Archive photos to DVD

[peter teuben]

Apart from archiving, I keep a small directory tree of ALL pictures, 
downsized to 1024 typically, on the laptop or desktop. Small and easy to 
re-sync to another machine.

  It has all the tags and captions I need to search, and once I found a 
few for whatever purpose, either those are enough, or I'll have to dig 
through the DVDs.

There's pretty good software around to archive DVD collections, though I 
still use good old updatedb, the one that the locate command works on 
your local disk. I then have a blocate script that tells me on which 
disk/DVD those files are, that's a simple script looping over all *db 
files.   Here's the writeup and some code what I've been doing for the 
past 10+ years: https://github.com/teuben/teunix/tree/master/Backup

On 2/22/24 20:43, Mark wrote:
> I am on Ubuntu 22.04 with DigiKam 7.5.0  and Windows with Digikam 8.2.0.
>
> It seems that there used to be a built-in tool for archiving photos to 
> DVD but I cannot seem to find it. Does it still exist? If not, what 
> are others doing? On Ubuntu I did install the k3b disk burning package.
>
> My planned workflow: Eventually hard disks fill and files can be moved 
> off for long term storage. Would want Digikam to know the DVD disk 
> name and store that so that I can readily access those files later. 
> Since the image files have been burned to one or more disks (of the 
> same name) they can then be deleted from the hard drive to make room 
> for more.
>
> All help / ideas appreciated! Am new to Digikam but used Canto DAM for 
> many years before they sold the particular product to another who 
> later went belly up, permanently ending support!
>
> Mark
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