Questions regarding way to sync two identities in one location

[Ronan]

Hello,

I'm planning to use sync pro to sync, backup and share my data with my friends and family but I have some questions regarding the feasibility of some of the things I plan to do.

Here is the context:

I got two locations (let's call them A and B) with each their set of devices (desktops, tablet, smartphone, NAS).

I want each device in a location synced together (partially for the tablet/smarpthone). I believe this can attained with an identity and the linked devices feature of Resilio sync. I would have then two identities, A and B.

Now one location, A, has an optical fiber link that allows to sync/share things fast over internet while the other has a mere DSL connection so I was wondering if there was a way to also sync the data from identity B in location A without making all data from B available to A.

Here are the possibities I can think about to solve this:
- Sharing the folders from identity B in identity A NAS device but wouldn't this make the folder available to all the other devices of identity A?
- Having two identities running from the location A NAS. Is it possible? Maybe with a container (the NAS is a QNAP HS-251+)?
- Running sync from another device (e.g. a raspberry)? Could be cumbersome if I want to sync more identities.

Thanks for your insight!

Ronan

[Helen]

On 4/22/2017 at 0:54 PM, Ronan said:

Sharing the folders from identity B in identity A NAS device but wouldn't this make the folder available to all the other devices of identity A?

it would. That's the idea of linked devices: you add folder on one of them - all others linked to the identity get access to it. You can link them in Disconnected mode so that folders will appear as "disconnected" on other devices and at least won't be syncing unless you pick to connect them 

On 4/22/2017 at 0:54 PM, Ronan said:

Having two identities running from the location A NAS. Is it possible? Maybe with a container (the NAS is a QNAP HS-251+)?

Possible, but not our of the box. You will need ssh to your NAS, download the binary and launch it manually, like on a regular Linux machine (guide). So basically you will have two Sync processes. But they won't be able to sync the same folder on this NAS. 

On 4/22/2017 at 0:54 PM, Ronan said:

Running sync from another device (e.g. a raspberry)? Could be cumbersome if I want to sync more identities.

not sure I understand. The correct designed way is to have  one Sync instance per device, identity per Sync, each Sync instance syncing a given directory

[Ronan]

Hello Helen,

On 27/04/2017 at 10:57 AM, Helen said:

Possible, but not our of the box. You will need ssh to your NAS, download the binary and launch it manually, like on a regular Linux machine (guide). So basically you will have two Sync processes. But they won't be able to sync the same folder on this NAS.

Nice!

The idea is to make each sync instance/identity on the NAS points towards the related user home directory so it should work. I will give it a try

On 27/04/2017 at 10:57 AM, Helen said:

not sure I understand. The correct designed way is to have  one Sync instance per device, identity per Sync, each Sync instance syncing a given directory

Granted for the one identity per device but I wanted to avoid to have one hardware per additional user in location A to have each identity store their data on the NAS. Using a container that acts as another device while running on the NAS will be perfect in that regard.

Thanks for your answer!