Thank you for your reply.

Which Model exactly? 3B+? 4?

The one I have is an RPi4

How much RAM?

It is the 1Gb model. It was purchased at the beginning of the pandemic (April 2020) and all I needed from the RPi4 was to be able to run gphoto2.

a small number of users (1-3) works for most applications.

I would be the only user, on a desktop, a laptop and an iphone.

You might need to use a USB Hub with external Power supply if the HDD uses to much power for the pi USB ports.

This might be the downside of the project. An array of cables connecting the RPi to the external drive, the powerbank and the display plus the USB dongle for the mouse/keyboard seem too much. The intervalometer had that same problem.

I would recommend to take a look at Immich

The Requirements page asks for a minimum of 4GB, while recommending 6GB. There might be a problem there :(

It looks like the alternative is a Canadian storage provider, using NextCloud on the desktop under Fedora. All this because Proton does not have a Linux app.

Thanks

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Thanks

I would rather have all synchronized data on external drives. Would syncthing allow me to work on USB hard drives?

Thanks for your reply. I do have the eventual video taken in between pictures. The way this is going, I might back up 1 or 2 Gb at first, to see how it all works out.

I will be using an external hard drive for the backup.

The backup is on an external hard drive. I wouldn’t trust an SD card for this. Thanks.

Thanks. You are correct, they are the same thing. What I meant was the OS needs an upgrade.

Thank you. I am reading their Q&A forum, realizing that the price of what I intend to do will be blood and tears. That’s fine. We like it that way.

How do I do this? Is it explained in the user’s manual?

What do you do with the time you save by typing “cuz” instead of “because”?

Hopefully gphoto2 will run in this. It would make a less bulky intervalometer than the one I built with a raspberry pi and an attachable display.