[Digikam-users] I want to put photos on a server and then see them and maintained by another computer

[Martin (KDE)]

Am Dienstag, 6. April 2010 schrieb Peter Shute:
> What will happen if the user starts DigiKam when the server is
> offline?

It is the wrong way of thinking. If this is a regular scenario 
(net-/notebook) and you can or will not use vpn you have to use a 
synchronizing mechanism (like unison or rsync). all those server side 
stuff does not make is easier.

Set up a sync at login and logoff if you are connected to your server. 
Only the newer files will get synced. This will slow down your 
login/logoff time, but this is the only way to get all fotos and the 
database up to date even if you are offline. Windows Pro btw has it 
build in and it is time for linux (or KDE) to get something similar.

For example: sync your home drive and your main foto drive via rsync 
from the server at login and sync it back to the server at logout 
makes your foto editing much faster and you are independent from the 
server in between. And your digikam database will not get corrupt if 
your NFS server fails during runtime of digikam.

Martin

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with
> the power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org> Sent: Wed Apr 07
> 03:21:28 2010
> Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] I want to put photos on a server and
> then see	them and maintained by another computer
> 
> Note : with current implementation from svn (digiKam 1.3.0), you
> can use Mysql database now instead SQLite, and especially a remote
> server
> 
> 
> http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/509
> 
> Gilles Caulier
> 
> 2010/4/5 Leslie Harlley Watter <leslie at watter.org>:
> > Hi Redi,
> > 
> >>) Hello, have just become a Linux user (UbuntuStudio 8.04) and my
> >>passion is ) photography and graphics.
> >>) I have an archive of approximately 230,000 photographs and I
> >>will manage. ) Digikam I have identified as the best program to
> >>do this. ) After reading the FAQ on your site without finding a
> >>clear answer to my ) problem, I ask myself the question
> >>directly:
> >>) I want to put photos on a server (which will be backed up) and
> >>then see them ) and maintained by another computer (mainly from
> >>my notebook). Important is the ) aspect of being able to search
> >>the entire archive and it can also manage the ) notebook even if
> >>not connected to the server (ie offline). ) This is possible
> >>with digikam? How? Which version?
> >>
> > Yes, you can. You can put your entire collection on an network
> > volume and access it via NFS or Samba.
> > 
> > In Digikam  you just put you collection under the Settings ->
> > Configure Digikam -> Connection on Network Shares. I'm using
> > digikam compiled from source, but as far as I can remember,
> > since version 1.0.0 you can use this option.
> > 
> > Beware that your bottleneck will be your network, so you'll
> > probably have a low startup of a big album.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Leslie
> > 
> > --
> > Leslie H. Watter
> > "Wolves never look back", he whispered.
> >   Captain Carrot -- The Fifth Elephant
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