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  3. Different Syncignores Possible On 3 Directories?

    in Sync General Discussion

    Posted

    Another questions arised:

     

    What happens to those files which are not covered in any .SyncIgnore on Computers1/2/3 and therefore should normally synced,

     

    IF they are changed on Computer3?

     

    Are they just ignored in the sync,

    or

    will they be overwritten on each and every sync?

     

     

    I figured out, that IF I change a file on Computer1 and the File was never "touched" by me on Computer3, the file on Computer3 gets overwritten by the file from Computer1. (Which is what I expect to happen)

     

    If I change a File on Computer3, I expect it also to be overwritten, but it seems, that this is never happening, because what I see here, is that on Computer3 are a lot of "old" files, while Computer1 has the never ones which should be synced to Computer3. (*even* if I changed the Files on Computer3)

     

    So what is the btsync behaviour? What do I have to expect?

  4. Different Syncignores Possible On 3 Directories?

    in Sync General Discussion

    Posted

    Thank u again, RomanZ!

     

    Here's what I did and now everything seems to be good :-)

     

    trying from scratch is sometimes better, than modify and modify and modify..., so

     

    I Removed the Directory 'X'  from "My Sync" on all 3 Computers, so the .SyncID was deleted.

     

    I deleted all the files within the left folders on Computer2+3. (to prevent dead files taking space and attention...)

     

    I copied the .SyncIgnore file from Computer1 to Computer2, and a modified .SyncIgnore to Computer3, so that Computer3 only receives needed files.

     

    Now I added a new folder under "My Sync" on Computer1, generated a new Secrec and copied the R/O Secret,

     

    which I pasted to a newly added folder on Computer2 and Computer3.

     

    Thats it. (pretty simple, if u did it about 15 times...)

     

    The .SyncID files are now binary identical and the sync is working as expected.

     

    Thanks again! :)

  5. Different Syncignores Possible On 3 Directories?

    in Sync General Discussion

    Posted

    Thank u RomanZ,

     

    it seems to work, but I'm a little bit confused about a different .SyncID file on Computer3:

     

    The both .SyncID files on Computer1+3 are binary identical (MD5 check), but Computer2 has different content in the .SyncID file.

     

    Can I just ignore this, or maybe it is founded because Computer1 (which is the source of all files in Directory 'X') has Full Access Secret, and Computer2+3 have R/O Secret set?

     

    Having the Folder Info Window open on those 3 Computers, I see that the Secrets are set up correct for my purpurses:

    Computer1 Full Access

    Computer2+3 Read Only

  6. Different Syncignores Possible On 3 Directories?

    in Sync General Discussion

    Posted

    Hi all syncexperts,
     
    I'd like to do the following:
     
    a)
    Backup a complete Directory 'X' from Computer1 to Computer2.
     
    B)
    Take Directory 'X' from Computer2 to Computer3, but with only selected files from that Directory 'X'. 
     
     
    In other words: 
    backup *.* from Computer1 to Computer2 and copy only *.foo from Computer2 to Computer3.
     
     
    Will it work with creating a default .SyncIgnore on Computer1 and a customized .SyncIgnore on Computer2+3 which are identical on Computer2+3?
     
     
    Thank you,
     

     

  7. A Scheduler For The Mac?

    in Sync General Discussion

    Posted

    Hi RomanZ,

    thanks for the hint with iCal. I wasnt aware, that users can use iCal to execute scripts as well.

    Unfortunately, this feature isnt available on newer OSX installations, like Mountain Lion or Mavericks, which I use.

     

    Also, there is a big drawback with using iCal: There are a couple of notable limitations to using iCal as a scheduling tool:
    You must be logged in for the AppleScript to run.

     

    As the Script obviously needs to run, when I'm not in front of the Mac (computer is running, but i'm not logged in), otherwise, I could do it manualy, the iCal way can't be used to run a scheduled job to change the bandwith limitation.

     

    Anyways, there seems to be an alternative method with Automator's 'Calendar Alarm', but I did'nt get into that atm.

  10. A Scheduler For The Mac?

    in Sync General Discussion

    Posted

    oh. thank you. I just not realized, that the mentioned thread was a wishlist.

     

    I'll add my voice, but I'm not asking for a solution IMPLEMENTED in btsync, just a solution for the mac OSX.

     

    I guess wished feature will not be implemented the next couple of months/years, so I'd like to have a workaround as soon as possible :)

     

    I can imagine a solution like writing a script which stops btsync process nicely, changes the needed values in the btsync.conf (if there is a btsync.conf, I just don't know now) and starts the btsync process again.

    something like that.

    And I'd like to hear/read from some others here, if there might be some complications or other things I need to check first.

  11. A Scheduler For The Mac?

    in Sync General Discussion

    Posted

    Hi all,

     

    I'm using btsync on my companies stationary Mac.

     

    Because of the small Bandwidth here, I fiddled with the "Limit download/upload rate" settings, which worked quite well, after I figured out, that a restart of btsync is needed after every change.

     

    So far, so good.

     

    The Bandwidth should be limited at busines hours (say 8h-19h)

    but unlimited after busines hours (say 20h-7h).

     

    Is there any way I can accmplish that?

     

    Is there somebody out there which has a similar scenario and migth have a solution for that issue?

     

    Not Mac specific:

    http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/22472-set-a-schedule

    http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/29684-bandwidthsync-scheduling

  13. Dht Question In Sync. Private Files Or Worldwide Files?²

    in Sync General Discussion

    Posted

    Hi all,

    (because my initial topic was hijacked and got confusing, I'd like to ask my initial question again, because I'm not realy sure, if I understand DHT with BTSYNC.)

     

    It would be nice, if somebody could try to explain it again, or point to a link I can refer.

     

    Thank you.

     

    ----------------------------------------

     

    Initial Question:

     

    is the somewhere in the world wide internet, a (german language) document/page/site, which I can refer to understand how all the DHT thing is working within btsync?

     

    I read some about it, but I'm really not sure, if I understand while using btsync on 3 different machines (mac/unix/win) only for my private backup/sync pleasure. ;-)

     

    I'm interested in the following:

     

    Is DHT good or bad (and can it flip in special cases?) for only sycning my own private files (which nobody else in the world has a dupe from).

     

    And how does it look like, when most of the files, I sync between my private machines, are files that a lot of other btsync User might also have on their sync-servers, like documents from the web or something else (yt-videos, free mp3, images from wikipedia...)

     

    Thank you very much for linking me :-)

     

     

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    Assuming your computers are connecting to each other already, adding DHT won't give you any benefits.
    Individual files are not shared.
    Entire directories are.
    The files synchronized in your secret are NOT synchronized to computers that don't have your secret.

    Thank you Harold,
    this helps to understand the sharing part, I guess.

    So a useful situation for DHT would be, if I had an additional folder, which I would like to share with any machine who knows my secret and is not one of my own machines? Still dont understand the benefits of DHT inside btsync.

  14. Dht Question In Sync. Private Files Or Worldwide Files?

    in Sync General Discussion

    Posted

    Assuming your computers are connecting to each other already, adding DHT won't give you any benefits.

    Individual files are not shared.

    Entire directories are.

    The files synchronized in your secret are NOT synchronized to computers that don't have your secret.

    Thank you Harold,

    this helps to understand the sharing part, I guess.

    So a useful situation for DHT would be, if I had an additional folder, which I would like to share with any machine who knows my secret and is not one of my own machines? Still dont understand the benefits of DHT inside btsync.

  15. Dht Question In Sync. Private Files Or Worldwide Files?

    in Sync General Discussion

    Posted

    Hi all,

     

    is the somewhere in the world wide internet, a (german language) document/page/site, which I can refer to understand how all the DHT thing is working within btsync?

     

    I read some about it, but I'm really not sure, if I understand while using btsync on 3 different machines (mac/unix/win) only for my private backup/sync pleasure. ;-)

     

    I'm interested in the following:

     

    Is DHT good or bad (and can it flip in special cases?) for only sycning my own private files (which nobody else in the world has a dupe from).

     

    And how does it look like, when most of the files, I sync between my private machines, are files that a lot of other btsync User might also have on their sync-servers, like documents from the web or something else (yt-videos, free mp3, images from wikipedia...)

     

    Thank you very much for linking me :-)

  19. Serious problem with cases in mixed environment

    in Sync General Discussion

    Posted

    Hi All,

    very interesting thread, thank you all for clarification,

    but Data Loss (although the files are moved to the .SyncArchive) is not quite an option.

     

    I'll add myself later to the wishlist as mentioned above, because renaming a file (adding some text which explain shortly the sync-problem) would be a good compromise here.

     

    Just to add my scenario, because I have a question which is not covered here.

    So please excuse my reopening:

     

    3 Machines: Mac, Win, Linux (Synology DS). All running 1.2.73

     

    1 full access shared folder. (origin is win) about 5328 files.

     

    renaming a file on Linux from "Funky Is On (Funky Family).m4r" to "Funky is on (Funky Family).m4r"

    will delete the file on Windows; throwing the file Funky Is On (Funky Family).m4r into .SyncArchive.

     

    It will be renamed correctly on Mac.

     

    So the file "Funky is on (Funky Family).m4r" now exists on Mac and Linux with the same case, but it does not exist on windows anymore.

     

     

    This leaves the question for me, why, after deleting the file on windows and renaming it correctly on the mac, there is an inconsistency between the 3 synced folders?

     

    The file "Funky is on (Funky Family).m4r" is missing on windows, but exists on Mac and Linux, AND it has the same case on those two systems. Why isn't it written to windows again?

     

     

     

     

     

  23. If You Have Sync Issue

    in Sync Troubleshooting

    Posted

    Thank you for the information! I'm happy, you could solve your issue so easily :-)

    For me, it seems, debugging does not work, by just adding a folder with the same permissions and owner:groups and the FFFF file.

    Dunno why and now I can't spend more time now. I'll wait until debugging can be tuned on/off in a simpler way.