Define new storage location

[Hammad Moeen]

Hi 

My current DICOM Storage is almost full. I want to define a new location and also need to direct PACS to store images on new location.

Please guide.

--HM

[ricardo.j....@gmail.com]

In the first lines of the Configuration.json file, you find the "path storage", in that line you can change the location of the dicom files storage.

En las primeras lineas del archivo Configuracion.json, encuentras el apartado "path storage", allí puedes indicar en donde quieres que se almacenen los archivos dicom.

[Hammad Moeen]

If i change the path from old to new or add a new entry in that??

If i change the path to new path will old images be available for viewing??

[williamsa...@gmail.com]

Hi

If you have a full disk, you must move the folder with the information of the studies to a new location, for that you need to indicate in the ORTHANC.JSON file where the folders with the patient data will be located ("StorageDirectory") and where there will be the index files ("IndexDirectory"). My personal experience, I have more speed in the searches by storing the patient data files in a new location (it is the heaviest data) and the index files where the Orthanc program is installed.

William

[Sébastien Jodogne]

Hello,

As a complement to the two answers above, also check out the FAQ about scalability:

https://book.orthanc-server.com/faq/scalability.html

"If you need to grow the storage area as more space becomes needed, you can consider the following solutions:
- Move the storage area to another disk partition, and update the StorageDirectory configuration option accordingly.
- Replicate your current instance of Orthanc onto another instance of Orthanc with a larger storage area.
- On GNU/Linux distributions, check out LVM (Logical Volume Manager).
- On Microsoft Windows, check out the so-called “Storage Spaces”.
- Another approach is to use MinIO in distributed mode in conjunction with the AWS S3 plugin for Orthanc."

Sébastien-