[Owncloud] Fwd: Copy existing Data into OwnCloud

[Michael Grosser]

damn hate the reply to butons on the phone ;)

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From: Michael Grosser <owncloud at seetheprogress.net>
Date: Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Owncloud] Copy existing Data into OwnCloud
To: Eric Griffith <egriffith92 at gmail.com>


Just a few short answers:

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 4:55 AM, Eric Griffith <egriffith92 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hellooooo mailing list lol;
>
> I heard about the release of OwnCloud 2 a few days ago, I've been
> trying to set up a home file server for awhile and got a basic one
> setup, for internal, via Arch Linux + NFS. Saw the OwnCloud 2 release
> and it got me thinking of jumping over to that.
>
> Here's my problem. I've got about 200GB's of data already. And I
> noticed that OwnCloud uses a database to handle all the data. If I
> would copy the 200GB's of data into
> /srv/http/owncloud/data/Eric/files, would OwnCloud correctly handle it
> when I logged in next?


It would probably work fine, at least the files part.


> Or would that cause the Database's mind to just
> explode because I didnt add the data to OwnCloud via the "Upload"
> Button? Some of its Music as well, so a lot of folders would also be
> created.
>

The part where the database might explode would be the scanning of the new
music files, perhaps you would need to ramp up the max execution time of
your php scripts.


> The other question is...how do you add music into the Music tab? I
> hadn't tried yet via upload (under Files) because I dont have any
> music under 2MB's, and I didnt see any Upload button under the Music
> Tab so I was a little confused.
>

The music files in the files folder will be scanned and added automaticly to
the music tab.

>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated! The project looks amazing and
> I'm actually sad that I didnt hear about this project until version 2
> hit. Version 1 wouldve been nice to check out as it was being made
> better.
>
> --Eric--
>

Hope I could help you a bit, sorry for the short answers, but I'm on the go
right now.
Have fun using owncloud so.

Michael

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