- Lightroom Version Number
- Lightroom Classic version: 10.0
- Operating System
- Windows 10
Am a photo enthusiast and novice techie with a bulging photo library.
Rather than just adding more drives and more Catalogue’s, am looking to merge to a ‘Master Catalogue’ with a single photo library residing on a NAS (while keeping the LrC Catalogue on the PC SSD (D: Drive))
After moving a copy of the files to a NAS folder, LrC couldn’t ‘see’ the photos because the drive is networked.
Looked for solutions and found a way was to set up an iSCSI volume formatted to NTFS. The tutorial was for re-locating the Catalogue to a NAS so not exactly what I used it for but helpful just the same.
Reference tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaCKA1YaOoM
Have done that and now LrC can see the images on the NTFS formatted iSCSI networked drive. Speeds are fine and it all seems to be working. But, before committing further, am second guessing and wondering if this iSCSI method is a good way or, is there another, more simple way to have LrC ‘see’ a networked drive?
Ideally, would like to not have to use this method. One reason is the back-up strategy gets complicated because the NAS can’t see the folders within it’s own iSCSI volume. Therefore, simply backing up the contents of one NAS to the other probably isn’t an option anymore. I’ve also read that if there’s a PC crash then restoring isn’t simple because of iSCSI needing to be re-done on the PC before LrC can recover.
My set up is a W10 PC attached directly to a 10GbE Synology DS1819+ (not via a switch). Total drive capacity 34TB with duel 400GB SSD used for caching. The PC is also networked to an older, similar sized Synology in a different location with 1GbE link (via a switch) which is used for back-up purposed only.
Any help is most welcome.
Rather than just adding more drives and more Catalogue’s, am looking to merge to a ‘Master Catalogue’ with a single photo library residing on a NAS (while keeping the LrC Catalogue on the PC SSD (D: Drive))
After moving a copy of the files to a NAS folder, LrC couldn’t ‘see’ the photos because the drive is networked.
Looked for solutions and found a way was to set up an iSCSI volume formatted to NTFS. The tutorial was for re-locating the Catalogue to a NAS so not exactly what I used it for but helpful just the same.
Reference tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaCKA1YaOoM
Have done that and now LrC can see the images on the NTFS formatted iSCSI networked drive. Speeds are fine and it all seems to be working. But, before committing further, am second guessing and wondering if this iSCSI method is a good way or, is there another, more simple way to have LrC ‘see’ a networked drive?
Ideally, would like to not have to use this method. One reason is the back-up strategy gets complicated because the NAS can’t see the folders within it’s own iSCSI volume. Therefore, simply backing up the contents of one NAS to the other probably isn’t an option anymore. I’ve also read that if there’s a PC crash then restoring isn’t simple because of iSCSI needing to be re-done on the PC before LrC can recover.
My set up is a W10 PC attached directly to a 10GbE Synology DS1819+ (not via a switch). Total drive capacity 34TB with duel 400GB SSD used for caching. The PC is also networked to an older, similar sized Synology in a different location with 1GbE link (via a switch) which is used for back-up purposed only.
Any help is most welcome.