I have all my regular folders mounted in the container and it’s all running wonderfully (thank you!), so now I’m turning to my less-regular storage devices and wondering how to include them into my one-photo-folder-to-rule-them-all Photostructure library.
Is there a way to set up my Docker volumes such that I can plug in an external HDD and it’ll get scanned for any photos missing from my main library? Or, could I use the manual import option? I haven’t figured out how to make Docker “see” anything other than the volume/mounting binds (and, obviously, I don’t yet understand the difference between volumes and mounts and which one I’ve done…)
I wonder if you could achieve this by mapping a USB port to the container rather than a filesystem. I don’t know if the alpine image has the neccessary software to auto-mount, but that could be remediated.
Thank you both. I like the idea of mapping a port, that’s a really interesting solution.
Am I correct in my assumption that if I plug in a drive/folder that has 90% of the same assets as my PS library, PS will scan the whole thing and import the unique 10%? I’m hoping this is how I’ll make sure my PS library has everything across all my disparate storage sources.
I’ve deployed PS using Portainer rather than docker-compose; am I safe enough just hitting “edit/dulicate”, adding the new volume, then deploying it which automatically stops the old one and starts the new one with the extra volume included?