From reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us  Fri May  3 15:19:26 2024
From: reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us (Brian Reid)
Date: Fri, 03 May 2024 08:19:26 -0700
Subject: [Leica] External Hard Drives
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Connected to what? If there is backup power, then the computer shouldn't 
be aware of the outage.
The drive letters are determined by the computer and not by the drives, 
so the computer is what needs to be plugged into an APC.

On 2024-05-03 07:57, Tina Manley via LUG wrote:
> I have an APC power backup connected but it doesn't help!
> 
> Tina
> 
> On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 10:55?AM Sonny Carter via LUG 
> <lug at leica-users.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> I have back ups power supplies on mine and never had that happen.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Sonny
>> www.SonC.Com/Look
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 9:45?AM Tina Manley via LUG 
>> <lug at leica-users.org>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> > LUG:
>> >
>> > Every time the power goes out, as it did this morning, when it comes back
>> > on all of my 7 external hard drives have changed their designation letter
>> > arbitrarily.  It really messes up my LR catalog and takes hours to fix.
>> >
>> > Current (G) becomes Current (J) and all photos in LR have to be "found"
>> > again.
>> >
>> > Is there any way to permanently assign these designations so they don't
>> > change??
>> >
>> > TIA
>> >
>> > Tina
>> >
>> > --
>> > https://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/index
>> > https://pbase.com/tinamanley
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
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From reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us  Thu May 16 22:24:00 2024
From: reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us (Brian Reid)
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 15:24:00 -0700
Subject: [Leica] [Leica} Drobos... If you have them what can you expect?
In-Reply-To: <6f916788-21d2-45cd-9855-b94fff55de67@gmail.com>
References: <6a45704e-e507-4746-b767-9ad1795b6216@gmail.com>
 <6f916788-21d2-45cd-9855-b94fff55de67@gmail.com>
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Frank speaks the truth, and persuasively. If you use Drobo, mind his 
words carefully.

For many years I used ReadyNAS LAN-connected storage devices. A Drobo 
competitor.
When I saw ReadyNAS circling the drain a few years ago, I spent a lot of 
time trying to figure out what to do next.
With Drobo in an equally advanced state of disintegration, it seemed to 
me at that time that migrating to yet another vendor of storage 
appliances (such as Synology) would be more risk than I was willing to 
take, so I bought what is in the industry called a JBOD (Just a Bunch Of 
Disks), and set it up with ZFS RaidZ3 and a 10 GB/sec LAN connection. I 
have a Supermicro-based DIY with a dozen 18-TB Seagate Exos SATA-III 
drives, running FreeBSD 14. I've had it up and running for about a year, 
and I'm happy with it. If I didn't know how to build things like this, I 
would have moved to Synology.

I've also been watching Synology, and it looks to be sound, stable, and 
long-lived. My only worry would be that the company is based in Taiwan, 
and China has been acting strangely about Taiwan.

From reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us  Mon May 20 04:21:55 2024
From: reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us (Brian Reid)
Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 21:21:55 -0700
Subject: [Leica] Sunday Shot
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I'm pretty sure that is a purple anemone,
see, e.g. 
https://www.easytogrowbulbs.com/products/anemone-lord-lieutenant?variant=27296374918

On 2024-05-19 20:57, Bernard Quinn via LUG wrote:
> Judy?s garden holds several mysteries. One of them is these blue
> flowers. I have no idea what they are. I wish that I had taken notes
> rather than trying to rely on my fairly fallible memory. I do know
> that they are very loyal however. They live by the back door and early
> every single spring they bloom. Without fail.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Barney/Blue+Flower.jpeg.html
> 
> Comments and Criticisms Welcome!

From reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us  Thu May 23 04:09:47 2024
From: reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us (Brian Reid)
Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 21:09:47 -0700
Subject: [Leica] [Leica} Tina's Drobos...
In-Reply-To: <dff568af-3bd2-4dc2-ae8d-f0d989b151fe@gmail.com>
References: <3129A994-8017-45D2-B6B7-3F9343EAF4DA@mac.com>
 <84652F2B-4D83-4AAA-95BD-F7F404AB28B5@gmail.com>
 <656a1dbe-44ba-45a7-b8dd-83179ae6c867@gmail.com>
 <dff568af-3bd2-4dc2-ae8d-f0d989b151fe@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <9e1ce8c249671f5993749938ad4c3483@mejac.carlsbad.ca.us>

Frank, you are a hero.

On 2024-05-21 23:08, Frank Filippone via LUG wrote:
> The new NAS is installed and working.? The balance of the work is to
> transfer the files.
> 
> From Drobo to Synology directly will take some time.... Right now, it
> is transferring at the rate of around 2TB per 12 hours....
> 
> Tina has almost 38TB to transfer.... If I could speed it up I would,
> but for now, that is it.
> 
> Only another 10 days... of CONSTANT 24/7 data transfer.
> 
> Which means I will be lucky to be done in 2-3 weeks.? Well, if I do
> not mess up....
> 
> These are being copied.... using the NAS to do all the work,
> 
> And then I will optimize her entire system for speedier and more
> efficient operation.
> 
> 
> Frank Filippone
> BMWRed735i at Gmail.com
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Leica Users Group.
> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information

From reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us  Wed May 29 17:43:17 2024
From: reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us (Brian Reid)
Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 10:43:17 -0700
Subject: [Leica] Looking for Advice: I have an M9 - it's 2024 - should I
 consider upgrading to an M11?
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> Since I keep getting older (
> the alternative is not good!), the weight of the camera bag has been a
> constant problem... aches and pains and bad back or/and knees all cry
> out for Ibuprofen and a lighter camera bag.

This is exactly why I switched from an M9 to a Q2. Also my eyes aren't 
as good a they once were, and the Q2 has good autofocus,