I have a question. I am trying to configure syncthing to do a one way sync to another server (I believe I have it correctly configured) and I was wondering if it was okay to schedule the sync every 8 to 12 hours on the sender side?
As I understand it I have it set up as one server is the sender and the other server is the receiver. My goal here is to cut down on the traffic as the transfers increase.
I have the sender side setup/configured to scan every 12 hours and I have the receiver side set up to scan every 8 hours. Now; will the receiver side pull files during the scan? Or will it wait to have them sent to it by the sender when it scans during it’s scheduled time?
If you disable the watcher, and the sender folder is set up as send only, then you can change the scanning interval on the sender as you say. The receiver scanning interval doesn’t matter as this does not trigger any sending from the sender.
If you need a fixed schedule, then you need to setup some kind of task scheduler which gets a little more complicated.
If you set up a 12 hour “sender scan schedule” and the sender and receiver remain connected all the time you should achieve what you want. Beware, though if the receiver is offline when the sender rescans, the receiver will get the update as soon as it reconnects, and the next scan still matches the sender’s schedule, so the receiver may receive a second update before the 12 hours.