[digiKam-users] Moving photos and database to cloud

[Jay-2]

Greetings,

Linux Mint with 6.4.0 Appimage, I have my photos (230GB) and database files on one hard drive. I would like to MOVE the photos and database files to the cloud (pCloud specifically) but am concerned that I might lose 20 years worth of tags or other photo information.

Any suggestion for the best way to move everything to the cloud? It seems like I could copy everything there, including the database files, start digikam and point it to the cloud folder. /home/jay/pictures ---> /home/jay/pCloudDrive/pictures . Could it be that simple?

Thank you and best wishes,

Jay Rutherford

[JayRutherford]

Sorry. This has been dealt with and is a duplicate post.

Jay

On Wed, May 13, 2020, at 09:48, Jay wrote:

Greetings,

Linux Mint with 6.4.0 Appimage, I have my photos (230GB) and database files on one hard drive. I would like to MOVE the photos and database files to the cloud (pCloud specifically) but am concerned that I might lose 20 years worth of tags or other photo information.

Any suggestion for the best way to move everything to the cloud? It seems like I could copy everything there, including the database files, start digikam and point it to the cloud folder. /home/jay/pictures ---> /home/jay/pCloudDrive/pictures . Could it be that simple?

Thank you and best wishes,

Jay Rutherford

[Andrew Goodbody]

On 13/05/2020 14:48, Jay wrote:
> Any suggestion for the best way to move everything to the cloud? It
> seems like I could copy everything there, including the database files,
> start digikam and point it to the cloud folder. /home/jay/pictures --->
> /home/jay/pCloudDrive/pictures . Could it be that simple?

Do please note that using a sqlite database on a remote drive is
specifically warned against. This sort of configuration is extremely
vulnerable to network issues and that could easily lead to database
corruption. It is not supported by the developers and you would be
completely on your own if you choose to do it despite their warnings.

Andrew

[JayRutherford]

Thank you, Andrew. In digikam I have added a new collection on the cloud drive, which digikam recognizes as a local hard drive. I can do everything there that I can on my main hard drive. After doing some testing on the laptop with a disposable set of albums, I have successfully migrated the photos and database files to the cloud drive and things are normal as far as I can tell.

I do take your advice to heart, though, and am still exploring how everything fits together. Thanks.

Jay

On Thu, May 14, 2020, at 16:35, Andrew Goodbody wrote:

> On 13/05/2020 14:48, Jay wrote:
> > Any suggestion for the best way to move everything to the cloud? It
> > seems like I could copy everything there, including the database files,
> > start digikam and point it to the cloud folder. /home/jay/pictures --->
> > /home/jay/pCloudDrive/pictures . Could it be that simple?
>
> Do please note that using a sqlite database on a remote drive is
> specifically warned against. This sort of configuration is extremely
> vulnerable to network issues and that could easily lead to database
> corruption. It is not supported by the developers and you would be
> completely on your own if you choose to do it despite their warnings.
>
> Andrew
>