upgrade/migrate existing data on 4.4 server to use omero.fs

[jacques2020]

Dear Omero team,

first a thank you for the great job of the version 5. Omero.fs will be a terrific improvement for the storage of large images !
I nevertheless have a question: How can a existing server (more precisely existing data) be converted to this new format (assuming that original data were archived ) to save the duplicate storage ? I failed to find any way or script to do so. I am particularly interested since my omero data are currently about 30 TB !

Of course I am not meaning accessing the pre 5 data from omero (which work perfectly) but removing the duplicate storage they use.

Many thanks for your help

Best regards

Jacques

[jmoore]

Hi Jacques, there's one other forum thread about this. See:
https://www.openmicroscopy.org/community/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7430&hilit=script
I'll file a ticket, CC you, and place it in the upcoming 5.0.2 milestone,
but it's not completely clear if we'll be able to do anything general.
Instead, it may be more of a "suggestion" of what could work.

Could you perhaps explain what data you have archived for our benefit?

Cheers
~Josh.

[jmoore]

Please follow https://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/ome/ticket/12176 to monitor the progress of this work.

Thanks,
~Josh

[jacques2020]

Hi,

My data consist of many biological microscopy data mainly acquired with 4 softwares in several formats along time Andor iQ (tif files with metadata in txt), Andor Solis (formerly iXon) (multiple multiframe or single-frame tif files, older data in fits format), metamorph (tif files with nd file detailing assembling of tifs into an n-D stack, single or multiframe tif, stk), and finaly lif produced by Leica LAS-AF software. I can of course provide some as example if it helps.

I have a production server with ~ 30 TB (debian 7 64bits, ice34) and a test server for developing python scripts or so. I can indeed test a beta if it helps at some points...

Thank you for the quick answer in anyway

Best

Jacques