[ome-users] OMERO.fs question

[Colin Blackburn]

Hi Christophe,

> On 9 Feb 2015, at 21:51, Christophe TREFOIS <christophe.trefois at uni.lu> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the feedback. I read that it doesn't work on network mounts to auto-remove the data from Dropbox. Also Dropbox feature itself does not work on network share.

Yes, DropBox is limited to using the native filesystem monitoring available and so can only be used in a limited number of situations.

> This is quite upsetting as we will many TBs of data and usually the local attached disks are not that big, especially in the context of a VM.
>
> How can I solve this issue?

As Curtis has explained you can set-up some sort of cron job to import from some defined location periodically. We are planning to incorporate a polling DropBox mode that would allow monitoring of remote shares but we don’t have a firm timescale for this yet, but we’ll certainly keep you informed on this.

> Best,

Cheers,

Colin


> _____________________________
> From: Curtis Rueden <ctrueden at wisc.edu>
> Sent: Monday, February 9, 2015 10:13 pm
> Subject: Re: [ome-users] OMERO.fs question
> To: OME User Support List <ome-users at lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk>
>
>
> Hi Christophe,
>
> > Does the Dropbox move images to the omero.data.dir location
> > or do the images stay in the dropbox folder?
>
> You can choose:
> http://openmicroscopy.org/site/support/omero5/sysadmins/in-place-import.html#transfer-options
>
> > What happens if an image is renamed, or deleted by the user on the
> > file system?
>
> As you might expect, OMERO cannot find the pixels anymore. But metadata in the DB is unaffected.
>
> > How do you manage user access to each folder? Using Samba?
> > One single account?
>
> There are umpteen ways to do it. The default recommended way in the docs is to use Unix users; see:
>
> http://openmicroscopy.org/site/support/omero5/sysadmins/dropbox.html#using-dropbox
>
> Regards,
> Curtis
>
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Christophe TREFOIS <christophe.trefois at uni.lu> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
>
>
> We are looking into using OMERO.dropbox for automatic import of images into OMERO.
>
>
>
> Does the Dropbox move images to the omero.data.dir location or do the images stay in the dropbox folder?
>
> What happens if an image is renamed, or deleted by the user on the file system? How do you manage user access to each folder? Using Samba? One single account?
>
>
>
> It would be great if some people could share their experience and perhaps setups regarding this.
>
>
>
> Thank you for your help,
>
>
>
> --
>
> Christophe
>
>
>
> Dr Christophe Trefois, Dipl.-Ing.
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