Bi-directional Example

async bi-directional mode, command-line example and output

This section includes typical async usage for bi-directional synchronization.

Note:

You can synchronize between a Windows endpoint and a Windows server, as well as between a Windows endpoint and a Linux, OSX, or Solaris server. In async, the path separator "/" works equally well on Windows and other platforms. The path separator "\" is platform-agnostic only for the options -d/r/L/R/B/b and --keep-dir-local/remote. In filtering rules, however, "\" is exclusively a quoting operator and "/" is the only path separator recognized. The examples below use "/" uniformly.

Pair name = "asyncTwoWay"
Local directory is c:/fio/S
Remote directory and login is root@192.168.200.218:/mnt/fio/S (Linux machine)
Password is v00d00
Target rate = 100,000 Kbps or 100 Mbps
No encryption
Transfer policy = fair
Read-block size = 1048576 or 1MB
Write-block size = 1048576 or 1MB
Continuous transfer
Bidirectional transfer

Sample Command:

> async -N asyncTwoWay -d c:/fio/S -r root@192.168.200.218:/mnt/fio/S -w v00d00 -l 100M -c none -a fair -g 1M -G 1M -C -K BIDI

Sample Output:

/                                                             SYNCHRONIZED
/a                                                            SYNCHRONIZED
/b                                                            SYNCHRONIZED
/c                                                            SYNCHRONIZED
/DIR1                                                         SYNCHRONIZED
/A1                                                           SYNCHRONIZED
/DIR2                                                         SYNCHRONIZED
/A2                                                           SYNCHRONIZED
/REMOTE_DIR1                                                  SYNCHRONIZED
/REMOTE_DIR2                                                  SYNCHRONIZED
/REMOTE_DIR1                                                  SYNCHRONIZED(del)
/DIR1/a                                                       SYNCHRONIZED
/DIR1/b                                                       SYNCHRONIZED
/DIR1/c                                                       SYNCHRONIZED
[idle    ] Found/Synced/Pending/Error/Conflict=9/9/0/0/0