Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2024/07/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, I am happy. Frank has been invaluable in setting up this new system which we have called BigMama. BigMama is now running on her own and being backed up regularly. I can find any file in seconds and LR has gotten used to the new filing system, too. I don't anticipate any problems as long as I leave everything alone and let it do its thing. If I do run into problems, Frank says he will be there to help as long as needed. I'm hoping he has a long, healthy life!! Tina On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 5:48?PM Frank Filippone via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > The project is done. Tina now has a new, working library of her images > on her NAS. I have turned over the NAS to her to use as she see fit. I > will do the ongoing maintenance of it as required. > > It is now organized into a simple to use seamless storage space of one > big HDD. or so it looks to her. All her images are stored by country > and in alphabetic order. This is in contrast to the before, when all > the images were scattered in multiple HDD, and she woud install whatever > HDD she needed to get to images form this or that country. It is a > massive step forwards. > > The reason I am writing this is to warn you that it is not as easy as it > looks... and that there are a lot of considerations to be made that are > techie.... and some pitfalls... > > It really is a straightforward operation... Setup the new box, copy all > files there, done. > > The one thing I learned was that there are more considerations to be > made, and you should think those through first, rather than in the > middle of the conversion. ( I will cop to the fact that the long time > of doing this project was because I did not check out all the items > needed, and needed to repeat several operations as I ran into dead ends. > > How nerdy are you? To run a NAS, and especially in this instance to > MAINTAIN it..... will require a different pool of knowledge than the > average home computer hack. It runs differently.... it requires some > different thinking.... NAS also has its own language.... (Nerd?) Its > own programs. If you are not comfortable with that, get something > different.... or get your IT person at work to help you.... > > If you have spare HDD you wish to include in your NAS, you should figure > out the SMALLEST one... then install that one into the original array, > and use SHR Raid array design. That allows you to use different HDD > sizes and use all of the available space on each.... If you wait till > you are done, then try to install the smaller HDD, it will not accept it > as additional storage. ( Larger, yes, smaller, NO) > > Backup of the NAS.... the easiest way ( Synology based ) is to use > Hyperbackup and an external HDD array. ( means external USB HDD.) > > So plug one into the NAS, setup the SW, and life is good..... > > Until it is time to do your BackBlaze off site backup.... which will NOT > WORK with NAS storage, even for the USB connected HDD you use for backup > locally, for their $99/year cheapie plan..... Off to Amazon to get a > USB switch. It is a push button affair that switches your USB backups > fro m the back side of your NAS to the Computer, which BackBlaze will > accept. When your BB backup is done, push the switch again, and back it > goes to the NAS. Not totally elegant, but it works. There is a more > elegant automatic programmed solution, but that requires a $700 piece of > hardware to replace the $20 switch. Plus some fairly esoteric > programming and messing around with your computer. > > NAS requires *wired Ethernet.* There is really no way around this. > There are a few cheats.... and caveats....This can be done using a > simple wireless repeater (slows down the work, but is cheap and easy) > or a wire, which is fast, but might mean tearing into the walls to run. > If you have your computer already WIRED to the Internet, you could use > an Ethernet switch box ($20) and also meet this requirement. > > The only reasons to go to a NAS is if you are a computer geek and like > to play with this stuff, you are in a real networked environment with > multiple users ( read that as in an OFFICE environment), or you just > have so many images or records and you need fast access to any one of > them 24/7. > > If it were me, and I had less developed computer knowledge, my best > suggestion is to use a big, USB HDD array... up to 8 HDD in a single > box for around $300. > > HDD extra. > > And with that, I will no longer be telling you about Tina's NAS. She > appears happy. That is all I wanted to accomplish. > > Mission Success! > > Frank Filippone BMWRed735i at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- https://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/index https://pbase.com/tinamanley