#2 more storage features

[Anonymous]

Beside the fact that CDMEDIC is one of the best
packages ever seen, I would kindly request some more
features: 1. auto-rebuild function of pacs in case of
recovery after hardware brakedown, e.g. by reading
directories and/or cd/dvd. 2. CD/DVD safety automatic
backup, e.g. building of CD/DVD sets self-acting after
recieving enough data to fill one cd/dvd and starting
automtically with the burning so that the operator has
only to change the cd's after burning, 3. auto-router
function with the possibility of building buffering lists in
case of non-transportation of pictures in case of logic or
hardware errors, so that these missing pictures are
transmitted as soon as the connection is open again
(like most download managers do it), 4. patient-CD with
DICOM viewer on CD like CDMEDIC with mini-Knoppix only
with the dicom viewing features.
Best regards,
Dr. med. Georg P. Dahmen
orthopedic surgeon
info@georg-dahmen.de

[Pablo Sau]

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1.-You can backup nightly the mysql DB with a cron script
and the recover quickly from a DB corruption, problem I've
never go trough.
2.-Many commercial PACS have short term(online) and long
term(CD,DVD,MO,Tape Juke-boxes) archives, as disk storage is
more capable and cheaper, I think is better to have one
online archive based in software RAID with IDE disks, with
journal ed file system and of course UPS support, then you
minimize the possibility of loosing data even you can have a
mirrored system with a reasonable cost.
When you reach 1 TB to manage a large set of CD or DVD can
be very complicated and operator dependent.
3.-The DICOM standard implement a Service Class that address
this point, to be sure that the PACS stored successfully all
the sent studies you must use from the modality the Storage
Commit.
4.-That's a good idea, but it must be done without re
mastering the Knoppix mini CD because is a time consuming
procedure, I'll add this to my TODO.
Best Regards
Pablo Sau