More About Synchronization

MOVEit Automation can replicate the contents of two folders to ensure that the files and folder structures remain in sync. Any two folders on the MOVEit Automation local hard drive, other Windows servers/shares, FTP servers, FTPS servers, SFTP servers and/or MOVEit Transfer servers can be involved in a single synchronization task.

Synchronization tasks consist of Folder A, Folder B, and a sync direction, which can be unidirectional (from Folder A to Folder B) or bidirectional (Folder A to Folder B, and Folder B to Folder A). Additional options control how to handle deletions and extra files.

Synchronization tasks:

• Have a schedule.
• Can be event driven if hosts permit file notifications.
• Can be configured to transfer and/or exclude folders and files based on name, extension, or size. For more information, see Sync Folders - General Settings.
• Next Action - Send Email and Next action -Run Task actions can be included.
• A special [SyncReport()] macro can be used to summarize actions taken by sync tasks.

Synchronization tasks can:

• Delete files and folders from one folder if MOVEit Automation notices they have been deleted from another folder.
• Replicate (add and trim) empty folder structures. (Traditional tasks only create folder structures, and do so only if files are present in them.)
• Respond to file and folder create, delete and rename events. (Traditional tasks only react to file create or rename events.)
• Be configured to automatically handle new files and create destination subfolders as necessary.

Synchronization tasks cannot:

• Run processes.
• Delete/rename/move files on sources after copying them to destinations.
• Rename downloaded files and folders before writing or creating them on destinations.
• Pull from multiple destinations in a single task.
• Push to multiple destinations in a single task.
• Work with AS1, AS2, AS3 and SMTP/POP3 (email) sources and destinations.
• Select source files based on date criteria (such as "older than 60 days").
• Handle "blind" downloads (typically through FTP servers that do not provide directory listings).
• Zip or unzip files.
• Issue per-file FTP commands.
  
• Permissions and Settings

In most cases, the account MOVEit Automation uses to authenticate to folders used in sync tasks requires permissions to:

• Read, write, list and delete files
• Overwrite existing files (this is a separate folder-level option on MOVEit Transfer folders)
• Create and remove subfolders files (this is Subs permission in MOVEit Transfer)