Managing photo importation on a Synology NAS with exiftool.

I regularly import photos I've taken while out and about into my photo library on my Synology NAS so I decided to automate the process using Exiftool and a scheduled task on my Synology NAS. Firstly it requires the use of Exiftool, A handy utility that I use to "pull" the Exif data from photos...

Hosting a Photoslibrary file on a Network share.

I have a rather large Photo Library, and it's only getting bigger. Having a rather tight budget I do my best to keep my investments in software to a minimum where possible, which I why I am such a believer in "FOSS" products. In the case of photo management, or "digital asset management", I've decided...

ZFS Disk Array perfomance and my changing requirements.

I recently upgraded the disks in my array from 4x1TB Drives to 4x2TB drives. This was mostly out of consideration of the age of the disks, I had a long term smart warning about two bad sectors on one of the drives. this count didn't increase for over a year and I wasn't too concerned...

Backing up my large photo collection locally and to the cloud.

So by now you probably know I have a rather large collection of photographs and they are managed and stored on a local NAS in my office. This is all well and good, but as the Industry mantra goes "RAID is not a backup". So I need to make duplicate copies of the data I...

How I manage my music collection on MacOS.

After yesterday's Post regarding photo management I might release my inner pedant once more and explain my music management workflow. For a long time my music collection was chaotic and messy, anything but organised. I decided to do something about it a while back, here's my current solution. My process is relatively straight forward. I...

My photography Workflow using a Mac.

I have a rather pedantic nature when it comes to sorting and storing my Photos. After a recent, and very generous series of donations from friends and strangers I upgraded my camera body to an OM-D E-M1 Mk2. A rather good camera indeed. Now on to the nuts and bolts of my workflow. Step one:...

Upgrading/replacing the hard drive in a mid-2010 iMac.

I recently had the task of replacing the hard drive in a mid-2010 iMac 27". Replacing the hard drive is easy: Remove the glass facade with suction cup(s). I use a plunger. Place somewhere safe. Remove the eight screws holding in the display. Lean the display forward, reaching into the machine to remove the four...

Working with ZFS snapshots on Debian and Openmediavault

I have a small Gen 7 HP Microserver that has some age on it but does its job rather well. This model below. Here is a link to its PDF quick spec sheet for those that are interested. I'm running a product called openmediavault that runs on top of Debian 7. Openmediavault (AKA: OMV) has...