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hsandres1

Hello everyone.
The office is migrating to everyone working remotely, but as we work with extensive data (3D stuff) is very difficult to work by VPN, and the software gets too low.
We will have two computers (each one in a different address ) and the server (in a different location too).
So the Idea is:
PC1 sync with the server (by VPN, using a mapped unit) (e.g., C:/pc1/projects <--SYNC--> //server/projects)

PC2 sync with the server (by VPN, using a mapped unit) (e.g., C:/pc2/projects <--SYNC--> //server/projects)

So when PC 1 works on a project, it will update the server, and the server will update PC 2.
And the other way too. PC 2 works on a project, will update the server, and the server will update PC 1.

Does any of this make sense? Do you think it will work?

And another point is we have 7TB of data and thousands of folders and subfolders. Does FFS handle this?

Thank you so much for your time reading this and for your help.
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Plerry

> Does any of this make sense? Do you think it will work?

Makes perfect sense, and should work using FFS.
Assuming the server is always up and running, you should run FFS on each of the PCs.
Because changes may originate on either PC, you would need to use the Two-way sync variant.

> And another point is we have 7TB of data ...

In itself, that should not be a problem for FFS.
However, with that amount of data, the Compare phase can become very long, particularly because the VPN connections will likely be remote connections.
Perhaps it is then better to split your syncs in two.
A frequent sync of the part of the data that is "work in progress"
and an infrequent sync of your total data.
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hsandres1

Thank you so much for your response!
It is great!