topic Re: How to force a Full Sync in Alfresco Archive

How to force a Full Sync

james13 — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 07:17:12 GMT

Hello,I have just installed the last version of Alfresco 5.0.d in a Windows Server x64 and I have connected it to the LDAP AD. Alfresco didn't crate some users and I would force a FULL Sync LDAP->Alfresco. I have tried to do it restarting the system but I know there is a timestamp that Alfresco c

Re: How to force a Full Sync

james13 — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 17:34:52 GMT

someone can help me?

Re: How to force a Full Sync

mandalinaveen — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 05:20:40 GMT

Hi,
Are you using Enterprise edition or community edition. In Enterprise edition go to admin console and in the Directory management goto sync settings.
Uncheck the Sync changes only and check the allow deletions. Check the sync when startup. It will force the full sync

Regards,
Naveen.

Re: How to force a Full Sync

james13 — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 05:59:29 GMT

Hi, I am using the community edition
Thanks
James

Re: How to force a Full Sync

bopolissimus — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 21:12:48 GMT

in Community edition Full sync never happens on startup, only incremental syncs happen at startup. Full sync can only happen via the scheduled sync job. Assuming that what you want to do is:

1. do one full sync
2. switch back to incremental sync

You'll want to do the following:

1. in alfresco-global.properties, set:
   synchronization.import.cron=0 30 9 * * ?

   Note that that's quartz cron, not unix cron. So the first number is
   *seconds*. I set it to 9:30 just for debugging. You would set it to
   a few (e.g., 5-10) minutes. It needs to be set long enough away from
   now that alfresco would finish starting up before the cron job fires.

2. in the same file, set:
   synchronization.synchronizeChangesOnly=false

3. save that file and restart alfresco.

4. wait for the sync to fire and complete.

5. change the schedule back to something more reasonable, e.g., midnight.

6. change synchronizeChangesOnly to true so the next scheduled
   sync will be incremental.

7. restart alfresco.

If your LDAP is small enough that you don't mind doing full syncs all the time, you could just keep synchronizeChangesOnly=false all the time.