I must be missing something (remote sync function?)

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First of all, let me say thank you, Zoltan Hubai, for some awesome work. I've been dicking around with tethering-via-linux for several years, but lack the coding chops (and attention span) to get much done beyond a remote shutter release.

While I've been overjoyed with the capabilities of this server/client combination, I've recently come upon a need for something simple - a few roaming event photogs shooting action sports, with cameras tethered to hacked routers or Raspberry Pis, whose captures are automatically synched to a central server. Nothing fancy, just rock solid file transfer from SD card, through USB, to network, from multiple sources.

Since qD already handles multiple instances of the dd server on the network just fine, I figured it would do this. But everything I've read in the manual and online show the qD client in control all the time, never just taking a backseat and catching what's thrown at it.\

When I DO press the shutter release on the physical camera with dd running, the Pi does what seems to be a hard freeze, inaccessible from keyboard or SSH.

So like I said - am I missing something? I tried multiple search terms but nothing came up.

Worse comes to worst I'll just do a Gphoto2 capture and an rsync cron job every minute or so. This should keep the images flowing to the print server, but is so user unfriendly I'm thinking I'll be spending more time keeping the system running than shooting photos.

Thanks!
Allen

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What camera do you use?

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This was a Canon 450D, but I'm also going to be trying it on a 1000D, a T2i, and a 60D