Simple and Fast Data Migration and Storage Expansion

Simple and Fast Data Migration and Storage Expansion

Recently, a user encountered an issue where their original storage disk was full and wanted to directly migrate data from their existing PI server to a Windows server while expanding the storage disk. Let’s explore the fastest way to migrate and expand data, and this guide can also be used for data recovery. This article uses Windows as an example, but the process is similar for other platforms.

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Set WD MyCloud as Lomorage redundancy backup disk on Windows

Setup WD MyCloud as Lomorage Redundancy backup disk on Windows.

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Deploy NPS tunnel service on fly.io for Lomorage remote access

What is NPS

NPS is a tunnel service similar with Ngrok, it’s a reverse proxy used to access local service behind the NAT/Firewall. If you are running self-hosted service like Lomorage at home, and you are outside and want to access Lomorage, then you can use NPS.

However NPS need to run somewhere with public access, there are lots of service providers there, fly.io has a free plan without binding any credit card, and it supports docker deployment, and the servers runs in datacenters around the world so that the service can be deployed close to the users.

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PhotoPrism meets Lomorage: The best Google Photos alternative

PhotoPrism is an Open Source AI Photo Management tool, and it works very well along with Lomorage.

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Small image compression size comparison between Jpeg and Webp

Motivation

Lomorage is free private photo cloud solution that puts you in control of your photos and videos. To get best user experience among different platforms, such as iOS, Android, web, it utilizes smaller size thumbnail image to allow the clients to load image faster initially.

At the same time, unlike desktop applications, mobile clients have limited storage, and a good mobile application should take it into consideration and provide better user experience while require system resources as little as possible. Thus, we need a image format which has better compression performance and is widely adopted by majority browsers and native clients.

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Turn your old android tablet to lomorage photo frame

I have and old android tablet at home, how to turn it to as photo frame to display my pictures?

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Run Lomoage Docker in Windows 10

Though Lomorage already provide Windows Native MSI package, But if you like to run Docker image in Windows, please follow below steps to do so. Esp. on Windows Server, Docker can leverage the Windows HYPER-v technology，and let the Lomorage running faster. If you do not know what is Docker, you also can download the native Lomorage installer for Windows, Download Lomorage Windows Installer。

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Move MyCloud to Lomorage

I have ever bought one MyCloud 6T storage to save my photos and videos, but you know, the My Cloud app is not good to use, so everything I have to connect to my phone with USB cable, and keep the computer on to copy the files to MyCloud disk. Now let me introduce how to import / move MyCloud data to Lomorage.

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Setup Covid-19 dashboard using Raspberry Pi

It’s hard time for everyone, covid-19 is spreading the world, even though you can easily getting the news on your finger tips, it still helpful to setup a dedicated dashboard to show the statistics and relating news of covid-19. The following gives step by step guide to customize your covid-19 dashboard using Raspberry Pi.

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Setup Lomorage secondary backup with Raspberry Pi

Photos and video are valuable assets, having a single backup is not enough, we at least should have secondary backup besides the primary backup, and ideally one more remote backup. Lomorage currently provide the option to setup a secondary backup. There are several options to do this.

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