[Leica] Questions about using NAS with LR

[Aram Langhans]

Agree.  I tried this for a friend.  He had his photos on a portable NAS 
drive and wanted to work on them both on his desktop and his laptop, so 
set the catalog to update from each to the portable drive so when he 
turned either of his computers on it should have synced the local 
catalog from the NAS drive.  Worked most of the time but if he did not 
allow enough time for the catalog to  sync before turning off his 
computer it was a mess.

On 10/6/2021 9:53 PM, Spencer Cheng wrote:
> The synchronization of multiple master copy problem can be solved in specific cases but not recommended for general use. I concur with Brian. Don’t do it.
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> Why? Because you have do do active bi-directional synchronization between all the local master copies on each computer plus your NAS. If these bi-directional synchronization fails (H/W or S/W) while in progress, it will be messy to recover from.
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> Spencer
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>> On Oct 5, 2021, at 18:53, Frank Filippone via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> I have no idea of how to implement this, and I am hoping someone can help me.....
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>> My questions are:
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>> Where and what is the backup command?  Is this done through the OS commands or is there a special (Synology) command?
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>> How to set this for an immediate backup?
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>> How to set this so that you either less often or on demand set the backup of the image files to the NAS?
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>> It would have helped if I could find the article, but alas, that route has left the building.
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>> .  Thank you
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>> Frank Filippone
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