Trying to save project to server

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#1

I am trying to save a project to a server. I do some of the work on my desktop and live recording on a laptop in another location. So I need the project to live on a server. If I just “save” there is no error message. then when I try to quit, it tells me that I have not saved and gives me a “save and quit” option. I take this and get an error message stating that Ardour could not save session. There are no error codes or othermessages. So I just quit and go to look at the server location and it looks like all the files are there, but if I try to open it, it is just an empty session or it acts like it’s not there depending on how I try to select it.
If I create the same session but just take all the default locations, (home directory) it works just fine.
Any help appreciated.

W. Evans

#2

How do you access the server?

Note that Ardour sessions are case-sensitive, the file-system must also support that.

Furthermore audio files are usually directly mapped into memory (mmap on Linux/macOS, CreateFileMapping on Windows). So the network-file system must support this.

Check Ardour > Window > Log – and see if there are any messages when saving the file.

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PS. In general it is not recommended to use a NAS for audio-sessions, while you may have sufficient bandwidth, the throughput may be insufficient.

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#3

I’ve tried it both with native linux share and Samba. It does write the files and it looks just like the one that works (local)

Willy Evans

#4

I have just tested this with NFS and that works.
The remote system is also a Linux host that exports a ext4 filesystem via NFS v4.

#5

I’ll keep experimenting.
Thanks for the input.

W. Evans

#6

I save all sessions under Linux using NFS on my NAS server and everything works as a charm, including multitrack recording. My disk I/O subsystem had no performance issues. However, I have never tried smb protocol.

#7

Cool. I’ll try again with non-smb and see how it goes.

W. Evans