Phingester

Ingest your photos from attached devices automatically onto a disk.

Features

Scans a directory periodically for mounted devices that look like camera memory cards
Copies files to target directory while trying to avoid collisions
Optionally changes owner
Minimal memory footprint (less than 5 MB)

Requirements

rsync
Go (only for compiling, not necessary on target)

Build using go build. If you want to cross compile, use GOOS=freebsd GOARCH=amd64 go build (substitute freebsd for target operating system and amd64 for target architecture).

Configuration

All configuration can be performed using environmental variables:

PHINGESTER_SCANPATH= "/media"                 // the path that will be searched for camera memory cards
PHINGESTER_DEST=     "$HOME/phingester_media" // target path where files will be copied to
PHINGESTER_OWNER=    ""                       // optional, if set, copied files will belong to this user

Platform Specific Remarks

FreeBSD Setup

You'll need autofs for automatic mounting of USB devices. Ensure that you have /media -media -nosuid in /etc/auto_master. Ensure that autofs is enabled in /etc/rc.conf: autofs_enable="YES".

Start autofs immediately by running:

/etc/rc.d/automount start
/etc/rc.d/automountd start
/etc/rc.d/autounmountd start

For more details about autofs, see https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-from-the-trenches-using-autofs-5-to-mount-removable-media.50831/