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Networked Workflow - NAS drives with C011

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I've been using standard hard drives to store my original photos, CO catalogue and sessions as well as a duplicate hard drive that I keep offsite as my backup. I'm looking to upgrade my storage and backup systems to incorporate an NAS. I don't have any experience use NAS drives and am wondering if anyone has set up a CO workflow using an NAS? My goal is to have an NAS as my main storage/working unit for catalogues, sessions and original files and then take independent sessions with me whenever I need to work on the road, but still have the ability to reach other files and projects while traveling if a client requests something that I wasn't expecting.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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  • Ian Wilson
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    It's worth searching the forum for threads about NAS. I don't use it myself, but it would appear that some users have had difficulties, so it's worth reading about that.

    Ian
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  • BeO
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    I have had a NAS setup in the past (internal network only), I used to store the originals on the NAS, catalog on local machine (Notebook, at that time). Using Capture One v8 I have had enough issues to abandon this approach. I did not open the NAS to the internet as you'd like to do.

    However, if you have the need to access your older projects for unexpected client requests, then why not trying to do so. Anyways, a NAS as a backup media (but it should not be the only one) makes sense, so why not just give it a try, even if you'd be ending up - in the worst case- using the NAS for backup.

    If all goes well you still would have to deal with slow intenet network performance or weird network routes if you happen to open big catalogs or sessions, as C1 (at least v8) tried to acccess each original raw file when starting up. I have my doubts that you'll succeed to your satisfaction, but that's more of a gut feeling.

    If you have no experience try to get some support from a friend, especially when opening your internal network to the outside.

    Cheers
    BeO
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