Oh I would love to be able to get rid of iCloud and host my own version but I'm guessing the integration for this is not possible on iOS?
There's an iPhone app
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
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder if these services will ever reach mass adoption. I consider myself to be technological advanced, but other than niche photographer, i wonder if 99.99 % of population would ever go through the effort of setting such a service ?
I dream of selling a Box that plugs into the wall that backs up all of your photos and videos and maybe acts as an ActivityPub server, and you can add your friends who also have a Box, and your friends' Boxes back up all of your photos and vice versa. The added benefit of integrating federated social media is that if you want to share a file with your friends, there's zero load time because the file is already backed…
Gavin Belson had the right vision after all.
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#83Has anyone tried setting this up on a raspberry pi 4?
I used it on a Pi 4 for a month or two. Everything else was fine but the pi was really starting to struggle running the machine learning container, especially when I imported a bunch of photos at once. I have it on a beefier x86 machine now and things have been smooth.
Re: Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone
#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder if these services will ever reach mass adoption. I consider myself to be technological advanced, but other than niche photographer, i wonder if 99.99 % of population would ever go through the effort of setting such a service ?
I dream of selling a Box that plugs into the wall that backs up all of your photos and videos and maybe acts as an ActivityPub server, and you can add your friends who also have a Box, and your friends' Boxes back up all of your photos and vice versa. The added benefit of integrating federated social media is that if you want to share a file with your friends, there's zero load time because the file is already backed…
Like https://umbrel.com/ ? (no affiliation)
Re: Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder if these services will ever reach mass adoption. I consider myself to be technological advanced, but other than niche photographer, i wonder if 99.99 % of population would ever go through the effort of setting such a service ?
I dream of selling a Box that plugs into the wall that backs up all of your photos and videos and maybe acts as an ActivityPub server, and you can add your friends who also have a Box, and your friends' Boxes back up all of your photos and vice versa. The added benefit of integrating federated social media is that if you want to share a file with your friends, there's zero load time because the file is already backed…
Honestly I think Apple has a good model for this. The value would be in making the box plug-and-play. Apple has proven people will pay a premium for devices that Just Work. It could still be built on open software. Some kind of a cross between Apple’s opinionated approach to defaults and RedHat’s pay-for-support model of developing open source software.
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#86I 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.)
But no iOS client
Re: Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder if these services will ever reach mass adoption. I consider myself to be technological advanced, but other than niche photographer, i wonder if 99.99 % of population would ever go through the effort of setting such a service ?
I dream of selling a Box that plugs into the wall that backs up all of your photos and videos and maybe acts as an ActivityPub server, and you can add your friends who also have a Box, and your friends' Boxes back up all of your photos and vice versa. The added benefit of integrating federated social media is that if you want to share a file with your friends, there's zero load time because the file is already backed…
Why does it need to be a new separate physical device, instead of just software installed on an old phone or laptop?
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#88> Do not use the app as the only way to store your photos and videos!
You shook not have only one backup ever. But this project says this in the context of not being production ready. So at least I won’t play with it with my personal photos and videos.
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#89I'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
I do believe they apply extra compression to images shared via this method sadly, but haven't had time to double check.
Re: Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
I dream of selling a Box that plugs into the wall that backs up all of your photos and videos and maybe acts as an ActivityPub server, and you can add your friends who also have a Box, and your friends' Boxes back up all of your photos and vice versa. The added benefit of integrating federated social media is that if you want to share a file with your friends, there's zero load time because the file is already backed…
Like https://umbrel.com/ ? (no affiliation)
Wow, yes. That. Do you have one?