# Sync DataSource **URL:** \ **Category:** Pydio Cells\ **Created:** [October 23, 2019, 11:17am UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/sync-datasource/2868 "2019-10-23T11:17:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lubovic](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/forum.pydio.com/lubovic/32/941_2.png) [@lubovic](https://forum.pydio.com/u/lubovic)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 11:17am UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/sync-datasource/2868/1 "2019-10-23T11:17:51Z")
Hello, When I upload a file by ftp, it doesn’t sync in the pydio web interface. I need to go to /settings/admin/scheduler and manually refresh the datasource. Is this intentional or a bug? Can I tell the scheduler to Sync DataSource every 5 minutes for example ? Or better, Sync Datasource when I click on the refresh icon in the web interface. Thanks ! ---
**Author:** ![zayn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a87d85/32.png) [@zayn](https://forum.pydio.com/u/zayn)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 1:28pm UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/sync-datasource/2868/2 "2019-10-23T13:28:49Z")
Hello @lubovic, you can make use of the `cells-ctl` client to resync a datasource if put data directly on the datasource (without going through the webUI). [https://download.pydio.com/pub/cells/release/](https://download.pydio.com/pub/cells/release/) You can download the cells-ctl matching your cells version and then run the following command by just modifying **pydiods1** , to your **datasource-name**. Then you could script that to your ftp uploads to make sure that everything is in sync. ```auto ./cells-ctl data sync --service pydio.grpc.data.sync.pydiods1 ``` ---
**Author:** ![lubovic](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/forum.pydio.com/lubovic/32/941_2.png) [@lubovic](https://forum.pydio.com/u/lubovic)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 1:45pm UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/sync-datasource/2868/3 "2019-10-23T13:45:53Z")
Awesome! It’s working so nice. Thanks a lot! ---
**Author:** ![bsinou](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/forum.pydio.com/bsinou/32/476_2.png) [@bsinou](https://forum.pydio.com/u/bsinou)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/sync-datasource/2868/4 "2019-10-23T16:25:46Z")
Just for the record, during the last adjustments of the API before v2.0, we have merged all useful commands from `cells-ctl` directly in the main cells CLI. So as from the [2.0.0-rc2](https://github.com/pydio/cells/releases) to launch a resync from your shell, you should now do: ```auto ./cells data sync --service pydio.grpc.data.sync.pydiods1 # or even, with the new flag: ./cells data sync --datasource pydiods1 ``` ---
**Author:** ![adrianbj](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/forum.pydio.com/adrianbj/32/235_2.png) [@adrianbj](https://forum.pydio.com/u/adrianbj)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2020, 11:52pm UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/sync-datasource/2868/5 "2020-10-30T23:52:59Z")
I am just moving from Pydio 8 to cells and I am sure that with 8 FTP’d (or samba’d) files were automatically shown in the web interface when browsing. Are you guys saying that this has now changed and we need to somehow run ./cells data sync every time a new file is added not via the web interface? How are you triggering that sync, or should it just be periodic via a cronjob? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![bsinou](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/forum.pydio.com/bsinou/32/476_2.png) [@bsinou](https://forum.pydio.com/u/bsinou)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 12:12pm UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/sync-datasource/2868/6 "2020-11-03T12:12:00Z")
yes. For the time being: - SAMBA file system are not supported - if you directly add some files on the file system (without going through the API), you have to explicitly trigger a datasource resync for the files to be _seen_ by Cells. Yet, you have more tools that just the web UI to add files, typically, the [cells-client](https://github.com/pydio/cells-client) is a good option, depending on what you want to achieve. ---
**Author:** ![adrianbj](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/forum.pydio.com/adrianbj/32/235_2.png) [@adrianbj](https://forum.pydio.com/u/adrianbj)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/sync-datasource/2868/7 "2020-11-03T13:06:59Z")
Thanks for letting me know. Unfortunately that seems pretty cumbersome - I have users that connect to the drive directly (via samba) and other users that use the cells web interface. A datasource resync currently takes about 5 minutes so if a user who is connecting via samba wants to make a file available to someone connecting via the cells interface they won’t have access to it until a resync has been run. Why can’t cells resync the current folder/path whenever it is accessed / opened? Surely resyncing that way would be very quick and solve this problem completely. I am pretty sure this is how Pydio 8 going all the way back to Ajaxexplorer worked. Please tell me this is something that might come back. ---
**Author:** ![drzraf](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/forum.pydio.com/drzraf/32/1207_2.png) [@drzraf](https://forum.pydio.com/u/drzraf)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2020, 2:02pm UTC](https://forum.pydio.com/t/sync-datasource/2868/8 "2020-11-03T14:02:55Z")
Mentioning [Issue with adding Datasource](https://forum.pydio.com/t/issue-with-adding-datasource/3294/5) here since it’s about problems creating a datasource from a folder already containing files unknown (yet) to Cells. Although the `cells-ctl` hint is very useful, I also think that “quick / immediate / inotify-based” sync out-of-the-box would be a very important feature. It’s the only alternative when the web-importer is not practical (and there could be a **variety** of reasons): - too many / too big files - files no present locally / files already on the servers - files must not be imported but only discovered to avoid duplication - backend is slow (S3 / Swift) and upload has been done via a side-channel For all these cases a good sync’ is a strongly needed fallback (if not a first-class feature).