I want to put photos on a server and then see them and maintained by another computer

[Info.RDPA]

Hello, have just become a Linux user (UbuntuStudio 8.04) and my passion is photography and graphics.
I have an archive of approximately 230,000 photographs and I will manage. Digikam I have identified as the best program to do this.
After reading the FAQ on your site without finding a clear answer to my problem, I ask myself the question directly:
I want to put photos on a server (which will be backed up) and then see them and maintained by another computer (mainly from my notebook). Important is the aspect of being able to search the entire archive and it can also manage the notebook even if not connected to the server (ie offline).
This is possible with digikam? How? Which version?
Thanks
Redi

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[Leslie Harlley Watter-2]

Hi Redi,

>) Hello, have just become a Linux user (UbuntuStudio 8.04) and my passion is
>) photography and graphics.
>) I have an archive of approximately 230,000 photographs and I will manage.
>) Digikam I have identified as the best program to do this.
>) After reading the FAQ on your site without finding a clear answer to my
>) problem, I ask myself the question directly:
>) I want to put photos on a server (which will be backed up) and then see them
>) and maintained by another computer (mainly from my notebook). Important is the
>) aspect of being able to search the entire archive and it can also manage the
>) notebook even if not connected to the server (ie offline).
>) This is possible with digikam? How? Which version?

Yes, you can. You can put your entire collection on an network volume and
access it via NFS or Samba.

In Digikam  you just put you collection under the Settings -> Configure
Digikam -> Connection on Network Shares. I'm using digikam compiled from source,
but as far as I can remember, since version 1.0.0 you can use this option.

Beware that your bottleneck will be your network, so you'll probably have a low
startup of a big album.

Cheers,

Leslie

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Le 05/04/2010 17:20, Info.RDPA a écrit :

> Hello, have just become a Linux user (UbuntuStudio 8.04) and my passion
> is photography and graphics.
> I have an archive of approximately 230,000 photographs and I will
> manage. Digikam I have identified as the best program to do this.
> After reading the FAQ on your site without finding a clear answer to my
> problem, I ask myself the question directly:
> I want to put photos on a server (which will be backed up) and then see
> them and maintained by another computer (mainly from my notebook).
> Important is the aspect of being able to search the entire archive and
> it can also manage the notebook even if not connected to the server (ie
> offline).
> This is possible with digikam? How? Which version?
> Thanks
> Redi

best way: run digikam on the server and connect with freenx

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[Martin (KDE)]

Info.RDPA schrieb:

> Hello, have just become a Linux user (UbuntuStudio 8.04) and my
> passion is photography and graphics.
> I have an archive of approximately 230,000 photographs and I will
> manage. Digikam I have identified as the best program to do this.
> After reading the FAQ on your site without finding a clear answer to
> my problem, I ask myself the question directly:
> I want to put photos on a server (which will be backed up) and then
> see them and maintained by another computer (mainly from my notebook).
> Important is the aspect of being able to search the entire archive and
> it can also manage the notebook even if not connected to the server
> (ie offline).

You need a synchonization script which checks at every login if the
server is available. If so sync all data from server to client. At
logout time you have to do the other way around. This way you have an
actual copy on your server and your client. Problems will occur, if you
change the same foto offline and on the server.

Other possible way: Use a repository server like GIT or SVN. This way
you get a revision and history of changes as addon.

Martin

> This is possible with digikam? How? Which version?
> Thanks
> Redi
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[Gilles Caulier-4]

Note : with current implementation from svn (digiKam 1.3.0), you can
use Mysql database now instead SQLite, and especially a remote server
:

http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/509

Gilles Caulier

2010/4/5 Leslie Harlley Watter <[hidden email]>:

> Hi Redi,
>>) Hello, have just become a Linux user (UbuntuStudio 8.04) and my passion is
>>) photography and graphics.
>>) I have an archive of approximately 230,000 photographs and I will manage.
>>) Digikam I have identified as the best program to do this.
>>) After reading the FAQ on your site without finding a clear answer to my
>>) problem, I ask myself the question directly:
>>) I want to put photos on a server (which will be backed up) and then see them
>>) and maintained by another computer (mainly from my notebook). Important is the
>>) aspect of being able to search the entire archive and it can also manage the
>>) notebook even if not connected to the server (ie offline).
>>) This is possible with digikam? How? Which version?
>
> Yes, you can. You can put your entire collection on an network volume and
> access it via NFS or Samba.
>
> In Digikam  you just put you collection under the Settings -> Configure
> Digikam -> Connection on Network Shares. I'm using digikam compiled from source,
> but as far as I can remember, since version 1.0.0 you can use this option.
>
> Beware that your bottleneck will be your network, so you'll probably have a low
> startup of a big album.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Leslie
>
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> Leslie H. Watter
> "Wolves never look back", he whispered.
>   Captain Carrot -- The Fifth Elephant
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