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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 scarface_74 »

agentgumshoe wrote: post #149
scarface_74 wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

iCloud - comes with the Apple One subscription and also for iOS backups

OneDrive - I have an Office365 subscription

Amazon Photos - free with Amazon Prime

Google Drive - inertia and it still has the best search. I had it when it was free, unlimited storage

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

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Post by bostonvaulter2 »

bombela wrote: post #53
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.)

+1 syncthing too. Over the years it has gotten rock solid for me. I use it between all my machines and phone. With various 1 to many, 1 to 1 and one way or two way sync. One of my machine is always on and is backuped to the cloud everyday. Effectively making a backup of all my devices at once. Better yet, since syncthing can also save staggered copies of modified files, a rm -rf * will be synced but the backup machin…

Sounds like a nice setup! How are you backing up from syncthing to the cloud? Are your backups encrypted?

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

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Post by perryizgr8 »

I've tried Immich and it is surprisingly polished. Compared to photoprism it is so much better just because of the nice mobile app.

However I have held off on moving to it because it wants to assume control of all media and store them again. So I would be using up 2x the space required.

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

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Post by kenmacd »

danparsonson wrote: post #134
pickingdinner wrote: post #23

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.

If you have your own server somewhere, Nextcloud is a very nice free self-hostable Dropbox replacement. To your third point, I scratched my head and looked suspiciously at Docker from a distance for years, but since I've started playing with it, I absolutely love it and would not go back. Every dependency that you need is wrapped up in a single image, so installing the application is as simple as pulling the image an…

While containers solve a lot of problems, they do create a bunch of new problems. For example that 'every dependency' is a double-edged sword. Now instead of just one version of OpenSSL on my host I have a bunch. Half them are vulnerable, and none of them share the same memory.

Personally I'm looking forward to when this is included in Nix so I get a ephemeral/reproducible install that doesn't add a second copy of both postgres and ngingx.

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

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Post by entropy47 »

irjustin wrote: post #147
altano wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google Photos isn't a lossless backup

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

I think you can get lossless for the first 15 (?) GB for free.

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

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Post by entropy47 »

smarkov wrote: post #146
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…

I worry about catastrophic data loss. Even at Google scale you hear stories of things going wrong and they have to resort to off-site offline storage; for stuff like photos of my kids, I just don't trust myself, the SW provider, hardware etc to sufficiently insulate me from something crazy going wrong. It only needs to happen once.

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

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Post by pj_mukh »

altran1502 wrote: post #119
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 :)

Awesome! Looking forward to it!

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

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Post by progman32 »

anotherevan wrote: post #113

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 bac…

Putting my hat in this ring, too. I do a write-only sync of pictures from my phone to my NAS (upload new files and leave them on the phone - I prefer one way sync), and a mailbox-style sync of Signal backups (Signal can be configured to drop a backup file into a specified folder; I've configured FolderSync to upload whatever it finds there weekly and delete the backup locally). Finally, I do a two-way sync of my personal notes text file.

I don't have a good situation figured out for browsing unsorted uploaded photos, and I find that this is fine for my usage. I put a curated set of personal albums on a password protected personal site for friends and family. I enjoy the role of family chronicler.

My NAS is backed up via daily snapshot to a remote location.

YMMV!

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