Full Net Folder synchronizations occur according to individual Net Folder schedules, or if no schedule is defined for the Net Folder, then they occur according to the associated Net Folder Server’s synchronization schedule.

If no schedule is set, then it falls to Filr administrators to manually synchronize them.

Filr then walks the directory structure, collecting meta data (name, size, dates, ACL information, etc.) about each folder and file as it goes.

Then Filr sends the folder and file names and ACL information to each Filr Search appliance to be indexed.

This makes it possible for users to search for folder and file names, provided that they have sufficient rights on the file system to see them.

The majority of Net Folder synchronization work occurs on the File appliance.