How to copy photos to FreeNAS

[balanga]

One of the reasons I wanted to set up FreeNAS was to maintain a central repository of my wife's photos which she has hitherto kept on SDHC cards. I would like to copy all the cards to a FreeNAS share but am not sure of the best way of doing this...

Is there a guide for this sort of thing?

Ideally I'd like to insert the cards into a USB port and copy them from the command line but I'm not sure how to do that...

 

[pirateghost]

N.A.S.
Network Attached Storage

You get FreeNAS connected to your network, create your shares, and you use NETWORK protocols to communicate and store/retrieve files on it. SMB/CIFS/NFS/AFP/FTP/SCP/RSYNC.....pick your poison. Or you can even use Plex to upload your photos...

 

[Darren Myers]

Not sure if i would attempt to copy them directly to FreeNAS, i might copy all the SD card photo's to a computer, and from there i would connect to my FreeNAS server via CIFS, SMB, w/e it maybe. And then use Karens Replicator to copy my "photos directory" to my FreeNAS share.

 

[anodos]

One of the reasons I wanted to set up FreeNAS was to maintain a central repository of my wife's photos which she has hitherto kept on SDHC cards. I would like to copy all the cards to a FreeNAS share but am not sure of the best way of doing this...

Is there a guide for this sort of thing?

Ideally I'd like to insert the cards into a USB port and copy them from the command line but I'm not sure how to do that...

There is no advantage to doing this locally vs network. Your copy speed will almost certainly bottleneck on the sd-card or usb.

As far as setting up shares, please refer to freenas documentation at http://doc.freenas.org/. I also made a short cifs quick start guide here: https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...-of-how-to-configure-share-permissions.35276/

 

[DifferentStrokes]

Make sure you have a backup solution in place for your NAS. If you somehow lose all of her photos she might be a tadbit upset.

 

[anodos]

Make sure you have a backup solution in place for your NAS. If you somehow lose all of her photos she might be a tadbit upset.

QFT. Since it's your wife's photos you should look at multiple layers / methods of backups. There are some sorts of trouble you never want to be in.

 

[Robert Smith]

Do you have kids? If not, you can always get new wife.

Making a joke, but the point is that it is serious. As everybody else is saying: multiple backups.

 

[areis]

The first thing you should consider is Digital Asset Management software like Adobe Lightroom or Apple Aperture. Managing thousands of photos can become overwhelming very quickly.
The next step would be to import your photos into the management software and have it store them on your freenas server. You can do this by creating a dataset on the freenas server and then sharing it via the protocol of your choice (i.e. CIFS, AFP, etc...).

 

[anodos]

The first thing you should consider is Digital Asset Management software like Adobe Lightroom or Apple Aperture. Managing thousands of photos can become overwhelming very quickly.
The next step would be to import your photos into the management software and have it store them on your freenas server. You can do this by creating a dataset on the freenas server and then sharing it via the protocol of your choice (i.e. CIFS, AFP, etc...).

Or you can make the safe play and let her manage them however she wants, but just make sure they're backed up in a bajillion places. Once you touch how they're managed, you're assuming liability when something goes missing. :D

 

[Ericloewe]

Or you can make the safe play and let her manage them however she wants, but just make sure they're backed up in a bajillion places. Once you touch how they're managed, you're assuming liability when something goes missing. :D

This begs the philosophical question of whether a file lost among thousands of others, with no non-brute force option of locating it still exists, much like whether an encrypted file, once the key is lost, still exists.