as unattended.

[Ivangelion]

Then what is the difference between unattended and background? Do you mean background? If so, is there a performance difference between those two modes?

Thanks.

[superflexible]

It is the same. Just the visibility is different. Scheduled is in the background.

[Ivangelion]

So running unattended and running in background are only different in visibility, and their performances are the same, right?

But we can run only one profile in unattended mode, while we can run multiple profiles in background mode in the same time. Does it? Also we found that once there is one profile running unattended, we cannot do other things. Only those running on schedule can be executed but cannot be changed.

[superflexible]

Yes correct. But you can launch the GUI several time to do things.