[TYPO3-dam] external files in DAM

[georg kuehnberger]

Chaps, just an idea:
How about using webdav on the remote server and
davfs2 on the local DAM instance
see: http://dav.sourceforge.net/

I doubth it be a "fast" solution, however faster than manually entering 
urls in DAM Metadata.
The nice point is, it should be fully transparent to dam.

Another option would be to do a bidirectional rsync, which would double 
the files;
regards georg

Dan Osipov wrote:
> That's an interesting feature, but there is a lot to account for... a 
> lot of DAM's operations assume the file is accessible via the filesystem 
> - making it accessible via URI would change a whole lot. That's the 
> reason that you can't create DAM records directly (although you could, 
> through the list module, but that's not recommended).
> 
> Dan Osipov
> Calkins Media
> http://danosipov.com/blog/
> 
> stefano cecere wrote:
>> thanks dan
>>
>> well.. i meant external files accessed via URI like 
>> http:///www.mediawebsite.com/fileadmin/hugefile.zip
>>
>> so to keep a DAM record with category, filetype, data, copyright etc, 
>> but the file is accessed with external URL
>>
>> right now it's not possible to create a DAM record by hand!
>> (and if i could, say via phpmyadmin or custom ext) i don't know it it 
>> would work
>>
>> do you think it coudl be an interesting feature?
>> s
>>
>>
>>
>> Dan Osipov wrote:
>>> DAM works well with NFS, so even if files are on external server, as 
>>> long as directories are symlinked or mounted somewhere in fileadmin, 
>>> DAM will handle them just fine.
>>>
>>> We use an iSCSI for all storage, and files are accessed from multiple 
>>> servers, which mount the shared directories. DAM works just fine.
>>>
>>> Dan Osipov
>>> Calkins Media
>>> http://danosipov.com/blog/
>>>
>>> stefano cecere wrote:
>>>> hi..
>>>>
>>>> if one has the media archive on a different server...
>>>> does anybody know if it is possibile to have external files in the 
>>>> DAM list?
>>>>
>>>> (i would put all indexing data by hand, since indexing maybe not 
>>>> work well with external files...)
>>>>
>>>> i see that creing news DAM records in the Media folder doesn't allow 
>>>> the basic file location to be set.
>>>>
>>>> should i go with fake "preview" on the local server and use the 
>>>> "original source" as real file path?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> thanks!!
>>>>
>>>> stefano