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+[[!comment format=mdwn
+ username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawmkXtBdMgE1d9nCz2iBc4f85xh4izZ_auU"
+ nickname="Ulrich"
+ subject="Using a portable drive as another transfer device?"
+ date="2013-11-12T16:52:12Z"
+ content="""
+I try to understand how to setup git-annex for the following use case:
+
+Two computers, that are paired via remote sharing, using some cloud repository for transfer, and a local NAS for backups.
+
+These two computers are sometimes in the same network, sometimes in different networks, and sometimes even without network at all. From what I read, it should be possible to bypass the cloud when these two machines are on the same network, which sounds great.
+
+Would it be possible to use a portable drive as \"another link\" between these two computers that can be used to sync them even if there is no network between them?
+
+And as you write, if the pairing has been set up manually, then everything is fine - so could it be that it is really easy and only necessary to setup the git-annex on the local drive as an additional remote on both (or only one?) machine?
+
+thanks for any insight!
+"""]]