[Digikam-users] Re: large picture + DB migration

[Jonas Norlander]

Hi, what I did was to first create the data base on the NAS so I had two
collection in Digikam then from within digikam copy the pictures from the
local collection to the nas. It worked for me.
/ Jonas
Den 6 jun 2011 14:31 skrev "mm Malaleel" <mathusael at yahoo.com>:
> Hello all,
>
> I would like to get advice on what is the best methodology to migrate from
my
> computer to a NAS. I'm planning to shift from SQLite to MySQL in the
process.
> This is how I would proceed:
> * backup of my current picture folders (of course)
> * copy of my pictures folders (or collections) to the NAS
> * creation of the MySQL DB within Digikam
> * migration from the current SQLite to MySQL using Digikam migration tool
> * Deletion of my computer picture collections (in Digikam)
> * Creation of the new NAS picture collections (in Digikam)
> However I'm unsure if this is the safest path/recommended methodology?
More
> specifically, how will digikam figure out that the NAS newly created
collections
> are in fact my old picture collections under a new location?
>
> My picture collection is several 100 Giga bytes large, with tagging of
pictures
> for 6 years now... so relatively sizeable thing and I don't want to loose
my
> tags. Most of them are stored within the pictures, but there are still the

> raws...
>
> Any advice would be much appreciated thank you!
> Nicolas.
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