My system came with Python3 installed. Debian 12.

Ah, Improvements!

Looks like a line by line translation from the python. Will you use it to backup your home directory?

@droolio@feddit.uk I see what you’re asking. You’re wondering if, instead of storing a duplicate file when another backup set already contains it, I could use a hardlink to point to the file already stored in that other set?

I have a system where I create a backup set for each day of the week. When I do a backup for that day, I update the set, or if it’s out of date, I replace it entirely with a fresh backup image (After 7 backups to that set). But if the backup sets became inter-dependent, removing or updating one set could lead to problems with others that rely on files in the first set.

Does that make sense? I am asking because I am not familiar with the utilities you mentioned and may be taking your post wrong.

Especially one that lets you know how long it’s been since you took time to run a backup, keeps track of which set of backups could be updated, and which should be refreshed, and keeps a log file up to date and in .csv format so you can mess with it in a spreadsheet?

That’s ok Like any landing you can walk away from. Any code that runs to spec is good, much could be better.

Yeah, no problem… I started out with just bare rsync - but I did the backup infrequently and needed my notes to know the command. Then I wrote a simple shell script to run the rsync for me. Then I decided I needed more than one backup, redundancy is good. Then I wanted to keep track of the backups so I had it write to .backuplog then that file started getting dated (every time I run a “sun” backup the record of the previous one is useless) so Finally TaDa! loci is born.

It’s also to help me learn python. And it works for me. : ^ )

They probably named it HORNET for a reason - think Japanese Murder Hornets… What Could Possibly Go Wrong??

It will probably start out as little glitches and slowdowns to destroy faith in your system (“Windows works right all the time”) a random 2 second pauses. Finally one day every Linux box in the world crashes, all at the same time, because some ‘dummy’ in Microsoft deleted the private signing key.

Between the kit lens and the body, probably the body. Between the telephoto and the body, maybe the telephoto.

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Thanks!

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Just as an aside, my Caonon EOS R50 seems to have something about WiFi in the setup - will that let me download pictures without the USB-C connection? (ie when I am home?)

Photo Sorting : Having your photos arranged by some criteria, I personally would like them sorted by the date and time they were taken. Ideally, folders for each year, containing folders for each month of that year, month folders have day folders in them, day folders will have media folders (If your media won’t hold a full day’s worth of shots). My new R50’s media hold over 3000 shots so I don’t think I will fill it up in one day.

I am trying shotwell right now - I would like to get my photos sorted by date captured into another folder. They are kind of random in one folder (“Transfer”) and there is an empty folder for something to build a directory structure in: A folder for each year, inside those a folder for each month, inside folders for each day, inside that are pictures. Shotwell seems to have them separated out into “events” but can it copy the existing pictures into the new folder, but sorted?

I generally do the same, except I only nuke the ones that were technically bad, many of my pictures are taken from a moving car with little warning so I don’t always get my subject anywhere near in frame - those go otherwise I want to really check the rest. They go in a folder that is named by the date the pictures were taken (20250309 for today’s) Then if I need to do things I try Gimp first. I just recently got rapid photo down loader too. Can it create/maintain folders for year/mo/day…?

There is also Workspace Behavior=>Screen Locking where one may set automatic screen lock, ( I uncheck both boxes )

At the moment I only shoot jpg because I have not yet figured out how to make use of a raw. everything I try gives me very strange solarized kind of colors.