Image storage between SQL CE and SQL Server

Hi All,

I am about to embark on a mission of utmost importance.  The company I work for employs contractors to perform audits on site (with no internet or phone reception) and these auditors currently have SQL CE installed, which is replicated to SQL Server 2012 with merge replication.

My task is to store images on the CE machines and replicate them back to home.

Having little knowledge about replication or CE, I ask for advice on the best approach.

So far I have looked at using an 'Image' data type, however these will soon be deprecated in SQL Server, and a VarBinary(MAX) will only store up to 8000bytes on CE.

Does anyone have experience with this situation?

Thanks in advance!