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Synchronization connections are unrelated to connections such as those between Acronis
Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server and Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management
Console.
Maximum Workers
Description: Specifies the maximum number of threads to use for synchronization.
Possible values: Any integer number between 1 and 100
Default value: 30
The management server's process uses special threads—called worker threads or workers—
to perform synchronization for a registered machine which is connected for synchronization.
Each worker performs synchronization for exactly one machine at a time.
A connected machine to be synchronized waits for an available worker. For this reason, the
actual number of workers will never exceed the maximum number of connections (see
Maximum Connections described previously).
Period (in seconds)
Description: Specifies how often, in seconds, to perform synchronization for machines that
have a normal synchronization priority—typically, the machines without currently running
centralized backup tasks.
Possible values: Any integer number between 120 and 2147483647
Default value: 120
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server tries to perform synchronization for each
normal-priority machine once in the number of seconds given by Period, by using an
available worker thread (see Maximum Workers described previously).
If there are fewer worker threads than normal-priority machines, the actual interval between
synchronizations may be longer than the value of this parameter.
Period-High Priority (in seconds)
Description: Specifies how often, in seconds, to perform synchronization for machines that
have a high synchronization priority—typically, the machines with currently running
centralized backup tasks.
Possible values: Any integer number between 15 and 2147483647
Default value: 15
This parameter is analogous to the Period parameter described previously.
Real-Time Monitoring
Description: Specifies whether to perform real-time monitoring of registered machines
instead of using a polling mechanism.
Possible values: True or False
Default value: False
By default, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server connects to registered
machines to perform synchronization—in particular, to retrieve data such as backup logs.
This approach is known as a polling mechanism.
If Real Time Monitoring is set to True, the management server instead sends requests to
machines to provide new data whenever it will appear, and then enters a listening mode.
This approach is called real-time monitoring.
Real-time monitoring may reduce network traffic—for example, when centralized backup
tasks run infrequently. However, it is effective only when there are relatively few registered
machines.
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