[GNC] transaction images and failed hard drives

[Jeff]

On 10/14/22 12:14 PM, john wrote:
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>> On Oct 13, 2022, at 11:24 PM, Jeff <beastmaster126 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> Is there any way, even the slightest, to attach a transaction image 
>> to a daemon instead of a specific file? That way I could use a 
>> database system in the background to hold images instead of the file 
>> system. That way images would still be available to GNC and 
>> searchable for me (never know when a rebate might show up {grin}).
>
> There's https://github.com/MigNov/Fuse-db that uses mysql-connector 
> (should also work with mariadb's connector) to create a filesystem 
> interface. There's also a perl module, 
> https://metacpan.org/pod/Fuse::DBI,  that (like GnuCash) uses libdbi 
> so it's a bit more general; the problem is that it's only mountable 
> from inside perl so it won't work directly with GnuCash.
>
> Alternatively the link field takes URIs as well as directory paths and 
> IIRC it can load http: or https: URIs. If you can run a local web 
> server to serve the URIs you can use PHP to query a supported database 
> for the desired image.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
Thank you John, I'll look into it.  That might be the only suggestion 
for now.  I would rather have a program standing next to GNC to look at 
images, from any location that GNC can access regardless of location.


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--JEffrey Black M.B.A.