Global Bi-directional Options

This screen is activated by clicking on the Global Settings link located to the right of the Bi-directional option in the File Options window as well as from the PeerSync Global Settings window or the Options menu. This window has the following features:

Always create a super-set during bi-directional synchronization

This feature will alter the way the Enable bi-directional synchronization mode option functions by always creating a super-set of the data on the source and target. In this mode folders and files will always be added and not deleted.

Use enhanced bi-directional synchronization mode options

This feature will alter the way the Enable bi-directional synchronization mode option functions by using enhanced features to track all file and folder adds, updates, deletions, renames and moves between scan cycles. In this mode, PeerSync will use a hidden system trigger file within each sub-folder to store information about the last scan cycle for that sub-folder. Using this trigger file, PeerSync can determine if a Folder was added, deleted, renamed or moved since the last scan.

Note: This feature is not supported when using the Enhanced Scanning option.

Notes:

These settings are Global. Global Settings are global to the current Profile. These settings and options pertain to all of the Jobs in the current Profile and are used to define, configure and execute the launch of Profiles via the PeerSync engine. Arguments to be sent to PeerSync can be selected and setup from the Options/Commands screen.

2.	Please refer to our White Papers page for step-by-step tutorials to achieve real-time or scheduled bi-directional synchronization.

When the "Always create a super-set during bi-directional synchronization" option is NOT selected (i.e. doing standard or enhanced bi-directional synchronization) we recommend you add /YO- and /QYD:0 to your list of command line arguments. These options will ensure that during standard or enhanced bi-directional synchronization, deleted files from one side are not re-added by the other side. These arguments should NOT be used if there are more than two machines involved in a bi-directional synchronization.