Colin's Media Transfer Procedures

Photos/ rsync protocol

Transfer from External SSD to NAS from macOS:

Updated 20190414:

• Connect External SSD and ensure that it is mounted at /Volumes/ColinGarvey_T5
• Run ./rsync_exthdd_to_nas.py script which automatically:
• Mounts the Photos directory on the NAS
• Synchronizes Photos
• Synchronizes Videos (FCP)

Transfer from External HDD to NAS via USB port

1. Plug external HDD to NAS via USB
2. ssh to the nas while on LAN

ssh garveyc1@garveynas.lan

3. Locate the mounted directory via mount and look for keyword hfsplus

mount
.../dev/sdq2 on /volumeUSB1/usbshare1-2 type hfsplus (ro,relatime,creator=,type=,umask=0,uid=1024,gid=100,nls=utf8,caseless)

4. Grab the mountpoint which in this case is /volumeUSB1/usbshare1-2
5. Utilize the script at /volume1/Photos/bin/rsync-usb-ext-tonas.sh, updating the source variable as necessary.

Variables are defined in this script as:

SRC=/volumeUSB1/usbshare1-2/Photos
TGT=/volume1/Photos

Transfer from NAS to external HDD

1. Plug external HDD to mac
2. Run the rsync script - rsync-nas-to-exthdd.sh
3. Voila!