Re: Hello from Strasbourg, France and request concerning multiple NAS shares ;-)

[Mica Semrick]

Hi!

I think you need to revisit your backup strategy. If your backup strategy relies on you knowing what you've modified, you're doing it wrong. If you backup by hand your directories of the year, you're doing it wrong.

All of the backup tools I'm aware of look at what has changed on your backup data set and are capable of making a differential backup.

You should have a look at restic, Borg, bup, rsnapshot, or if you want a very mac-centric solution, Arq.

If you don't want to do that, then mount all your shares into one directory via smb/nfs and have digikam look at that single directory as the root.

-mica

On July 25, 2023 7:27:25 AM PDT, bfrantz free <bfrantz at free.fr> wrote:
>Hi all peoples there, thanks for reading & helping
>
>I just downloaded digikam, read the documentation and tried it, but it seems to me it does not address the reason why a wanted to switch from MACOS PHOTOS:
>My problem is I have all our pictures stored on a LACIE BIG 2 NAS, Raid 1. They are organized by year of taking, with a specfic share for each year from 2000 to now, yes 23 shares…
>We own two MacBooks running Ventura, and we would like to be both able to access our pictures, which is impossible with MacOS Photos :-(
>
>I could easily configure digikam to access one share, but could not find any way to switch to another. Has anybody any clue? Or is it necessary to group all our picture in a single share ?
>I don’t really like this option, becaus it would be huge and difficult to backup: With different shares per year, I only need to backup the ones which I create/modify. If I have only one, I need to backup it ideally on each modification.
>
>Otherwise digikam seems pretty good, especially for the price ;-)
>
>thanks again for helping
>Franyz
>
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