[Leica] [Leica} Tina's Drobos... Update: All loaded.

[Peter Dzwig]

A hero and a gentleman!

Brilliant job. I hadn't realised until this morning that you were 
operating all this out of Hawaii!

Fantastic.

Peter

On 31/05/2024 20:59, Frank Filippone via LUG wrote:
> If there are any of you still interested in the terribly nerdy, and not 
> Leica related, IT based information of this subject, I continue my 
> tale.... Those that do not care, can hit the delete key and save your 
> time and patience for other things.....
> 
> Tina has all her images, 40.2TB of them, now on one Synology NAS.  At 
> this moment, she is directing LR to find all the new places for these 
> images. Not a fast task, but a necessary one.
> 
> FYI, the copy speed of the Drobos to the NAS was 5TB/ DAY..... the 40TB 
> of this installation, would have taken 8 Days running 24/7. I made some 
> errors and there were some duplicated folders, so it took longer... 
> about 12 days.   The Drobo was directly plugged into the back of the 
> NAS, and the NAS was running directly with the USB port,, no computer in 
> the "middle".  This is the fastest configuration.  The copy was done by 
> use of the faster O/S of the NAS, not Windows.  (This is SOOOOO nerdy,, 
> if you wish to know more, contact me directly.  )
> 
> The Drobo source files are being preserved for a while until we are sure 
> all the images have been copied properly, none forgotten or misplaced.  
> They sit on a shelf, without power ( or purpose) for now.  Later they 
> will be cannibalized for the HDD inside, to go into her ProDrives for a 
> archive backup to the NAS.
> 
> If anyone has interest in Drobos, and has the insane ( Value judgement 
> is mine) death wish to use these, please contact  Tina, directly. It is 
> not time to get rid of them yet, but you should check with her to make 
> arrangements....
> 
> I do not suspect there will be a big stampede, but who knows?
> 
> Note on the Probox:  These reasonably cheap ( few hundred $$$) HDD 
> enclosures have an interesting feature that I will use when we get that 
> far... they have an eSATA port.  So does the NAS ( not all do).  This is 
> of value because eSATA is significantly faster (so I am told, 5GB/Sec on 
> USB 3.0, 6GB/Sec for eSATA) then USB 3.0.  Backup times will be reduced 
> significantly.
> 
> If you are thinking about also putting all your images on one HDD array, 
> NAS or RAID or not, AND you have an eSATA port on your computer ( some 
> do, others do not) this is probably the best way to wire up your 
> computer... use eSATA to ProBox directly rather than use USB to make the 
> connection faster.
> 
> Be Aware that eSATA does not support hot-swapping, therefore the 
> computer has to be restarted to recognize the connected device.  Not a 
> big deal. Especially if you have only one eSATA device.
> 
> More to come as I get everything working.... better, faster, and more 
> protected.
> 
> 
> Frank Filippone BMWRed735i at Gmail.com
> 
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Dr. Peter Dzwig