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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 b3lvedere »

glauber wrote: post #78
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.)

How to backup iCloud photos? I have an iPhone and Windows as desktop.

I use the File Explorer Pro App on iPhones and iPads to occasionaly backup all the albums to a NAS. It also has many other useful features i use from time to time.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fe-file-explorer-pro/id4994701...

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

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Post by neop1x »

abwizz wrote: post #272
fletchowns wrote: post #194

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I found that SyncThing is not a great solution for the "mobile photo reel" use case. I want my entire photo collection to be easily searchable & accessible from my mobile device, but I don't need a complete copy of my photo reel to be saved to my device. I want to be able to delete things from my phone to free up space, but I want them to still exist in my photo collection that is backed up to the cloud.

> but I don't need a complete copy of my photo reel to be saved to my device this resonates with me. what solution are you using?

I use Les Pas with NextCloud. It is quite a good, usable combination.

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Post by jrasm91 »

djbusby wrote: post #19
Saris wrote: post #9

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In addition to the mobile app which works like google photos and backs up photos you take automatically, you can also: - Upload via the webUI - Import a folder of photos on the host (copies photos to the Immich directory) - Add a folder of photos on the host (leaves photos in place)

I didn't see the PlayStore link from their site. I do find it when searching manually.

Added.

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

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Post by dangus »

mulmen wrote: post #340
dangus wrote: post #337

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I repeat myself: focus your mind on the value, or the problem the customer is looking to solve. Data locality isn’t a problem, it’s an implementation choice or detail. The problem is something like: “I need to keep my family photos/files safe” or “I need to store customer orders and data” or “I need a way to protect my data when I drop my phone in the toilet.” Even giant companies with eye-watering IT budgets see the…

Home hosting protects from institutional threats like governments, TLAs, and LEO. Cloud providers can’t offer that. They’re a huge target and it’s an open secret they are compromised. Apple even tried to pitch that as a feature . And they’re the leaders in privacy! It’s easy to reason about data locality. I can have a literal social network of just my actual friends and no tech company gets to spy on it. Cloud backup…

Wow! Those institutional threats sound pretty sophisticated. I’m sure the average self-hosting solution is prepared for adversaries like that, and when agents come knocking on my door I’ll just tell them “no hard drives here!”

You know, with such a scary and complex network of online adversaries and government agencies, I wonder if I could pay someone else to manage that risk for me. My business is selling online greeting cards for pets and I don’t really specialize in network security and data protection.

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Post by bombela »

bostonvaulter2 wrote: post #152
bombela wrote: post #53

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+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?

I use duplicity and a pub/priv key pair.

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Post by Jedd »

scarface_74 wrote: post #131
Jedd wrote: post #97

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> When I take a picture with my phone, it automatically gets backed up to iCloud, Google Photos, OneDrive, and Amazon Photos (free with prime). If you delete a photo on your phone, does it automatically get deleted from all those services in near-realtime? Do you have an archive solution in place (distinct from your lack of a backup solution)?

I don’t want it to be synced . I want my pictures and videos to be backed up . I have 2TB on iCloud, 2TB on Google Drive, unlimited back up of photos on Amazon Drive and 1TB on OneDrive. When my OneDrive account gives out of space, I’ll just use one of the other 6 accounts that come with an Office 365 subscription. I guess for an archive solution, I would use my personal AWS account that’s only used to store my video…

Yeah, I get your intent, but I think there's some conflation of backup and sync.

Here's a hypothetical - imagine you deleted a photo from your phone, and then modified (in place) a different photo.

Is your expectation that the first would be deleted from the various places you have it backed-up? (If not, then what's your process for fully destroying a photo?)

Would the second be propagated to each of your SaaS storage providers overwriting the existing, or renamed and situated adjacent to the original? And if you modified it in-place a second time?

If your phone were then to stop working and needed replacing, would the restoration process restore your phone to before, or after, the above deletions / changes were made? ie. would the deleted photo exist on your phone, would the second photo be pre, mid, or post modifications?

(I draw the distinction between backups and archives whereby backups get you to where you were most recently (pre incident), and archives let you restore to something like 'Tuesday afternoon, two weeks ago'. I'm talking here purely about backups vs sync though.)

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Post by scarface_74 »

Jedd wrote: post #346
scarface_74 wrote: post #131

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I don’t want it to be synced . I want my pictures and videos to be backed up . I have 2TB on iCloud, 2TB on Google Drive, unlimited back up of photos on Amazon Drive and 1TB on OneDrive. When my OneDrive account gives out of space, I’ll just use one of the other 6 accounts that come with an Office 365 subscription. I guess for an archive solution, I would use my personal AWS account that’s only used to store my video…

Yeah, I get your intent, but I think there's some conflation of backup and sync. Here's a hypothetical - imagine you deleted a photo from your phone, and then modified (in place) a different photo. Is your expectation that the first would be deleted from the various places you have it backed-up ? (If not, then what's your process for fully destroying a photo?) Would the second be propagated to each of your SaaS stora…

My iCloud backups yes. The others - no.

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Post by scarface_74 »

gsich wrote: post #338
scarface_74 wrote: post #76

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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.

>I have absolutely no desire to manage my own backup. So you have no backup.

What are the chances that Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Google all lose my photos?

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Post by fletchowns »

dvdkon wrote: post #307
ohthehugemanate wrote: post #294

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I have the same need... I use Nextcloud for many things (including photo upload) but I can't stand their photos app. I use photoprism for the photos app and I love it.

Maybe you'd like the third-party Memories add-on? By the way, how do you share files between Nextcloud and Photoprism? It's my biggest problem with NC, it's hard to share files with other apps.

I just have the same directory mounted to both my Nextcloud & Photoprism containers. They both operate with a normal directory of files on the file system, so I just have them both use the same directory to store data.

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Post by Jedd »

scarface_74 wrote: post #347
Jedd wrote: post #346

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I get your intent, but I think there's some conflation of backup and sync. Here's a hypothetical - imagine you deleted a photo from your phone, and then modified (in place) a different photo. Is your expectation that the first would be deleted from the various places you have it backed-up ? (If not, then what's your process for fully destroying a photo?) Would the second be propagated to each of your SaaS stora…

My iCloud backups yes. The others - no.

Great, so it sounds like we agree then.
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