TRACKER SENSING METHOD FOR REGULATING SYNCHRONIZATION OF AUDIT FILES BETWEEN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY HOSTS

A method for sensing and regulating the level of synchronization between a file of audit blocks generated in a primary host for transfer to a secondary host. The audit files in a primary host are divided into audit blocks which are each identified with an audit block serial number. The individual audit blocks are transmitted through a network from a primary host to a secondary host wherein a tracker mechanism monitors the difference between the number of received audit blocks and the number of generated audit blocks residing at the primary host waiting to be transferred. When the disparity between the audit blocks received and the generated audit blocks waiting to be transmitted reaches a certain critical level, the tracker mechanism will initiate an advance speed up program to expedite the transfer in order to bring the primary and secondary audit files into greater synchronism. Further, the acknowledgment level can be set to indicate the number of audit blocks received in the secondary host for information back to the primary host and the acknowledgment level can be utilized in order to preset a critical value which will indicate that the speed up transfer operation should be initiated.