so no sync when off-line? limits cross-time zone and multi workstation work

[jmwismer]

Hi there,
just installed and started playing a bit with Collanos. Looks just like what I was expecting, except that I was surprised that it looks like since all info is local, there is no sync if I am on-line? This basically kills it for me since I am interacting a lot with users in the U.S.  I hence do many changes, shut down, but will need them to be sync when they turn on-line. any solution for this?

Same issue for "me and me": i.e. I am working from two different places with two computers, and was hoping this would solve the sych issues I have with the two machines. But that won't work either, right?

thx a lot,
jm

[evilzenscientist]

My solution to this is to have a 'sync machine' that is on 24x7. Mine runs SUSE Linux and lives in my basement.

[Gil Heiman]

Since this is a P2P solution, both users need to be online for the sync to take place.

Work arounds, such as the one suggested by evilzenscientist above, are the best way for now to resolve this issue. However, in the near future we will be offering a service that will provide a permanent peer '24/7' so that syncs can take place around the clock.
Here at Collanos internally, we are also working across different time zones and are able to sync by leaving one of the peer computers connected at all times.

[jmwismer]

I guess the 24/7 extra "team member" is a decent work-around.

thx for the tip and looking forward to your coming soon 24/7 sync feature.

[Lenn-art]

What is the status of the 24/7 sync feature?

Would it be possible to use a ftp-host or something? Ok, then you need a whizzkid or something like that - but every group owns one 

[Gil Heiman]

The 24/7 hosted peer will be available later this year, possibly in Q2.

The current workaround of leaving a peer always online has restrictions, mainly, that content syncs only from the originating peer. Even if the server is always online, it can only send to peers the content originating from itself and NOT relay other peers' content.


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Comment from Peter Helfenstein: Above answer from Gil is obsolete since version 1.3
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Since version 1.3 Collanos support a fetch-from-any (FFA) replication. Every workspace member can be used to replicate changes from other team members to the rest of the team. Team can get updates from the rest of the team as soon as at least one team member's PC is online 24*7 or multiple team member's cover 24*7 together with some overlap time. Details can be found in the release notes of version 1.3.