Re: [darktable-user] backup advice needed

2018-12-26 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Wed, 26 Dec 2018 10:27:07 -0800 "I. Ivanov" wrote: > > Yes - I use rsync. Maybe I can mirror the complete structure taking > only the XMP files. There are a few items now that I can investigate. > A combination of --exclude --include like rsync --archive --prune-empty-dirs --include="*/"

Re: [darktable-user] backup advice needed

2018-12-26 Thread I. Ivanov
On 2018-12-26 01:39, ternaryd wrote: On Wed, 26 Dec 2018 00:45:46 -0800 "I. Ivanov" wrote: The challenge I am facing with XMP as a primary is that when changes are done across multiple folders (in my case I removed description in 3-4 folders - modified about 600 files out of few thousand

Re: [darktable-user] backup advice needed

2018-12-26 Thread ternaryd
On Wed, 26 Dec 2018 00:45:46 -0800 "I. Ivanov" wrote: > The challenge I am facing with XMP as a > primary is that when changes are done across > multiple folders (in my case I removed > description in 3-4 folders - modified about > 600 files out of few thousand affected) I > didn't find a good

Re: [darktable-user] backup advice needed

2018-12-26 Thread I. Ivanov
On 2018-12-25 08:34, dt-l...@stefan-klinger.de wrote: According to a message by one of the developers that appeared on this list some time ago (sorry, cant' find it now) the XMP files should be considered primary. So backup the XMP files, rather than the database. Note, however, that the

Re: [darktable-user] backup advice needed

2018-12-24 Thread I. Ivanov
On 2018-12-24 01:06, Bernhard wrote: There is an option in darktable that will help you with this: look for updated xmp files on startup Check file modification times of all XMP files on startup to find out if any got updated in the meantime by some other software. If updated

Re: [darktable-user] backup advice needed

2018-12-24 Thread Bernhard
There is an option in darktable that will help you with this: look for updated xmp files on startup Check file modification times of all XMP files on startup to find out if any got updated in the meantime by some other software. If updated XMP files are found a menu opens for the

Re: [darktable-user] backup advice needed

2018-12-23 Thread I. Ivanov
On 2018-12-23 16:12, Edgardo Hoszowski wrote: There's an option on lighttable under history stack "write sidecar files", that should do it. This is very promising! Thank you! I did few tests and works well. It is exactly the function I was looking for. Regards, B El dom., 23 dic.

Re: [darktable-user] backup advice needed

2018-12-23 Thread Edgardo Hoszowski
There's an option on lighttable under history stack "write sidecar files", that should do it. El dom., 23 dic. 2018 a las 20:54, I. Ivanov () escribió: > > On 2018-12-23 15:28, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > * I. Ivanov [12-23-18 17:57]: > >> Hi Guys, > >> > >> I had an unfortunate event to clear

Re: [darktable-user] backup advice needed

2018-12-23 Thread I. Ivanov
On 2018-12-23 15:28, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * I. Ivanov [12-23-18 17:57]: Hi Guys, I had an unfortunate event to clear metadata from about 600 images (it took me close to 3h to restore as much as I could). Because there is no "undo" this brings me to the question. What can I do to have a

Re: [darktable-user] backup advice needed

2018-12-23 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* I. Ivanov [12-23-18 17:57]: > Hi Guys, > > I had an unfortunate event to clear metadata from about 600 images (it took > me close to 3h to restore as much as I could). > > Because there is no "undo" this brings me to the question. > > What can I do to have a good backup for such cases? I can

[darktable-user] backup advice needed

2018-12-23 Thread I. Ivanov
Hi Guys, I had an unfortunate event to clear metadata from about 600 images (it took me close to 3h to restore as much as I could). Because there is no "undo" this brings me to the question. What can I do to have a good backup for such cases? I can backup easily (and very frequent)