Hello!
I have tested out Piwigo for sometime, and it looks great! I have some questions about piwigo and backup.
I know how it feels when picture get lost duo to harddrive failure, and after that i have backup in my head all the time.
Taking backup of the database and picture is important in Piwigo. Is it possible to download or in another way copy a album of pictures to a folder on a NAS? so that you have backup of every album with Pictures in folders?
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Im thinking of albums made in Piwigo, so Virtual?
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There is this plugin
[extension by mistic100] Batch Downloader
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It should be noted that Piwigo is not an asset management software, but a web gallery.
There is no (sane) way to export your virtual albums structure to disk while keeping that structure in place (well, exporting with batch downloader album by album is a way, but I wouldn't call it sane). There is no virtual 2 physical export function for the whole thing.
That being said, you can keep a backup of your web gallery like you can do with any kind of server software (mysql dumps, filesystem copies), but it's not a real backup of your album structure. What you get in the backup is what you see on the server: an upload/ folder with yyyy/mm/dd subfolders and files with cryptic names inside.
Piwigo should be an export target for (parts of) your image collection, don't make it the source. :-)
Last edited by teekay (2018-10-20 00:12:11)
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Might want to look at how I solved this ?
https://piwigo.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=30458
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teekay wrote:
It should be noted that Piwigo is not an asset management software, but a web gallery.
I don't quite agree, maybe because the definition of a DAM (Digital Asset Manager) is a bit blurry. My current state of mind is that Piwigo is a simple featured DAM or a full featured photo gallery. DAM is just what companies use (and pay a lot of money) as a photo/video gallery. I can tell you many clients of Piwigo.com (or using Piwigo on their own server) are companies using it as a DAM.
teekay wrote:
Piwigo should be an export target for (parts of) your image collection, don't make it the source. :-)
I don't agree once again ;-) Piwigo can perfectly be the central place of your photos/videos/PDF... and you have clean backups of it (database dumps + filesystem copies)
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