[Leica] Questions about using NAS with LR

[Philippe]

Sorry for hijacking Frank's thread a bit ...

I also have a sinology device (DS220+) that I use for time machine by wi-fi. My catalogs are saved as a result. Not, if I’m not mistaken, the original files which I keep on an external HD. So I sometimes plug that HD onto the sinology via USB and save the latest original files as a backup, just in case. I guess if something happened to the Mac, I’d be able to reconnect the restored Mac content (here LR and catalogs) to the files either from the HD, or from the sinology backup in case the external HD had failed ( too ). I presume the edits are somewhere between here and there preserved on the Adobe cloud. 

Note that I’m using one single computer for photo editing, so the problem might be different (re)synchronising several computers.

Brian please, tell me where I’m wrong, if I am.

Amities

Yellow belt Philippe, trying to make progress :-)




> Le 6 oct. 2021 à 01:10, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> a écrit :
> 
> Don't do it. LR has good reasons for requiring the catalog to be local, and unless you have a black belt in computer and network wrangling, you won't be able to dig yourself out of the mess made when something goes wrong. I've tried it, and decided it was too risky. And it was a lot of work to clean up the destruction when it failed.
> 
> 
> On 2021-10-05 15:53, Frank Filippone via LUG wrote:
>> I read somewhere that to use LR Classic with a (Synology) NAS you can
>> place your images on the NAS  then place the catalog on your local
>> computer.   Apparently LR requires the catalog to be local, and not on
>> the NAS.
>> When you have more than 1 computer, this article said to copy the
>> catalog to each computer you have, and then to BACKUP ACTIVELY ( as in
>> any changes are also made immediately) .. maybe some other words were
>> used.....  the catalogs onto the NAS and synch the catalogs o all the
>> computers to this file.
>> I have no idea of how to implement this, and I am hoping someone can
>> help me.....
>> My questions are:
>> Where and what is the backup command?  Is this done through the OS
>> commands or is there a special (Synology) command?
>> How to set this for an immediate backup?
>> How to set this so that you either less often or on demand set the
>> backup of the image files to the NAS?
>> It would have helped if I could find the article, but alas, that route
>> has left the building.
>> .  Thank you
>> -
>> Frank Filippone
>> BMWRed735i at gmail.com
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