LinkedPhotoImport
Requirements:
- Gather photos at several locations (Windoze PC's) into one linux-based central media repository (aka mediacenter)
- Leave the photos at the original locations
- Anticipate some maintenance of photos at the original locations
- Use gallery (a great LAMP webapp) to manage the mediacenter photos
- Management should include creation of a public directory for shared photos
- Minimize duplication on the mediacenter
- Access to public photos via the web and for screensavers
Solution components:
- gallery on mediacenter
- xscreensaver on mediacenter
- Windows nightly batch-file task to copy new photos to mediacenter
- Four directories on mediacenter
- archive - holds original photos
- dump - holds newest photos and symlinks to old in archive
- managed - holds symlinks to archive
- public - symlink to public directory in managed
- linked photo import script