meine Migrationsstrategie:
a) LibreOffice auf Windows 10 Rechner installieren und etwas üben lassen
b) Daten zusammen suchen und backupen
c) Windows platt machen und durch Linux ersetzen
d) 1-2h den neuen Desktop erklären
e) Backup Strategie erklären
Der vorhandene Drucker kann ein Problem sein...
NEW BLOG:
RSYNC Made Easy: Copy and Sync Files Without Losing Data
https://sajidmahmood.com/rsync-made-easy/
#blog #linux #rsync #datatransfer #tools
@dendrobatus_azureus@polymaths.social @rl_dane
This is a screen cap of Standard Notes on Android
Of course it also has on Open Source Operating System clients
#Web #links #sync #rsync #Vim #VimMasterRace #Standard #Notes #programming #technology
If I need to synchronize between machines I use this program, Standard Notes, it's Open Source. For the rest I just open up vim.athena or vim.motif and put them in a .nfo file
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.standardnotes
#Web #links #sync #rsync #Vim #VimMasterRace #Standard #Notes #programming #technology
I was trying to sync music to an SD card exFat.
#rsync for some reason failed with ` failed: No such file or directory (2)`.
I then copied the files with Dolphin and it worked just fine and when I ran rsync again it didn't show any changes.
Very strange.
Migrating to kDrive from Flickr, Apple and Google Photo Clouds
Reading Time: 4 minutesAs I write this my consolidated photo album is being uploaded to kDrive, to serve as an offsite backup but the journey to this point took about two weeks, due in part to experimentation and learning to use various tools.
Tools I used
Work Flow
The first step is to request your data from Google Photos via the Google Takeout Tool, the Flickr Export tool for flickr, and to download all your photos locally from Apple Photos before disconnecting the local library from iCloud. Disconnecting Photos from iCloud gives you 30 days to realise you made a terrible mistake and fix it.
Export and organise
The next step is to unzip the Google Taekout files in one place, and the flickr export in another place. You want to keep the tree structure created by the zips for the next part.
Exiftool
Exiftools is a command line tool. Google Takeout and Flickr Export may detach metadata from your photos and add them to json files. Exiftools writes the exif data back into your photo files. If you ask Gemini or other AI solution for help it will provide you with the command you need to use. Request a dry run, and get the dry run to write to a text file to double check that it does what you expect.
Keep the zip files as they are. If you make a mistake it's good to have them on hand. Downloading 50 GB files from Google Takeout takes time.
With Flickr it's even more critical because Flickr generates 2gb files. I created a script to automatically download my 168 files.
Once you are happy that exiftool is behaving as expected you can run the command for real. Both of these steps take time so let them run in the background.
Google Takeout
Google takeout generates albums in three key ways, by individual names if you used face recognition, event name if you created an album, and by year, automatically. You will have two to three copies of some photos. In some directories you will only find json files.
When exiftool has run you can backup or delete the json files. If you have the zip files, then you're safe.
Flickr
When I expanded the Flickr zips it created a monoolithic directory with all the photos. I ran exiftools to marry json data with the photos.
Apple Photos
If you want to extract photos from Apple Photos quickly the quickest solution is to right click, show package contents, navigate to originals, and copy photos to another directory. You will need to use exiftool to create a directory where they are sorted by year, month day, and then you can run jdupe and add them to your main library.
Looking for Duplicates and Creating Chronological Libraries
With the data added by Exiftool we can now organise the photos chronologically. The issue is that we have event photos in albums, and the same event photos in the year folder. That's where jdupe comes in. It allows us to automatically compare photos within a directory before removing the duplicate copies.
Once this is done we can organise all the photos chronologically. This makes comparing photos much easier. It also adds a human accessible way of organising photos by year, month and day.
We repeat this step for Google Takeout and Flickr so that we end up with two clean chronological libraries.
The next step is to run jdupe again. This time we're comparing Flickr to Google Photos. The reason for this is that in an ideal world we have a perfect mirror, with both libraries being complete. In reality we might have interrupted payment to flickr, or Google photos so we have gaps. That's why we look for duplicates, before merging unique photos into our main photo library.
Tools such as rsync will help you merge the two libraries into the main library, as well as backup the clean library to a second hard drive on an external hard drive or on another device.
The kDrive migration
If you have not already done so, install the kDrive app and log in. Open the app and navigate to your library's folder and tell kdrive to sync the folder. It will then start copying the data to your cloud. Now you wait for it to be done.
Cleanup and Looking Forward
Once the main library is synced to kDrive I can delete two photos folders from kDrive and my local machine. I can tell kDrive on my phone to sync to the new library folder on kDrive.
That Synching Feeling
For now:
Photoprism and Immich Watching
Both Photoprism and Immich allow you to watch an import folder(photoprism) or external library (immich). If you set the main library as a watch folder then new photos uploaded to kdrive will be added to the main library, and photoprism and Immich will add them to their own libraries. Unselect the "move" option to keep the chronological library intact.
And Finally
With jdupe, exiftool and rsync you can go from having three photo libraries wittled down to just one. You can then tell kdrive desktop to watch and sync that folder. You can use rsync to mirror the library to two or three other drives and filesystems. I have APFS, APFS (case sensitive) and ext4. I also have an offsite backup via kDrive.
#Apple #exiftool #Google #infomaniak #jdupe #kdrive #photos #rsync #takeout
Bon, pour cette tâche CRON, j’ai une bonne et une mauvaise nouvelle.
La bonne nouvelle c’est que la task Rails me crée bien le fichier là où il faut.
La mauvaise nouvelle c’est que ça ne rsync pas le fichier sur le serveur depuis la tâche CRON.
J’ai testé de lancer la task à la main et ça envoie bien le fichier sur le serveur cible.
🤔
Why is --info=progress2 not the default for --progress of rsync?
And why is almost every #stackoverflow answer for how to copy a folder with a total progress bar incorrectly stating "rsync -Pa source destination"*
WTF?!?
*(with sometimes an additional "-h" sprinkled in)
In this small blog post I want to show how you can setup a backup task (Rsync Task) in TrueNAS while preserving the file permissions and ownership on the destination system.
https://hostlab.tech/blog/truenas-backup-while-preserving-file-permissions-and-ownersh
Two days later 🚀Version 1.6.1 of Back In Time is released🚀 adding some minor fixes.
🧪 Don't forget to read the release notes and changelog.
🔗 https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/releases/tag/v1.6.1
#backup #Linux #Debian #Ubuntu #Arch #rsync #OpenSource #FLOSS #FOSS #NewRelease #release
Rsync is an amazing piece of software. I needed it to delete after the transfer and already cobbled up a solution in my head when the man page came to the rescue:
--delete, --delete-before, --delete-during, --delete-delay, --delete-after are the options!
Someone already thought of everything!
Backups using Rsync and SSH
Back-In-Time (rsync) - heute ist Version 1.6 erschienen.
Größere Neuerung: Umstieg der Verschlüsselungsart. Lange Jahre EnfCS es - jetzt gocryptfs (alte verschlüsselte Archive wohl weiterhin lesbar).
Oberfläche unterstützt nun Qt6.
Stabilität soll verbessert sein.
🚀Version 1.6.0 of Back In Time is released today.🚀
🧪 Don't forget to read the release notes and changelog.
🔗 https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/releases/tag/v1.6.0
#backup #Linux #Debian #Ubuntu #Arch #rsync #OpenSource #FLOSS #FOSS #NewRelease #release
Explore Linux backup strategies using rsync, Borg, and restic. Learn configuration, security, best practices, and tool comparisons for reliable data protection and recovery.
https://dasroot.net/posts/2026/02/linux-backup-strategies-rsync-borg-restic/
RSync ( Divers 2026 )
Original : https://www.flickr.com/photos/miguel_discart/55073939208 - Author : Kiri Karma
#2026 #Belgium #Leuven #Rsync #Rsync2026
RSync ( Divers 2026 )
Original : https://www.flickr.com/photos/miguel_discart/55073941079 - Author : Kiri Karma
#2026 #Belgium #Leuven #Rsync #Rsync2026
