I have a local photo library

I use with Photoshop Elements to browse etc

I attempted to locate the library on an unraid share, but  it just doesn't play well when remotely accessing the files from the server.

At the moment i have a USB HDD back up running, but have always wanted to get this backed up to my Unraid server, with further parity redundancy. 

 

What is recommended?

Effectively, all I need is an application to check from changes on a networked PC, and sync/copy changes to an unraid share. 

Is there a best practices way to do this, and/or a tutorial?

 

I haven't been able to find a simple solution, but I have to believe there is something available.

Thanks in advance!

 

 

Edited November 12, 20214 yr by strykn

I'd love to insert me into this topic. I'm trying to make a change, substituting an old Qnap NAS with a different solution. I'm reading about Unraid, and hopefully could be a great choice.

However, there's a single thing that I really need to be sure to have (or to emulate quite well): something similar to their QSync application. In short, it synchronizes (in almost real-time) all/some folder between the NAS and the client PC (so I see them as local folders and files); also, a very useful behavior (similar to the new OneDrive / Google Drive app installed on the client) is that I can sync all my 10Tb of data to my client PC, even in the PC I just have a 256Gb SSD, 'cause the folders and files are visible, but not physically occupying my local SSD until I click on them the first time; the application make a sort of transparent on demand "download", and now that file is actually even in the SSD. If I create new files in those folders, obviously I create them both in my SSD and in the NAS (it sync them as soon as possible, almost in real-time).

 

Ok, I hope I was pretty clear in the exposition, and I hope you expert Unraid guys can suggest me if there's some combination of Unraid App + client app to emulate that QSync.

 

Edited December 3, 20214 yr by Andrea P.

On 11/11/2021 at 10:04 PM, strykn said:

I have a local photo library

I use with Photoshop Elements to browse etc

I attempted to locate the library on an unraid share, but  it just doesn't play well when remotely accessing the files from the server.

At the moment i have a USB HDD back up running, but have always wanted to get this backed up to my Unraid server, with further parity redundancy. 

 

What is recommended?

Effectively, all I need is an application to check from changes on a networked PC, and sync/copy changes to an unraid share. 

Is there a best practices way to do this, and/or a tutorial?

 

I haven't been able to find a simple solution, but I have to believe there is something available.

Thanks in advance!

 

 

 

I sync all my photos with UNRAID using syncthing. There's a docker image for it.