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File Transfer Receiver (ftr) Continually resyncing same documents even though they have not changed

rhinmass — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 16:50:17 GMT

We bootstrapped our system with over 40,000 documents and are replicating to 12 FTR endpoints. Everything is working fine, except that as new documents are added, some (~40 so far), but not all, are continually picked up and re-transmitted to all endpoints each time a replication job runs. The doc

Re: File Transfer Receiver (ftr) Continually resyncing same documents even though they have not changed

rhinmass — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 17:10:01 GMT

Does anyone know if this is the expected behavior, or are unchanged files not supposed to be replicated each time the replication job runs?

Re: File Transfer Receiver (ftr) Continually resyncing same documents even though they have not changed

mrogers — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 17:41:11 GMT

unchanged files should not be sent again. That is the metadata should be but not the content.

Re: File Transfer Receiver (ftr) Continually resyncing same documents even though they have not changed

rhinmass — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 20:55:30 GMT

Thanks for your response! However, that is not the behavior I am seeing. Following the example in this URL: http://tribloom.com/blogs/michael/2011/02/12/introducing-file-system-transfer-receiver, I am noticing the following behavior.

- First time replication is run the file is transmitted
- Second time replication is run the file is not transmitted (as expected)
- At this point I edit the file using the inline edit from share
- Third time replication is run the file is transmitted (as expected)
- Fourth time replication is run the file is again transmitted (not expected)
- The file continues to retransmit, and update its timestamp, on every subsequent replication, even though it hasn't been touched.

Maybe there is something I need to configure to suppress retransmitting of files that haven't changed?