Service Stopping/Restarting and Sync

[bsdll]

I have sync running accross a server that restarts at 4am every morning. If there is something syncing during the restart, what is the impact on the process?

And secondary to that, if the service is stopped using the Services manager what happens to syncs in progress at the time?

Thanks.

[RomanZ]

@bsdll Sync breaks all files into smaller pieces when syncing. If something is not finished when Sync was stopped, it will continue from the piece it stopped last time. The only peculiarity here is how you shut down Sync itself. If this is a graceful shutdown (like SIGTERM on POSIX systems) - all is fine and Sync will have a chance to save all the data. Ungraceful shutdown may lead to redundant re-syncing and DB corruption.

[bsdll]

17 minutes ago, RomanZ said:

The only peculiarity here is how you shut down Sync itself.

Would stopping the service be considered a graceful shutdown? And to clarify, does stopping the service in fact stop the syncing? This is all on a Windows system.

[RomanZ]

@bsdll Windows gives service 30 seconds to save its data, so yes - it is graceful shutdown. Of course, stopping service will stop all synchronization.