Does Gallery 2 Double Disk Space?
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anonymous11234
Joined: 2002-12-05
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Posted: Tue, 2005-02-15 00:32
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Does Gallery 2 copy the albums directory of Gallery 1 when importing it? 521M ./albums (original gallery) |
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Yes. G2 imports = copies all G1 data.
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Ouch! I guess the safest thing to do is when I think I have my gallery 2 okay, just tar and gunzip the original albums directly and save it to my PC?
One of my sites woodshopphotos.com has a 1GB limit on the hosting account. Do you see any way I can upload to G2 without raising that limit? It's using about 800 MB right now.
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Good point, I see the same problem coming for my hosted webspace.
I thought I'd do it as follows:
1. Get the G1 albums on a server at home
2. Upgrade from G1 to G2 on the server at home
3. Delete G1 on the webspace
4. Upload G2 with g2data and the database to the webspace
Problem: The webserver user is a different one on my private server at home and on the webspace. So, you'll have to take care of that, chown (change the owner) of the g2data dirs and files recursively to the new webserver user.
Alternative: Incremental upgrade
Upgrade a set of albums, then delete the corresponding old G1 albums. Upgrade the next set of albums....
Alternative: Ask your webhost admin if he can give you more diskspace just for an hour or so.
Anyway, backup your G1 before!
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Alternative: Upgrade from G1 to G2 at home, and use export/import module to incrementally move the albums from home server to your new G2 webspace (the situation that you describe was one of the reasons to write this module in the first place </shameless_plug>