[[!comment format=mdwn username="joey" subject="""comment 1""" date="2015-02-27T18:51:52Z" content=""" Well, it depends on how big the files are, but taking a few hours to sync might indicate that your repositories are not immediately notifying one-another of changes. It might be falling back to polling every half an hour for new changes. You could fix that by setting up XMPP, or better, by installing git-annex 5.20140421 or newer on the SSH server; then the clients would immediately notify when there are changes. You can find out if all files are present on the server by running `git annex find --not --in $server` on one of the clients. Any files it prints out have not been stored in the server. """]]