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Synchronization
Specifies how Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Server connects to registered
machines for deployment of centralized policies, retrieval of logs and backup plan states, and
similar actions—collectively called synchronization.
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 & Recovery 10 Management Server and Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 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 & Recovery 10 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).