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Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone

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Re: Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone

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I've been looking for something like this. My wife and I each have a separate Apple Photos library. I'd love it if we could have a combined backup solution. Could we keep using Photos and back up to this, or would it be better to ditch Photos and just switch over?

Apple Photos actually supports a shared library now: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213248

Re: Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone

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This looks like something that I might use, but > Expect bugs and breaking changes. I get it's the pretty normal to go through fixing bugs, but for a backup solution the core of it should be stable or I would not use it

Try it. Adopt it. :) Just a few weeks ago, facial recognition was added and that was it for me. I finally made the switch from Google Photos and iCloud to immich. It's your self-hosted google photos alternative, with image recognition, a map, sharing folders publicly, or with other users on your server. Some parts will be buggy though, like face detection, or memories. But the whole "backup & sync" part is very relia…

I’m working on building something similar.

From what I can tell, Immich, Ente, and PhotoPrism are the best of the batch when it comes to open source photo storage and management. They are all good, but it depends on what you’re looking for.

Personally, I want: E2E encryption, on-device face recognition, and the ability to self-host as well as a paid option for people who don’t want to manage their own server. The existing options each hit about 90% of that, but it’s a different 90% for each one.

Re: Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone

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Try it. Adopt it. :) Just a few weeks ago, facial recognition was added and that was it for me. I finally made the switch from Google Photos and iCloud to immich. It's your self-hosted google photos alternative, with image recognition, a map, sharing folders publicly, or with other users on your server. Some parts will be buggy though, like face detection, or memories. But the whole "backup & sync" part is very relia…

I’m working on building something similar. From what I can tell, Immich, Ente, and PhotoPrism are the best of the batch when it comes to open source photo storage and management. They are all good, but it depends on what you’re looking for. Personally, I want: E2E encryption, on-device face recognition, and the ability to self-host as well as a paid option for people who don’t want to manage their own server. The exi…

Photoprism had the critical flaw of being single user last time I tried it, making it neat but a complete non starter for someone with a family larger than 1.

Re: Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone

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Trying to get off dropbox. 1) Anyone try Backblaze for photo backups? Is it worth trying? 2) Why is immich photo and video only? 3) Why docker? I miss the days of just files and scripts on any host.

1) It's storage with an S3 API, so should work fine, you just have to figure out how to manage and view the backups on your own.

2) It's a replacement for google photos.

3) Ease of use and flexibility, you can deploy a docker compose file easily on any host or distro without needing to deal with dependencies or OS specific glitches.

Re: Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try it. Adopt it. :) Just a few weeks ago, facial recognition was added and that was it for me. I finally made the switch from Google Photos and iCloud to immich. It's your self-hosted google photos alternative, with image recognition, a map, sharing folders publicly, or with other users on your server. Some parts will be buggy though, like face detection, or memories. But the whole "backup & sync" part is very relia…

I’m working on building something similar. From what I can tell, Immich, Ente, and PhotoPrism are the best of the batch when it comes to open source photo storage and management. They are all good, but it depends on what you’re looking for. Personally, I want: E2E encryption, on-device face recognition, and the ability to self-host as well as a paid option for people who don’t want to manage their own server. The exi…

iCloud photos has all of that except the self-host option. You may be aware - just saying as I didn't see it on your list, and the E2EE is somewhat new.

Re: Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone

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Trying to get off dropbox. 1) Anyone try Backblaze for photo backups? Is it worth trying? 2) Why is immich photo and video only? 3) Why docker? I miss the days of just files and scripts on any host.

>> 1) Anyone try Backblaze for photo backups? Is it worth trying?

Yes, happy customer for many years. Restored ~2GB of photos when a MacBook Pro motherboard completely died about 18 months ago.

Re: Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone

#30
I like the look of this. I'm currently using PhotoPrism[1] and PhotoSync[2] as a combo to get the same thing and whilst it works fine I've always thought a single app would be far better placed.

Looks relatively straightforward to get running, pretty much inline with what I had to do in order to get PhotoPrism running in the first place. Only thing I couldn't see anything about was hardware acceleration, do leverage any of the Intel instructions (VAAPI) for transcoding? That's a paid feature on PhotoPrism and something that's sorely needed. CPU bound transcoding is terrible!

Think I'll put this on the TODO list for the weekend!

[1]https://www.photoprism.app/ [2]https://www.photosync-app.com/home

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