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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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Post by kodah »

barbazoo wrote: post #46
adr1an wrote: 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.)

Since this is upvoted so much, I wonder what people's complete setup is for something like this to replace, say, Google Photos. So once the photos are on a "server", what do people recommend for albums, sharing, metadata, geotagging, search, etc?

You don't. I currently run this setup and it's more for people who want to "definitely degoogle" more than they want feature parity with photos. This app is awesome, I intend on contributing if they need it, but it looks solid.

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

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Post by vxNsr »

sn0n wrote: post #18
jcul wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't used this, but it seems it has AI photo recognition stuff. So you can search for "fish" for example and it will show photos of fish. And apparently it has facial recognition, so you can find photos of a specific person by name. These are killer features of Google photos for me, so it is exciting to see them in a self hosted, open source offering. There is a demo linked on the GitHub page that I checked out:…

Nextcloud has face recognition iirc as well.

does nextcloud support livephotos from iOS?

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

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Post by anotherevan »

People have mentioned SyncThing and Seafile as straight backup options.

Another option one could consider is FolderSync[1]. It has a number of cloud back-ends it can interface with, but I use it to periodically SFTP to my home server to backup several areas in my phone, including photos, camera and app backups.

Two niceties for me it has:

* Two-way sync. I'll often clean up my camera roll on my PC, and that syncs back to the phone.

* Only attempts to connect to me home server if it is on my home wi-fi.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.andro...

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

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Post by vxNsr »

gsich wrote: post #39
Saris wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Due to machine learning / face recognition.

Picasa could do that too 2014, single threaded. (And is probably still better)

Picasa was ok, you needed to train it a bunch if you wanted good results for facial recognition, that being said, I did use it for our high school yearbook to make sure I had enough pics of everyone and once I'd trained it with enough photos it rarely made mistakes.

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

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Post by Roritharr »

kodah wrote: post #111
barbazoo wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since this is upvoted so much, I wonder what people's complete setup is for something like this to replace, say, Google Photos. So once the photos are on a "server", what do people recommend for albums, sharing, metadata, geotagging, search, etc?

You don't. I currently run this setup and it's more for people who want to "definitely degoogle" more than they want feature parity with photos. This app is awesome, I intend on contributing if they need it, but it looks solid.

I don't want to degoogle, but having all my photos hinging on a Google account that can more or less arbitrarily blocked by Google gives me anxiety. Google Takeout effectively destroys your data by stripping all metadata from the photos and putting them into a json file. I haven't found a good solution for regular backups of Photos, has anyone else?

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

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Post by vxNsr »

Saris wrote: post #63
gsich wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Picasa could do that too 2014, single threaded. (And is probably still better)

It does feel like we keep going backwards for functionality while resource requirements keep increasing. Picasa had face recognition, basic editing, and a bunch of sorting features and ran on computers that had something like 1/50th the CPU performance. Meanwhile modern replacements like DigiKam, Lightroom, ON1, and so on are incredibly bloated with very slow UI response even on a very powerful desktop PC. Although I…

which is odd, because nearly every modern cpu has some sort of hardware acceleration available for AI stuff... has the tech stack just become so convoluted that we're actually going backwards?

I do with they had OSS'ed the code for at least the desktop app, but maybe there were licensing issues? or just no one cared.

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

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Post by wanderingmind »

crossroadsguy wrote: post #92
adr1an wrote: 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.)

Something is absolutely unavailable on iOS. All these other apps I’ve tried just don’t work. I think it’s that mobile operating system’s problem. Probably the devs don’t want to play a game that they know is rigged.

MobiusSync[1], its an iOS client for syncthing. havent tested it myself, but worth giving it a shot [1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mobiussync/id1539203216

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

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Post by charles_f »

vineyardmike wrote: post #60
charles_f wrote: post #2

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

Considering it also says “still under active development. Don’t use this yet for backups” I think it’s pretty fair. It’s explicitly saying it’s not a backup solution.

It does, it's even in the title of this post..

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

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Post by altran1502 »

pj_mukh wrote: post #15

Hate to be that guy. But one final feature that Google photos has: Auto share photos of a certain face to an album that is shared with a group. Group is notified when new photos are added. This is CLUTCH for new parents. That being said, this is incredible and I’m definitely moving over the first chance I get.

Hey man, maintainer of the project here. This is one of the feature we are working toward, after getting the Facial Recognition some more loves and fine tunning :)

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

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Post by modeless »

ASalazarMX wrote: post #50
WirelessGigabit wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you using SyncThing on iOS?

AFAIK on iOS there's only Möbious Sync, which works well enough considering the restrictions iOS/iPadOS impose. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/m%C3%B6bius-sync/id1539203216

Yeah but it doesn't support syncing photos from the camera roll. So you have to use something else to copy photos from the camera roll to the mobius sync folder. I use the PhotoSync app for that, but it's not free and it's not that reliable. And the extra step adds even more latency to the whole pipeline. iOS allows these apps to run in the background only once per day generally, and so it can be several days before photos get all the way synced.

If this app can do background sync of the camera roll directly from iOS to an Android device in one step I may switch to it and stop using both Mobius Sync and Photosync.

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