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Commit f78558a5 authored by Niko Ehrenfeuchter's avatar Niko Ehrenfeuchter :keyboard:
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Explain notifications and transfer spooling.

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transfers, as well as on transfer interruptions (system being shutdown or
similar).
- **Error reporting:** in addition to user notifications, the service will send
error notifications via email to a separate admin address.
error notifications via email to a separate admin address. Optionally, the
service offers the possibility to monitor free disk space on the local disks
and send notifications to the admins as well. Various measures are implemented
to prevent the service from flooding you with emails.
- **Tray Application:** complementary to the service an application running in
the system tray is provided, showing details on what's going on to the user.
- **Headless and GUI:** submitting a folder for transfer can either be done by
......@@ -53,7 +56,21 @@ For any user that should be allowed to use the transfer service, a dedicated
folder has to exist on this network share, the name of the folder being the
(short) AD account name (i.e. the login name or *sAMAccountName*) of the user.
- spooling
After the user initiates a transfer (i.e. hands over a folder to the AutoTx
service), the folder gets **immediately** moved to the *spooling* location on
the same disk. This is done to prevent users from accidentially messing with
folders subject to being transferred as well as for internal bookkeeping of what
has to be transferred.
When no other transfer is running and all system parameters are within their
valid ranges, the AutoTx service will start copying the files and folders to a
temporary transfer directory inside the target location. Only when a transfer
has completed, it will be moved from the temporary location over to the user's
folder. This has the benefit that a user can't accidentially access data from
incomplete transfers as well as it serves as a kind of implicit notification: if
a folder shows up in their location, the user will know it has been fully
transferred.
- temp location
- finalize
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