Avoiding Profiles from stepping on each other

[Luc23]

Hey Tobias!

I've worked with you in the past on tweaking my S3 synching profiles. Iam fairly confident that I am down to one hurtle before I have everything running quite smoothly.

Basically what I have are 4 separate profiles that run at different times of the day. They each do the same thing: run every 5 minutes and look at an S3 bucket and move everything it finds there to a folder on my file server. The reason that I have 4 separate profiles instead of 1 is because of bandwidth throttling. There is no way to throttle by time of day within 1 profile, so I was forced to create 4 - each with a different throttle setting.

The problem is when 1 profile is running for the last time that day, the next one might start running before the earlier one is finished. This causes all sorts of problems since they are essentially moving the same files. Obviously I wouldn't have this problem if it was just 1 profile but I don't see a way to tell a profile not to run if another profile is still running.

Any thoughts!
Thanks!
Matt

[superflexible]

Hello,

on the Scheduler tab sheet, please click the "Tools and Settings" button. In the menu that appears, please uncheck "Start profiles in parallel".

[Luc23]

Thanks for the super fast reply! I've looked at that setting. It is grayed out and already not checked.

[Luc23]

What about Program Settings - Advanced - Max. Simultaneous Jobs? That is currently set to 3.

[superflexible]

Yes setting that to 1 should do the job also.

[superflexible]

If the checkmark I mentioned above is grayed out, it means you're either running it on Windows 98/ME or you haven't installed the software properly. Most likely, the installer asked for a reboot but you haven't done it yet. This causes the two main executable files to be of different versions, and that causes the grayed out option.

[Luc23]

You are correct that I had yet to reboot since I just went from 4.89 to 4.93a (on Windows 2003 Standard). I've since rebooted the server and that option is no longer grayed out, but it still was not checked. I've changed the other option to 1. Although it would be nice to be able to run my other profiles simultaneously, this issue takes precendence. I'm still holding out hope that in the future, there may be an option to bandwidth throttle according to time of day within the same profile.

I'll let you know if Max. Simultaneous Jobs fixes my issue.

[superflexible]

You can also use log files to verify if profiles were actually overlapping or not.

[Luc23]

Yeah, that's how I finally figured out what the problem was. I'm still kicking myself for not noticing they were overlaping earlier.

The next profile change happens at 6PM Central. This is usually the one that has a problem because it is when my FTP/S3 is seeing the most traffic. I'm crossing my fingers.