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[[!comment format=mdwn
username="Rob"
avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/1d12b1e7e4d6ef1dd57cd9f3ec848dc7"
subject="creating directory special remote "in-place""
date="2021-08-05T18:13:35Z"
content="""
I'm using git-annex for backing up a variety of data, with several different remotes (including a USB drive for backup, rsync for encrypted cloud backup, etc). I have one particular use case that I am trying to figure out how to implement:
Pictures, Music, and Video are stored on a WD MyCloud under three corresponding folders. They are accessible via NFS, as well as via AFP; I specifically mount them on my laptop via NFS. I want to be able to access the files in the following ways:
- Store new photos from other sources, including my laptop, using git-annex.
- Have available the list of files on my laptop repository, in git-annex... i.e. like any repository.
- Retain all the file contents on the WD MyCloud... i.e. like a special remote.
- ONLY pull file contents to the laptop (or other repositories) if specifically requested (i.e. I don't want a sync to cause things to get pulled to the laptop).
- When photos are pulled from the special remote, they go into ~/annex/photos (i.e. a different name than the folder on the remote).
- I want to be able to access the files on the WD MyCloud \"normally\" from other computers, TVs, etc. I realize there's some 'danger' here. But I wanted to keep normal file trees for the special remote, not the hash-based filenames with symlinks.
So what I decided I needed was a directory special remote, with both the exporttree and importtree options. So I created the special remote using something like:
git annex initremote wdmycloud-pics directory=/net/wdmycloud/nfs/Public/Shared\ Pictures encryption=none exportree=yes importtree=yes
On my laptop's repository, I executed the following:
git annex import master:photos --from wdmycloud-pics
git merge wdmycloud-pics/master
Problem:
- This imports the content from the special remote, into the laptop's repository. I don't want that.
I do realize that my main git-annex repository on the laptop probably has to actually download all of the files in order to compute their hashes. However, I do not want them to stay on the laptop, as there is nowhere's near enough space for all of them. I did try:
git-annex wanted wdmycloud-pics \"exclude=photos/*\"
However, this results in none of the files on the WD MyCloud actually getting processed.
What am I missing?
Thanks!
-Rob
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