Time-Limited Pause With Automatic Un-Pause

[rstarkov]

Most of the time when I pause something, it's temporary. I don't leave things paused forever.

 

Half the time when I pause something, I forget to unpause it and only notice a few days later when something isn't syncing / backing up.

 

Please could you allow me to pause sync for a specific time (1 hour, 6 hours, 24 hours) after which it un-pauses automatically? This applies equally to the overall pause and to the selective pause (which is a great addition and is definitely appreciated!)

 

Here's how CrashPlan does it, and boy does it make a huge difference!

(there's no "indefinitely" there because CrashPlan is for backups and I guess they decided you never want to pause your backups indefinitely)

[Moe]

If you want to pause BTSync completely why don't you write yourself a script that stops btsync, sleeps for x amount of seconds on user input basis and then starts it again?

i don't think this is a feature that would make it in the application.

[rstarkov]

Judging by the progress on the Windows service feature, you might be right Moe...

 

Remember this request next time you forget to un-pause your sync though, you might change your mind

[RomanZ]

@rstarkov, @Moe

Never say never . Your feature request is heard and filed. When planning new release we usually take several from feature requests.

[rstarkov]

Awesome, thanks @RomanZ!