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smokinjo · 2024-08-16 02:47:29

Hello/Hi/Greetings,

I am trying t find a way to set up my TruNAS as my external storage.

Where do I tell Piwigo that I want t point storage at my trunas?

How to I tel piwigo to log into my NAS to use my designated folder?

Thanks

Joseph

windracer · 2024-08-17 03:07:39

Some other threads on a similar subject:

https://piwigo.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=33807

https://piwigo.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=33122

What I do is use symlinks in the Piwigo folder structure out to the folders/shares on my NAS.

smokinjo · 2024-08-17 15:00:21

Helo,

I was looking over the posts that you mentioned, and read a few others.

SymLInks seems like a good option.

I was looking over my piwigo folder.

I am not sure which folders to move to my NAS? Partially because I do nto know what they all do. The ones that seem like the right ones are:
_data
galeries
uplaods

Can some one explain what each is for? Then I might know if I would want to back them up.

Thanks

Joseph

windracer · 2024-08-17 17:11:36

_data is where things like the cache, thumbnails, etc. are stored

upload is where images go if you use the normal add photos/upload process to add photos to your gallery (virtual albums)

galleries is where images go if you use FTP synchronization (physical albums)

I symlink all three out to my NAS (even though I don't use uploads because I use only physical albums).

Last edited by windracer (2024-08-17 17:12:05)

smokinjo · 2024-08-17 18:31:55

Thanks for your comments.

Are there other folders that would be good to move to NAS? Meaning, I am trying to keep the web server from filling up with files and filling up all the time.

Thanks

Joseph

windracer · 2024-08-18 16:15:21

I only symlink out those three folders since that's the bulk of the storage (images and their thumbnails). I'm sure you can symlink out others, just not sure if there's a benefit to them.

raupie · 2024-09-02 02:04:38

You don't want too many folders running over network storage which is how many of us trueNAS users setup our drives. It would be more performant to leave as much as you can not shared. The symlink for the galleries is pretty much all you really need.

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