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This parameter has the following settings:
Maximum Connections
Description: Specifies the maximum number of simultaneous synchronization connections to
keep.
Possible values: Any integer number between 1 and 500
Default value: 200
If the total number of online registered machines does not exceed the value in
Maximum Connections, connections to those machines are always kept, and the
management server periodically performs synchronization with each machine.
Otherwise, it connects to a number of registered machines depending on the allotted
number of simultaneous connections. After synchronization for a machine is complete, the
management server may disconnect from that machine and use the free connection for
synchronization with another machine, and so on.
(Note: Connections to machines with high synchronization priority—see Period-High Priority
later in this topic—are likely to be always kept.)
Synchronization connections are unrelated to connections such as those between Acronis
Backup Management Server and Acronis Backup 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 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.