I am having looking for a solution / best practice.
I have set up my sync store via WebDAV on my Synology. It works fine, but I am not sure that I have done it correctly.
What I have done at this point is created a separate sync store for each of my several database.
However, I have noted that every database seems to be “available” in every sync store.
For example, suppose I have three databases, called (creatively) A, B, and C.
I create a sync store called “A-sync”. The sync setup process allows me to select which database to sync in A-sync, and naturally, I select only database A. I do the same for B-sync and C-sync, syncing B and C respectively.
Now, if I go to a second Mac and connect to A-sync, I have given the option of syncing remote databases A, B, and C. Since I had only sync’d A into A-sync, I would not expect B or C to also be available - and if I selected them, what we be getting sync’d since the databases on the first machine aren’t being sent to A-sync?
So my questions are:
a) Why do databases that I did not actually select to sync to A-sync appear available to other Macs when I connect them to A-sync? What happens if I select them on the second Mac to sync?
b) What is actually the best practice? Should I just create one sync store and sync all databases (and the global Inbox) to that, or is there a real or practical advantage to having a separate sync store for each database? (Note that the sync stores are all in the same location, on the Synology. Obviously I would have separate sync stores if I wanted each database to have its sync store in a different place.) It is certainly a lot more work to maintain a separate WebDAV connection for each database, but once it is set up it’s not a big deal, but as I add new databases it would be a lot easier to add them to the sync process if I had only one WebDAV connection to update.
Thanks!