Only store metadata to SQL database

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Hi Everyone,

I have 2 Orthanc servers running with a P2P connection, is there a way for me to send only the metadata and not the bulk(.dcm images) from one Orthanc server to another?

Regards

2

Hi,

If you configure your target with "StoreDicom": false, it will not save the .dcm files.
However, note that the DCM files will be transferred to the target but it won’t be stored to disk.

HTH,

Alain

Reference:

  // If this option is set to "false", Orthanc will run in index-only
  // mode. The DICOM files will not be stored on the drive: Orthanc
  // only indexes the small subset of the so-called "main DICOM tags"
  // in its SQL database. Note that this option might prevent the
  // upgrade to newer versions of Orthanc. Also note that this
  // behavior might not be available with the storage area plugins.
  "StoreDicom" : true,
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Hi Alain,

Thanks for the help!

I was wondering if there’s a way to do this from the source Orthanc itself. Like if I get a scan from a modality to the source Orthanc, it only sends the metadata to the target Orthanc.

Regards,

Yash

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No, this is not possible without transferring the whole DICOM file.