Per-BKWine Posted June 12, 2018 Report Share Posted June 12, 2018 Every night I run a backup, that includes the Daminion catalogues. I have the Daminion catalogues in a folder called (surprise) Daminion and I back up all contents of that folder (I have more than one catalogue in that folder). In that folder Daminion has also put the (hidden) thumbnail folder ~Thumbs. It turns out that this folder is pretty big. Currently around 20 GB and I only have a fraction of my full catalogue in Daminion. In fact, I only have about 25,000 items there and my full collection is over 225,000 images, which is perhaps a bit worrying. To my question: Can I chose to locate ~Thumbs in another folder than the catalogue folder? I want to run my own nightly backups on all catalogues in the Daminion folder, so selecting that folder for backup would be best. But since that huge ~Thumbs folder is there I have to manually deselect ~Thumbs since I don't need it backed-up. And as you have pointed out, anything that has to be done manually about backups tends to be forgotten.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daria Kotilainen Posted June 12, 2018 Report Share Posted June 12, 2018 Hi, unfortunately, it's not possible to change the location of the Thumbs folder if you have a standalone version. Does your backup tool allows you to exclude folders from being backed up? That might be a solution Kind regards, Daria Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daria Kotilainen Posted June 12, 2018 Report Share Posted June 12, 2018 If this is a big issue for you, would you maybe consider migrating to Home Server? We would help you with the process. Besides when you finally import all your 200k files, the standalone performance may get a bit slower. Contact me please at support/at/daminion/dot/net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Per-BKWine Posted June 26, 2018 Author Report Share Posted June 26, 2018 Daria, Thanks for the feedback. Yes, I can do that with my backup tool, now that I am aware of the issue. But it is a step that is easy to forget. I am also a bit worried about the sheer size of that folder once I put my entire collection in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damo Posted July 27, 2018 Report Share Posted July 27, 2018 Hi Per-BKWine, The limitation of Daminion doesn't allow you to do that natively, however you can use what is call a "Hard-link" or "Symbolic-link" to move that ~Thumb anywhere you want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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