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Transition from local to remote/external storage

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4.0.12
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https://images.squidge.org
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7.4
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MySQL
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MariaDB V10.5.22
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walterhpdx

walterhpdx

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I was wondering if anyone has tried to convert from local storage to external, and if so, what advice do you have?

I started using Chevereto a few years back for fandom hosting when many fandom-friendly image hosting services started killing accounts without notice. It was just a couple dozen people at first, but now we're suddenly growing and I've got 135Gb of images on my local server. That's fine, but I'd like to transition to external storage. I did a search but didn't find anything, so I thought I'd ask here. Any info/guidance would be welcomed. Thanks!
 
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That's a lot of storage, congrats.

It all depends on your target storage, but the general rule of thumb is to disable any kind of file versioning.

For some systems you will simply rsync, in other cases you will need a tool to move files. It is a lot of space, when doing it via CLI mind using screen to keep the session alive.

At Chevereto there's a dashboard tool enabling to migrate records from null (no storage) to your new target storage id.
 
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Barry said:
I would not bother migrating to external storage for your CURRENT images. Configure external storage for new images going forward.
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why not migrate the current images? Will the bb codes and markdown codes not work anymore?

To migrate i use rsync or scp via the command line. It's really simple and fast. I migrated 500GB or data from an old server to a new server the other day. It took about 30 minutes.

I used chatgpt to help me migrate a server. It told me all the commands.
 
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