- use git-annex-assistant to create backups on several destinations
- use test-repo first, do some tests
- try on smaller directories w/ actually valuable data, create backups first
- annex-ize several other directories
- remove picture-backup from external HDD to make space for new backup via git annex (very bad ida)
- annex-ize several GB of pictures dating back to 2004 (RAWs and JPGs)
- fail somehow several times, remove .git directory start anew
- (do some other stuff)
- get back to the picture-dir, realize that it is empty (besides some folders), .git directory contains nothing
- use ntfsundelete, and some proprietary tools to recover (only marked as) deleted files from the ntfs volume (900 GB)
- use git annex fsck on the recovered .git data, get only some pictures back, not very much (about 2k files)
- use photorec on several runs to recover .jpg and .cr2 (RAW) data
- try to use picasa on the files to get some sorting (and kick out unwanted data as images from games etc.)
- picasa somehow mangles the raw-files :(
- picasa does not properly use the exif-provided file-creation date, but a mixture of that and the files’ date w(
- fiddle around with exiftool to get back the timestamp from the files’ exif-data
find . -type f -name "*.jpg" -exec exiftool -FileModifyDate\<DateTimeOriginal {} \; - try digikam
- somehow works
- slow on previews when using ‘import from files’
- slow on DB handling
- hangs itself when moving about 6k (?) files from one folder to another
- switch to MySQL as backend
- somehow fail, try google
- realize that the internal MySQL server won’t do, install external one
- use ‘settings’->’Database migration’ before switching via the config
- speed is better
- use the duplicate detection to remove redundant files (takes time …)