How To Sync Folders At Different Levels On Different Machines

[Connor0308]

Dear all,

 

I started with BTSync to have my different devices synced. Until now, I have set up a central server and my two cell phones. First thing: Backing up works great and as expected.

After this, I now want to expand this to my two home servers. And here, I start to struggle.

What I want to do is to backup my two cell phone photos to a central server. As said, this works.

The backup is done do /backup/cell/cell1/photos respectively /backup/cell/cell2/photos.

The whole directory /backup/cell shall afterwards be backed up to another machine. If I try to add the folder on the server via the GUI, it gives me an error, telling me that the desired directory can't be added to sync, as it contains a folder that is already synced.

 

How can I get around this issue?

Thank you for your help,

br,

 

Connor

Edited January 15, 2016 by Connor0308

[Moe]

What you want to achieve is called "nested shares" and I discourage you from doing so. There is just a bunch of things that can go wrong if you have nested shares. Sync is even letting you know about this.

 

Why not add those two shares individually to your backup BitTorrent Sync machine?

[Connor0308]

Honestly? Because I seemingly still have to get used to this kind of sync. I thought that it might be a good idea to "collect" the data ob the server and to sync just the consolidated data - but that is isn't necessary here.

So finally, I will sync the folders individually...

Thank you for pointing me into the right direction,

br,

Connor

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[Moe]

I can definitely see why you had that thought and where it was coming from - I tried that a couple times tbh ;-)