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( ... as I would obviously have found out had I tried it out before just asking :-) ... )

But thanks for the quick feedback,
tim.

Hello,

I have understood that the difference between "Mirror" and "Update" is that "Mirror" will delete files if necessary, whereas "Update" will not delete; merely add.

So what happens if I activate "Detect moved files" when using "Update"? Will the moved file be deleted from the old location or ...

Hi PIerry,

thanks again for your feedback. I agree that your second bullet is the easiest solution. Unfortunately I do not think it will work for me, because:

imagine having 3 FFS jobs planned:
- one jobs runs every 10 minutes writing to location A
- one job running every hour writing to ...

PS -

the manual says that in my scenario "other instances are queued to wait."

If that means that the other FFS jobs are merely paused and wait for the lock to be lifted and will then resume their work; that would not be a problem.

Anyone know if my interpretation is correct?

Cheers,
tim

Hello PIerry,

thanks for the quick response.

I agree that the safest way would be to schedule them not to overlap. However, if the task scheduled in the windows task scheduler cannot run, because the machine isn't up, then the scheduler will start those tasks as soon as he can, and this can then ...

Hello,

I have several ffs batch jobs scheduled with windows task scheduler. All have
- the same source drive & source directories
- the same target drive
- but different target directories.

Will I run into any problems (file locks etc.) if the windows task scheduler causes several batch jobs to ...