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Originally Posted by joneng
Hi James
I'm new here but from what I've gathered running a calibre library on a network share is not advised and you will have issues sooner or later.
So, given you understand the risks, how are you doing the mappings? are you mounting the nas shares in /etc/fstab so they mount on boot?
some resources to help set this up if not
https://timlehr.com/auto-mount-samba...stab-on-linux/
https://www.techrepublic.com/article...hare-on-linux/
when mounting shares configured in fstab manually, e.g. if they get disconnected and you dont want to reboot the device then verbose switch (-v) might help identify mount failure reason, e.g.
mount -av
hth, jon |
Jon
Yep, I'm aware that this could cause death of the library, etc. etc. But, I back it up occasionally and it's been working just fine for the last several years. In fact I think I've been using Calibre since 2011 (is that possible?) and never once had a problem with it despite using it across several machines during that time. It's a phenomenal piece of work! Of course if you do attempt to access from multiple places at once you can expect disaster, that's kind of obvious with this kind of system
Many thanks for the pointers, I will investigate! I think it's attempting to mount, not finding the share and then just drops dead. It's not like Windows which can recover the connection when it reappears.. I daresay I could probably script up something, but I'm lazy!
thanks again
James