PeerSync Workstation Edition

PeerSync Workstation is the ideal way to synchronise from your desktop or laptop to server. It is installed on the desktop/workstation or laptop, not the server, but can synchronise to and from a server. It can also synchronise to a secondary storage device.

PeerSync Workstation gives you:

Backup and synchronisation - of your important files with another PC, server or storage device.
Background operation - unobtrusively runs in the background, allowing other operations to be performed.
Real-time updating - of important documents and data files.
Multiple source-target configurations - for speed and flexibility when dealing with multiple computers.
Open file manager option - saves all your files, even the ones that are in use.
Transparent, around-the-clock data availability - for the network administrator.

Need to provide a centralised, automated backup of laptops and PCs for long-term file backup, recovery, revisioning, even distribution? Not an easy goal to achieve unless PeerSync is utilised. The PeerSync Laptop & PC Backup Package addresses each of these challenges and enables centralised configuration, deployment and monitoring. The result, continuous data protection for both laptops and PCs.

You configure PeerSync Workstation by selecting "Jobs" (a Job is a source-target file backup/synchronisation scenario). Each job can have its own unique set of options. For example, one job can run in real-time, one can run every night at 12:00 and exclude all Excel files, one can run every 10 minutes and use "bi-directional synchronisation", etc. PeerSync Workstation allows very precise control over each file synchronisation/replication operation.

PeerSync Workstation features extensive operating modes, including:

True event driven real-time detection
Interval, i.e. every 10 minutes, every 6 hours, etc.
Scheduled, i.e. every Monday and Friday at 12:00 am
On demand
From a desktop shortcut
From the command line
At startup
As a true Windows service

There is an introductory presentation/tutorial that takes you through all the above modes, plus all the standard features that make up the product. It will open in a pop-up so make your browser does not block these.

The features outlined in the presentation can be summarised as follows:

File Synchronisation:
New or updated files are copied from a source location to a target location. Only files that are new or changed are copied.
File Replication:
This is the same as File Synchronisation with the added feature of deletions. If a file is deleted off the source, it will also be deleted from the target. This is a powerful feature for managing space and clutter.
Intelligent File Deletion:
Replicated or deleted files can be permanently deleted with this feature, or sent to a user-specified "temporary" or "deletions" folder. Files are held in the "temporary" or "deletions" folder and you can set them to be automatically deleted after a specified number of days. This is a powerful feature for managing storage space, and providing protection from accidental deletions.
Bi-Directional File Synchronisation:
This allows files to be synchronised in both directions between multiple machines.
Compression: At the file or folder level, compressed files can be password protected. Compressing files can greatly reduce file transfer times.
File Failure Retry and Connection Loss Detection:
This allows PeerSync to monitor connections that have failed, as well as files that have failed to copy, and allows a specified amount of retries on a specified interval to be made.
Administrative Summaries:
These reports provide you with a way to summarise activity across a set of servers, so you don't have to look at what has happened on each server individually.
Unicode File Synchronisation:
PeerSync Server allow you to synchronise files containing Unicode (Mac) and Asian characters.
Bandwidth Throttling:
This is a performance-enhancing feature. Based on the timing of actual packets sent and received, PeerSync dynamically adjusts the timing between packets sent to optimise bandwidth utilisation.
Advanced Reporting:
These options allow log files, administrative summaries, and email reporting to be configured for individual folders/jobs.
File Revisioning:
This feature keeps a specified number of backup copies of a file.
Import Variables such as Folder Path, Log File Names and Deletion Folders:
Importing variables permits you to implement a faster way to handle a number of similar jobs.
Files/Folders Included or Excluded:
This is done via extensive filtering capabilities.
Support for UNC file/path names:
This includes dynamic mapped drive creation, as well as local drives.
Enhanced Service Control/Display:
This allows you the ability to monitor PeerSync Workstation when running it as a service.
Blackout Setting:
This feature gives the ability to blackout certain times of the day when data can be collected in real-time (from local folders) and processed only when the blackout period has ended. This feature will optimise nightly syncs as it will eliminate the time-consuming comparison and overhead processing of a scheduled scan.
PeerSync Observer:
From your desktop, you can monitor the activities of computers running PeerSync Workstation across a network. This allows you to see how PeerSync Workstation is doing on other systems without having to remotely log into each separately.
Profile Display Options:
These can be set to display at different levels: Basic through Advanced.
The PeerSync Profiler:
This feature gives PeerSync Workstation a powerful and easy-to-use GUI interface.
Application Priority Setting:
By default PeerSync Workstation is designed to run in the background with minimal impact on other applications and processes. Additionally, PeerSync offers 4 application priority settings from Low to High.
Increase Read/Write Buffer size to 1 Mb:
This option allows you to more efficiently handle very large files when you are using very high bandwidth.
Remote Drive File Synchronisation:
PeerSync allows synchronisation between remote drives.

The add-on modules available in the PeerSync Workstation Edition are

A full video description of some of these advanced features is available.

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