Upgrade StorageZotero on a Proxmox-Server
Hi all,
my daughter and I are using Zotero locally on our Computers. Next year she starts her bachelor thesis (and hopefully more will come). So I thought of installing Zotero on my Proxmox-Server. As I can backup the machine regularly she will not come in trouble by loosing a homework or even the thesis.
The idea is that she works with the client installation of Zotero accessing the documents on the server online. So she can work at home and at the university with the same database and the same environment - without having tons of documents on her Notebook and the "thrill" of loosing everything.
Actually I am at the point to decide: My friend Chattie (ChatGPT) told me to install Zotero as root enabling it for both users (i.e. two separate user accounts of the Linux-Installation). But after starting it for the second user I received a error message with a lot of elements that will not run. Was it my fault or is this just not possible? So now I think of installing it twice – one copy for every user.
I have few experience in working with Zotero and absolutely no experience in working with Zotero in combination with a Server, so I would like to ask here if anybody did this before and can help me. Especially WebDAV is completely new territory for me.
Thanx
my daughter and I are using Zotero locally on our Computers. Next year she starts her bachelor thesis (and hopefully more will come). So I thought of installing Zotero on my Proxmox-Server. As I can backup the machine regularly she will not come in trouble by loosing a homework or even the thesis.
The idea is that she works with the client installation of Zotero accessing the documents on the server online. So she can work at home and at the university with the same database and the same environment - without having tons of documents on her Notebook and the "thrill" of loosing everything.
Actually I am at the point to decide: My friend Chattie (ChatGPT) told me to install Zotero as root enabling it for both users (i.e. two separate user accounts of the Linux-Installation). But after starting it for the second user I received a error message with a lot of elements that will not run. Was it my fault or is this just not possible? So now I think of installing it twice – one copy for every user.
I have few experience in working with Zotero and absolutely no experience in working with Zotero in combination with a Server, so I would like to ask here if anybody did this before and can help me. Especially WebDAV is completely new territory for me.
Thanx
Thanks for your really helpful words. Not only me, but also Chatty were overthinking the whole issue massively. I have already made the experience, that KI - if it comes to IT - is always searching the most complex solution that does not work at the end ...
- It first told me to install Zotero on the Server – which was not necessary at all.
- The second step was to "reduce" down to WebDAV. And here the easiest way should be NextCloud. At this step I decided to change from Proxmox to my Synology NAS. Installing NextCloud is tricky, but I found a pure WebDAV installation on the NAS and started the installation.
- At a certain point I realized that not even this is necessary! I have full access inside my home-LAN (MacOS) and can just change the References into Zotero to the folders on the NAS. And I already have a VPN-Tunnel on the Router. So by using this my daughter can access easily the folder on the NAS from outside the LAN.
It is so much easier than expected!
The only thing i miss is that that it's not possible to store the database on the Server. I was already taught that sqllight does not like this. So I'm actually looking for an easy backup solution (always back-up on server when the local app is closed).