How to use MS onedrive for business to sync folder between H.O. and remote server

To Setup One Drive for Business, You can check below link
https://support.office.com/en-in/article/Sync-OneDrive-for-Business-or-site-libraries-to-your-computer-23e1f12b-d896-4cb1-a238-f91d19827a16?ui=en-US&rs=en-IN&ad=IN
To don't sync directly on laptop, you will need to deploy one drive on Server only.
Yes, you will need to buy one Drive for each server, if you want different\separate account of one drive per server. you will need  OneDrive for Business which exist on OfficeProPlus or office 365 plans. For more info. about Office plans, you can contact customer services of office 365.

You cant. The OneDrive sync client only works with SharePoint. I guess you can upload those files to SPO and then sync them down to the other server, but you need to have some things in mind. First of all, there are number of limitations on the file size, number of files, names, etc that you will have to respect. Next, the sync client itself is not really reliable and Microsoft has well acknowledged that. Also, you can easily end up overwritting those files.

Why dont you use BranchCache or similar solution instead?

If you have an Office365 account, this can be done.  The earlier comment is correct in part when it mentions SharePoint.  Install OneDrive for business on the server and on the other PC.  Log in to the same Office365 account and set the synch for the shared folder(s).  

This will synch all three locations - server, OneDrive Office365 (cloud), and PC.  Work local - which means - open and save the files from the local folders to each device.  As a bonus, the user logged on to the Office365 account can work with the files in the internet browser connection.

This can also be done with OneDrive for Outlook.com accounts.  The app is simply OneDrive and not OneDrive for Business.

Thanks Richard :)

Next question. Having done this I cannot get it to upload whole folders from the server to either onedrive OR sharepoint for that matter.

There is no way I can do this manually as there are literally hundreds of subfolders within the folders I need to sync

Help!

tracyprier, please remember that when this is established, you work locally and store globally.
Where are the files to be synched?  They should be on the local server or a local laptop.
Then, drag and drop the folders locally to the OneDrive local folders.  OneDrive will synch the files to 'the cloud' and, then, to the other local OneDrive folders.  
Sounds like you have the installation.  You need to learn the operation.

Ok, I have been reading up on this but I am a bit stuck.

Most instructions on the net deal with using files directly from the local folder that onedrive bus places them in on the local disk.

My situation is that this is a replacement scheme for something that is already in place.

I already have a folder structure on the remote china PC and am syncing between them and the root shared folders on our server here.

I need to be able to set up 1drive/sharepoint so that it is syncing directly between the local folders on our file server and the "mirrored" subset of folders on the China PC.

How do I do this??

thanks
Tracy

Tracy,
The setup discussed in this thread assumes you are using the Office 365 and OneDrive for business.  Therefore, a full copy of files are uploaded to the Office365 OneDrive accounts that are stored in the Internet.
A copy is then synched to both locations.  The Internet folders manage the synching, but also store a copy of the files.
Working with the files can, then, be done locally on either computer OR via a browser logged into the OneDrive files on the Internet.

Hi Richard.

Yes I understand that. Sorry I probably didn't phrase my question right.

"but also store a copy of the files."

Its this bit. Is it possible to have these point directly to the existing folder on the PC/server rather than being a separate folder on the pc?

Basically I am wanting to get onedrive to be syncing to/from the server shared folders directly.

thanks
Tracy