[digiKam-users] migrating to internal MySQL

[Gilles Caulier]

Did you read the basis from
https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/extragear-graphics/digikam/using-setup.html#using-setup-database

Best

Gilles Caulier

2018-07-04 13:00 GMT+02:00 karsten_df <karsten.defreese at posteo.de>:

> I'm currently using digikam with an external MySQL server located on a
> small
> & not so powerful server in my network, For performance reasons, I'd like
> to
> test the configuration with an internal MySQL Server, but I'm finding
> little
> information how it works.
> I had thought the internal MySQL server would work somehow like this
> - I'd set up e.g. a mariadb server on the PC on the PC digikam is running
> at
> - I'd create the three databases (core, thumbs, faces),
>   and populate them with a dump I made on the server
> - I'd enter the details of the co-located server into digikam's setup
>
> However, the dialog for using an internal MySQL db looks much different to
> the external one -
> no way to enter db names, user/password, etc. Seems that digikam wants to
> configure the databases itself, resp. digikam has a built-in MySQL server?
>
> Is there some more information how this works, especially in a case where
> existing databases need to be migrated?
> (I've also looked at the Migration dialog, but before trying this I'd like
> to better understand the background :-)
>
>
>
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