Doubts about real time sync

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daimroc

I read the documentation, and it says that it syncs when the operative system notify when a changed is done, so the performance is much better then iterate for all the files periodically.

Well, my dobt is that I would like to sync a folder in a server and a backup drive that is in the network. To avoid to install many applications in the server, i was thinking to install FreeFileSync in the backup computer instead of the server. But in this case I don't know if the operative system will notify the changes to the application, because it has monitoring a remote drive, not local, so I don't know if the notification from the operative system only works in local drivers or if it works for remote folders too.



Thanks.
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Zenju

You could test this and report if it works. According to the docs (ReadDirectoryChangesW) the Server Message Block (SMB) 3.0 protocol is supported.
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xCSxXenon

I have this setup and it is working perfectly fine. It is a Windows system running RTS monitoring a remote folder hosted by another Windows system.
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daimroc

I have done some tests and yes, it works perfect, it is immediate if I create, modify or delete some file, it is notify at the moment.