Hi All,

We live on a farm and have a limited bandwidth both in speed and capacity via Hughes Net satellite. Sometimes it's a slow as a 56K modem. No I'm not kidding! So I came up with this brainstorm to perhaps make maintenance a more tolerable ordeal.

Here are the parameters
- all media exists on a standalone hard drive system.
- 8Bay JBOD
- eSATA or USB
- WD RED 6TB drives
- labelled N and M
- free gigabit network use at work

Scenario:
If I have a running version Mezzmo on my home and work machines, and it only looks for content on the N and M drives and folders, can I assume that I can move the drive pack from home to work and back without upsetting the structure of my library.

Assumptions:
- all media is added before the maintenance task
- no changes to the media from work to home
- when the maintenance is done the database files from the system drive are copied to the identical location on the home machine. (What files are needed?)

Conclusion:
if this works, as I believe it can, my library can be maintained in only a few minutes, especially with new image downloads, versus hours. And of course the spare change in data use might actually allow us to watch another SD Netflix!

Please - no lectures about using work assets for personal use. It's acceptable practice here within guidelines.

Thank you all,
-Dave