[Digikam-devel] [Bug 224312] needs a database archive/backup/restore facility

[Rafael Rios]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224312





--- Comment #9 from Rafael Rios <rsaavedra ono com>  2010-06-10 18:43:48 ---
Well, here I go, (you warned this is a long post writed and english is not my
mother language :) )

User cases


Case (1):
 In my case, I have 2 USB HDDs, one at home (HDD_A) and the other in my parents
home (HDD_2). HDD_2 is the backup. In the HDDs I have the pictures and the
digikam's databases.
 I always download pictures from the camera to HDD_A.
 I would like to have them synchronized, by now, from time to time, I connect
both HDDs to my laptop and rsync from HDD_A to HDD_B.
 It would be nice if I could export pictures and info about the lastest load of
pictures in digikam, for example packaging pictures files and DB, and them
importing them into HDD_2.

  Summarizing: I would be nice to have a way of keeping sync diferents storages
with the respectives DBs.

Case (2):
  I friend of mine, don't use digikam, he uses and tree structure in disk and
backups copies on DVDs.
  He does the copies on DVDs overlaping the files from DVD to DVD, so a picture
is always at least in 2 o 3 (I can't remember now) discs.
  This gave me the idea of digikam generating k3b project files, so in a DVD
could be the pictures and a "mini" database with the info about pictures. 
  This way, you could retrieve the part of your collection that is corrupted or
using all the DVDs to restore the complete collection.

  I think that for this, in digikam you could track where are the backup(s) of
a particular picture, and when was done. Digikam could also alert the user to
make a new backup following a backup politic.

  Summarizing: "Export" pictures+db to discs, and keeping track of where and
when the pictures and info where backed up.