Synchronization

This section discusses MFT Server synchronization. MFT Server enables you to set up synchronization processes between various hosts, regardless whether those hosts have built-in file transfer protocols like FTP/S, SFTP, Amazon S3, and many others, or have no file transfer protocol at all. Synchronization can be configured using different variations of a hub and spoke network topology, such as spoke-to-hub, hub-to-spoke, and even spoke-to-spoke.

 

So, for example, you may set up synchronizations between:

 

• MFT Server and an FTP/S host

• MFT Server and an SFTP host

• MFT Server and an Amazon S3

• An SFTP host and Amazon S3

• Amazon S3 and Azure Files

 

MFT Server supports a wide range of trading partner protocols (see Trading Partners) so you can set up several more synchronization combinations.

 

Synchronizing with a host with no file transfer protocol

 

MFT Server also supports synchronizations with hosts that don't have any file transfer protocol service. To perform synchronizations with these hosts, you can simply install the MFT Server Agent on them. MFT Server Agent is a platform independent, low footprint, low maintenance application that communicates with your MFT Server instance via the Adding an Agent Service.