Real-time sync on slow link

[adamsre]

Hey All,
Does anyone have any suggestions with how to deal with failures on RTS over a slow link? I have a satellite connection from one of my servers synchronizing data back to a earth-station where it is viewed. The problem is that with the satellite speeds, the majority of the files are properly transferred, however, I get several failures. To compensate, I have allowed it to go back in the folders, and repeatedly try to resync - which it eventually does. Issue with this is the length of time it starts to take as the number of folders build up. I have a collection of images that are updated on an almost hourly basis, and need to be synchronized back to the earth station. If I go through, and make exclusions, I can speed the process up, by limiting the number of folders that it is continuously trying to sync. This works... however, I find that I constantly need to go back and modify the exclusion list, or it gets overwhelmed.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might better utilize RTS - to further minimize, or eliminate the failures, or perhaps script the exclusion list to only contain the last three days worth of data?

Thanks!

Ed: I am running 6.2.02 32 bit - I know there is a newer version available, but I wasn't sure if this was me screwing up a config or something.

[RiseFly]

May be you can try to setup serveral tasks, each task synchronizes some sub-folders.
If you are using the FTP synchronization, you can limit the speed of the tasks that change files slowly.
Please also consider to upgrade the version, becasue you are using a bit more old version.
The task settings are sitll usable after upgrade to the new version.

[adamsre]

Thanks much for the reply. I've just been manually editing the task to exclude all but the last three days. Is there a way to run a script that would modify the task once a week to only include the last three days for sync'ing? Basically, as the weeks progress, I would want to exclude an entire month once I have gotten beyond three days into the month. The connection is getting repaired out there shortly, but I still need to find a way to automate the process of "cleaning up" the sync folders. Any thoughts / ideas?

Thanks!!!

[RiseFly]

BestSync supports some commands in the command line, may be you can use the command line to accoplish your task:
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For the details, please refer to this page:
http://www.risefly.com/help/cmdline.htm

fd1="path" ; //Modify the path of folder1;
fd2="path" ; //Modify the path of folder2;
fdb="path" ; //Modify the path of backup folder;
ftf="YYYYMMDD-hhmmss"; //Specify "From-Time" of the timestamp filtering range.
ftt="YYYYMMDD-hhmmss"; //Specify "To-Time" of the timestamp filtering range.
//Only the files with the timestamp that is from "ftf" to "ftt" are copied.
//If "ftf" is present and "ftt" is absent, the current time is used for "ftt".
flt="*.ext1;*.ext2" ; //The file types used to filter the files.
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And, does the following filtering option meet your demands?