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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 jrm4 »

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?

Big fan of PiGallery3. Looks like pretty much any "native phone" gallery and respects folders, which is pretty much all I need.

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

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Post by dangus »

post-it wrote: post #128
anderspitman wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why does it need to be a new separate physical device, instead of just software installed on an old phone or laptop?

Because nobody outside of HN is going to install software on an old phone or laptop. But they'll buy a $30 Box. By all means the software will be open-source (and mostly off-the-shelf if possible) so anyone can install it on whatever device they have, but the killer product will be the Box.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSZOf9pyepc

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

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Post by barkerja »

altano wrote: post #132
TimLeland wrote: post #124

I wish Google Photos UI was better but it still seems to be the best solution. Hosting something like this seems like it would cost more time/money/frustration than its worth. On the other hand, I always think its awesome to see self hosted solutions! It helps to create competition.

Google Photos isn't a lossless backup

https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6220791?hl=en&ref_t...

According to this support article, you can store original quality. Assuming that is what you meant by "lossless".

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

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Post by smarkov »

TimLeland wrote: post #124

I wish Google Photos UI was better but it still seems to be the best solution. Hosting something like this seems like it would cost more time/money/frustration than its worth. On the other hand, I always think its awesome to see self hosted solutions! It helps to create competition.

> Hosting something like this seems like it would cost more time/money/frustration than its worth.

If you've never self hosted anything there is indeed a large initial time and money investment. However, going through it once it pays itself off in the long run and adding additional services or maintaining existing ones becomes trivial.

Actually owning your data and having full control over it without worrying who it might be shared with or how it might be used is absolutely worth the hassle for some people.

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

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Post by irjustin »

altano wrote: post #132
TimLeland wrote: post #124

I wish Google Photos UI was better but it still seems to be the best solution. Hosting something like this seems like it would cost more time/money/frustration than its worth. On the other hand, I always think its awesome to see self hosted solutions! It helps to create competition.

Google Photos isn't a lossless backup

It is if you pay which makes sense but it's true it's not obvious

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

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Post by tempestn »

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?

I use owncloud, though I also use the low-res tier of google photos for easy access and their automated slideshows and such.

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

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Post by agentgumshoe »

scarface_74 wrote: post #76
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?

I have absolutely no desire to manage my own backup. When I take a picture with my phone, it automatically gets backed up to iCloud, Google Photos, OneDrive, and Amazon Photos (free with prime). When I had a personal computer, photos would sync to my computer and get backed up to BackBlaze also.

Why so many?

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

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Post by dboreham »

Roritharr wrote: post #115
kodah wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Call me old fashioned, but I just don't feel confident in placing my valuable data only with a provider like Google. One day there will be an "Ooopsee, we found a bug in our hash function (refactored by summer intern) and um...data for 'a very small number' of users was backed up to the /dev/null shard..."
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