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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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Has anyone tried setting this up on a raspberry pi 4?

If you search the github page for the project, many have reported using a raspberry pi.

For example, here is an issue where a raspberry pi 4 is used. https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/611

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

#32
I really like Seafile for this functionality. I host my own server using podman to run their docker container and it works super well. Their app has the ability to back up any photos/videos taken on your phone, in addition to other things it can do. Highly recommend!

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

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post #32

I really like Seafile for this functionality. I host my own server using podman to run their docker container and it works super well. Their app has the ability to back up any photos/videos taken on your phone, in addition to other things it can do. Highly recommend!

Just curious, when people say selfhosted does it imply they control the hardware at their home? Or does buying a VM from an operator count as self hosting?

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

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post #32

I really like Seafile for this functionality. I host my own server using podman to run their docker container and it works super well. Their app has the ability to back up any photos/videos taken on your phone, in addition to other things it can do. Highly recommend!

Just curious, when people say selfhosted does it imply they control the hardware at their home? Or does buying a VM from an operator count as self hosting?

I would call both selfhosting.

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

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I prefer SyncThing on both mobile and desktop devices. It's open source and mature, the server only makes devices findable between each other. It allows 1 or 2 way sync. And it has advanced settings for keeping removed files (e.g. trashbin that cleans anything older than X days.)

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

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post #32

I really like Seafile for this functionality. I host my own server using podman to run their docker container and it works super well. Their app has the ability to back up any photos/videos taken on your phone, in addition to other things it can do. Highly recommend!

Just curious, when people say selfhosted does it imply they control the hardware at their home? Or does buying a VM from an operator count as self hosting?

It counts. My discriminator is the self- part. Server location is not relevant.

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

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post #35

I prefer SyncThing on both mobile and desktop devices. It's open source and mature, the server only makes devices findable between each other. It allows 1 or 2 way sync. And it has advanced settings for keeping removed files (e.g. trashbin that cleans anything older than X days.)

I love SyncThing and haven't even considered this as a use case! Thanks!

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

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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.

I’m currently using iCloud. It’s great, but the E2EE comes with the huge caveat that they scan your photos before encrypting, against a giant unaccountable database of hashes for bad stuff.

Even though I totally believe that the current set of hashes really does represent truly horrible stuff, I also suspect that it will expand over time to include anything that threatens those in power. In other words: they are coming for your Bernie memes.

So I would like to have a more secure option that doesn’t depend on the whims of the powerful to decide which images I’m allowed to own.

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

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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…

If you do, let me know how it goes. I've been working using photoprism, like it plenty, but would love a comparison.

Getting rid of all of the Google dependencies in my life is... Ugly. I would really like to still trust Google. I just can't anymore.

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