alans17

That's actually pretty easy to do. There's more than one way to skin that cat.

That's precisely what I figured. You think I would have the same problem if I made each user responsible for their own syncs, though?

I'm also going to attempt to use it for roaming profiles on my Macs without having to use OS X Server.

I have not yet implemented this, but I like the idea so much that I think I will... Lightroom syncing across multiple devices! Lightroom doesn't care if you put your images on a network share, but your catalog must be run from your local machine. I think Sync can be used for a two-pronged approach to keep everything in sync and backed up. 1.) First, move the images onto a local NAS with Sync installed (such as unRAID or using VM's). 2.) Move the catalog to a shared portion of your local hard drive (such as "/Users/Shared" on OS X). 3.) Rebuild the catalot to point to your networked images. At this point, you've successfully disjointed your catalog from your images. Now to start syncing. 1.) Create shares for the catalog on your local machine and sync it out to any other machines you have. Since it's already in the "/Users/Shared" folder, it's already accessible from every account on the local machine except now it's accessible from every account on every machine. 2.) Sync the catalog over to the NAS. Now it's located on every client machine and the NAS. In my environment, that's 4-way redundancy. Since the Lightroom catalog is platform agnostic, this will work in mixed Mac/Windows environments! That's all well and good, but this can be taken to the next level. Even though the catalog is now in multiple places, the images on the NAS still provide a single point of failure. However, we can back up the entire image folder using Sync to a secondary remote NAS or VPS.

This VPS concept is pretty fascinating. I had never heard of it, but now I'm intrigued! I'll be looking further into it when I get home tonight. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Has anyone attempted this? I have multiple Macs for which I would like to establish roaming profiles without implementing OSX Server. This is what I'm thinking... 1.) Create the same accounts across all Macs. This would create the various users inside the Users folder. 2.) Create an "Administrator" account on each mac that would auto-launch at startup and run BT Sync. 3.) Sync the entire Users folder with the rest of the Macs. I'm reasonably sure that this would get all the files where they need to go without any major headaches. I'm just wondering if it's going to cause permissions issues. The other alternative would be to configure individual syncs for each user that would auto-launch whenever taht user logs in. It's not that hard to implement, but would mean more syncs to maintain. Either way, I plan on also maintaining a 24/7 file server that will also participate in all of these syncs so that a sync will always occur even if only one Mac is on.