In the middle of assisting a 15 person creative branding firm in the US to revamp their network infrastructure and speed up workflow. As with any creative studio they have large files for projects. They are in the process of moving everyone from remote work back to the office. While everyone was working remotely they used Dropbox to sync, share and collaborate and plan to continue the use for the foreseeable future. The employees use individual folders with subfolders and use Teams feature minimally.
My plans were to have each Mac Studio sync to the share Synology NAS Dropbox Folder using the Synology Sync App running on the Mac and then Cloudsync on the NAS to synchronize with Dropbox. This would allow each user to sync to the NAS locally and still update the Dropbox in the cloud for user to access when traveling or the occasional work from home usage. Each user is attached via a gigabit link, the NAS is attached via 10 gigabit link. The WAN link is currently an asymmetric business cable service with 500 mb/s down and 50 mb/s upload (that will change when they move to a new facility in four months)
Currently 14 of the employees are now back in the office, each user has an individual Dropbox seat license and app installed. That means that 14 users are syncing back to Dropbox Cloud which I would think would be slower due to WAN vs. LAN speeds. There is also the inefficiency of 14 individual Dropbox accounts each syncing independently to the Cloud.
My concern is comments in the Dropbox Community about synchronization issues, specifically that the Synology Sync App is not reliable. And of course issues that I am not aware of since I do not consider myself a Mac expert ;> I had also hoped to use SMB Time Machine backup to the NAS but have decided against that due to many reports of bad backups and unreliable restores.
Would love to hear from anyone who had implemented or attempted to implement anything similar.
My plans were to have each Mac Studio sync to the share Synology NAS Dropbox Folder using the Synology Sync App running on the Mac and then Cloudsync on the NAS to synchronize with Dropbox. This would allow each user to sync to the NAS locally and still update the Dropbox in the cloud for user to access when traveling or the occasional work from home usage. Each user is attached via a gigabit link, the NAS is attached via 10 gigabit link. The WAN link is currently an asymmetric business cable service with 500 mb/s down and 50 mb/s upload (that will change when they move to a new facility in four months)
Currently 14 of the employees are now back in the office, each user has an individual Dropbox seat license and app installed. That means that 14 users are syncing back to Dropbox Cloud which I would think would be slower due to WAN vs. LAN speeds. There is also the inefficiency of 14 individual Dropbox accounts each syncing independently to the Cloud.
My concern is comments in the Dropbox Community about synchronization issues, specifically that the Synology Sync App is not reliable. And of course issues that I am not aware of since I do not consider myself a Mac expert ;> I had also hoped to use SMB Time Machine backup to the NAS but have decided against that due to many reports of bad backups and unreliable restores.
Would love to hear from anyone who had implemented or attempted to implement anything similar.
