Ability to "Scan" only new files/updates

InDashMP3 · Joined: 22 Aug 2007 Posts: 8

Am I wrong, doesn't the feature exist now???? I seems like it does a compare the first time, but that is it???
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JBrandon · Guest

There have been several posts regarding improvments to VVEngine to avoid scanning entire source and destination for a realtime mirror. Does the current version offer this improvment. I am a user of VV and would like to have a realtime mirror with archiving but because I have hundreds of thousands of files the comparison takes much too long. Is this now available with the current VVEngine? As of Oct 2008? BTW - the product is amazing in its capabilities. Thank you!

Travelcard · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 77

I'm sorry, but surely you can see from the previous few posts that that information is a secret. Laughing

Zerocool · Guest

Wow, 2 years later and no realtime syncing. This is a very nice piece of software with a simple UI. I would love to see this feature get off the ground sometime soon. I currently use VVEngine to sync a NLB cluster with Web files - in the millions - and splitting up the tree into multiple profiles does help. I currently have about 30 profiles on my wwwroot folder and I got the overall sync time down to about 1 min. 30 sec.

davros · Guest

Bump. Would love to see this implemented! Scan target across network taking about 20 mins (250k files)

TGRMN Software · Site Admin Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 8682

Hi, we are currently working on this! Smile

and should have a beta out soon. VVEngine will monitor the folders and keep track of what files / folders have changed... so the rescan can be focused on what has actually changed, without the need to rescan the entire folders. This will be very useful especially when one of the two locations to scan is relatively slow.

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econner · Guest

Do you have a timeframe of when this feature will be available

TGRMN Software · Site Admin Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 8682

In a few weeks. Please write to support@tgrmn.com if interested in trying the beta when available. thanks
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dave · Guest

Is there an update to this feature yet? I'm working with about 5 million files and majority of them are for archival so it's just a small amount that require updating each day. It would be nice to have the software NOT check the entire directly as if it's a new scan on a daily basis. It's taking over 3 hrs just to "check" at this point.

dave · Guest

TGRMN Software · Site Admin Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 8682

Hello

which part of the scanning takes the longer time? Is that the remote scanning? Are you synchronizing or replicating?

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dave · Guest

I have nearly 7million files and there are about 10 GBs of changes per day (almost evenly) spread across 4 different volumes on the same SAN, connected by 1 W 2K3 server. The problem with slow transfer to another 2008 R2 server was with 1 created profile scanning all 4 different volumes as one job. It would take 40 mins to transfer 2.6 GBs over a CAT 6 network - not worth using with this result. No CRC checks or "temporary files" before copying either to slow it down.

Workaround:
When I split the jobs as 4 separate profiles, each profile associated with 1 volume, the replication (mirror) was much faster. That 2.6 GBs took less than 5 mins. The program must be choking having to check/scan millions of files and then attempting to replicate afterwards.

I was going to settle with using robocopy or xcopy but this workaround is a decent enough solution for now.

malega · Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 64

it is now approaching the fourth anniversary since TGRMN said on Nov. 29, 2006, it was working on this feature for real-time mirroring.

In January 2009, there was a post from TGRMN that it would be available in a few weeks in beta.

I think this is the one missing feature that prevents the program from realizing its full potential.

I for one will not upgrade until this feature is available.

Are there are technical reasons why this is taking so long or is vice versa no longer being developed? Thanks.

TGRMN Software · Site Admin Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 8682

Hello, I am sorry but this feature was put on hold for technical reasons and won't be included in VVEngine 2.0 ; however this feature and the ability to control multiple remote machines with one VVEngine interface are at the top of our list for the next version.
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