Synctoy 2.0 Beta - very slow synch of offline folders

[Gustav]

Thank you for version 2.0.
All looks fine.
However when I create a new folder pair:
- A drive on the PC with offline files (Z:\)
- A folder on an external USB drive
The first phase of synch (detecting changes on drive Z is extremely
slow.
It was not finished after 12 hours.
The volume is about 5 GB.
The files are offline, it does not make any difference if Z: is
connected to the server or not.
I think I have done this before with 1.4 and it worked.
Any ideas?
Regards,

 

[SkyBeam]

Thank you for version 2.0.
All looks fine.
However when I create a new folder pair:
- A drive on the PC with offline files (Z:\)
- A folder on an external USB drive
The first phase of synch (detecting changes on drive Z is extremely
slow.
It was not finished after 12 hours.
The volume is about 5 GB.
The files are offline, it does not make any difference if Z: is
connected to the server or not.
I think I have done this before with 1.4 and it worked.
Any ideas?

Same problem here. I try to sync a sub-directory on a network drive (no
offline files) to an external IEEE 1394 hard disk drive. It seems to stuck in
folders with lots of small files. There is a copy of the Windows XP Home
stored on that share and it takes hours to check for changes within the the
I386\ folder (in fact I did not yet manage to leave it sync within a full
day).

During sync I see some network activity. About 0.28% on my 1Gbps network
connection.

 

[Swifty]

Same problem here. I try to sync a sub-directory on a network drive (no
offline files) to an external IEEE 1394 hard disk drive.

Similar problem here. I'm trying to backup a directory on our
departmental server at work with a USB drive on my home PC as a simple
"Disaster Recovery" mechanism. SyncToy 1 would do the job, albeit taking
a day or two. SyncToy 2 beta seems to grind to a halt, eventually
saying "An internal breakpoint has been reached". If I use the offered
"debug" option it goes directly to "Encountered an error and needs to be
closed".

 

[Horst-Peter.Rother]

Similar problem here. I'm trying to backup a directory on our
departmental server at work with a USB drive on my home PC as a simple
"Disaster Recovery" mechanism.SyncToy1 would do the job, albeit taking
  a day or two.SyncToy2 beta seems to grind to a halt, eventually
saying "An internal breakpoint has been reached". If I use the offered
"debug" option it goes directly to "Encountered an error and needs to be
closed".

Just a little additional concern:
Is this discussion monitored at all by any of the developers?
My impression is that only us poor users are raising our voices here.
Anybody from the development team still out there?
Any comments or hints about the roadmap of this cute little tool?
Regards,
Gustav

 

[Swifty]

Is this discussion monitored at all by any of the developers?
My impression is that only us poor users are raising our voices here.

My impression is that there was a developer here a few weeks ago. We
gave them several bugs to work on, and they have not come back.

Hopefully they are busy fixing bugs. I know that I rarely monitor my
input sources once I get stuck into a really good bug. I had one
recently that took me about a week to fix, and I had over a thousand
emails when I finally looked.

 

[Ashish]

Hi,

I'd like to get some more details on this problem - am not able to see the
original post for some reason. How big is your data set that you're trying to
synchronize? Is your network drive read-only or writeable as well? What do
you mean with "offline folders"?

Please let us know that exact setup that you're trying to synchronize and we
will try to reproduce this on our side to understand what's going on. If this
is a regression from the previous version of SyncToy we'd definitely like to
take a look.

Ashish Shah
SyncToy Development

 

[Toby Simmons]

I'm seeing the same issue. I'm comparing 3 gig of data in 17,500+ files with
one folder pair, another one has 2.5 gig in 14,000+ files. Comparison takes
hours (and I get impatient and quit before finishing.)

 

[Toby Simmons]

What else might you need to know, Ashish?

Network drive is r/w and I am not using any kind of "offline folders." I'm
simply trying to sync between my local drive and a UNC path on a server,
running Windows 2000 Server. I am an admin on both machines.