If you need more than 60 Jobs, you may install additional Agents on separate Servers and define up to 60 Jobs on each Agent.
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A Job is a collection of synchronized folders and the links between them. You can define up to 60 Jobs per Agent, each connecting a different folder (including any folders within it). When a folder is linked to a Job, all of its data remains on the local drive, ensuring fast, disk-speed access (or LAN speed, if the computer is acting as a local file server). The Agent ensures that local data is the same as the data on other computers linked to that same Job, whether they are around the corner or around the world.
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If you need more than 60 Jobs, you may install additional Agents on separate Servers and define up to 60 Jobs on each Agent. |
Suppose a firm’s London office links a local folder named Clients on their local file server to the Job CLIENTS on the firm’s Server in New York. Another branch in Tokyo links a local folder also named Clients to the same Job CLIENTS. From then on, the Agent synchronizes the contents of London’s local folder Clients and Tokyo’s local folder Clients. Any change in one is synchronized by the CLIENTS Job, which makes sure that the contents in both local folders is the same.
A Job has several attributes (see Job Properties and Options):
Name - This is used by Agents to link to the Job.
Job type - This can be either WAFS/mirror (multi-directional replication), or CDP/backup, in which only the master has read-write access, and the backup computer only has read access.
Quota - This sets the maximum amount of disk space the data in the Job can take up.
Username and password - A given login credentials required to connect to the Job may give full, read/write access to a Job, or read-only access.
A new Job is created at an Agent by specifying a top-level folder to replicate. Any content in that folder is added automatically to the Job. Once the Job is created, other Agents can link to it.
When a new Agent first links to a Job, all of that Job's data appears in seconds. If you open a file before its contents have been replicated from the Server, the Agent will immediately stream the required data in real time.