diff --git a/services/clsi/app/coffee/RequestParser.coffee b/services/clsi/app/coffee/RequestParser.coffee
index fe22982fda..d2e67bca76 100644
--- a/services/clsi/app/coffee/RequestParser.coffee
+++ b/services/clsi/app/coffee/RequestParser.coffee
@@ -31,11 +31,11 @@ module.exports = RequestParser =
 			response.check = @_parseAttribute "check",
 				compile.options.check,
 				type: "string"
-			response.incremental = @_parseAttribute "incremental",
-				compile.options.incremental,
+			response.syncType = @_parseAttribute "syncType",
+				compile.options.syncType,
 				type: "string"
-			response.state = @_parseAttribute "state",
-				compile.options.state,
+			response.syncState = @_parseAttribute "syncState",
+				compile.options.syncState,
 				type: "string"
 
 			if response.timeout > RequestParser.MAX_TIMEOUT
diff --git a/services/clsi/app/coffee/ResourceWriter.coffee b/services/clsi/app/coffee/ResourceWriter.coffee
index a4ae42517e..fca2c43682 100644
--- a/services/clsi/app/coffee/ResourceWriter.coffee
+++ b/services/clsi/app/coffee/ResourceWriter.coffee
@@ -13,23 +13,23 @@ parallelFileDownloads = settings.parallelFileDownloads or 1
 module.exports = ResourceWriter =
 
 	syncResourcesToDisk: (request, basePath, callback = (error) ->) ->
-		if request.incremental?
-			ResourceWriter.checkState request.incremental, basePath, (error, ok) ->
-				logger.log state: request.state, result:ok, "checked state on incremental request"
+		if request.syncType? is "incremental"
+			ResourceWriter.checkSyncState request.syncState, basePath, (error, ok) ->
+				logger.log syncState: request.syncState, result:ok, "checked state on incremental request"
 				return callback new Error("invalid state") if not ok
 				ResourceWriter.saveIncrementalResourcesToDisk request.project_id, request.resources, basePath, callback
 		else
 			@saveAllResourcesToDisk request.project_id, request.resources, basePath, (error) ->
 				return callback(error) if error?
-				ResourceWriter.storeState request.state, basePath, callback
+				ResourceWriter.storeSyncState request.syncState, basePath, callback
 
-	storeState: (state, basePath, callback) ->
-		logger.log state:state, basePath:basePath, "writing state"
-		fs.writeFile Path.join(basePath, ".resource-state"), state, {encoding: 'ascii'}, callback
+	storeSyncState: (state, basePath, callback) ->
+		logger.log state:state, basePath:basePath, "writing sync state"
+		fs.writeFile Path.join(basePath, ".resource-sync-state"), state, {encoding: 'ascii'}, callback
 
-	checkState: (state, basePath, callback) ->
-		fs.readFile Path.join(basePath, ".resource-state"), {encoding:'ascii'}, (err, oldState) ->
-			logger.log state:state, oldState: oldState, basePath:basePath, err:err, "checking state"
+	checkSyncState: (state, basePath, callback) ->
+		fs.readFile Path.join(basePath, ".resource-sync-state"), {encoding:'ascii'}, (err, oldState) ->
+			logger.log state:state, oldState: oldState, basePath:basePath, err:err, "checking sync state"
 			if state is oldState
 				return callback(null, true)
 			else