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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 SanderNL »

matthiasb wrote: post #204

The recommended spec is 4 cores and 6GB. Running this 24/7 for a year in US where the carbon intensity is about 400 gCO₂eq/kWh would produce about 150kg of CO2 per user per year. I appreciate the intent of this project, but it is not a sustainable approach. If you are taking a couple of pictures a day, you only need to run this service for a couple of minutes per day, the rest is wasted. With Google Photos, as a SaaS…

Thanks for pointing out environmental considerations. These got swept under the rug for too long.

I'm not too comfortable pointing to the cloud providers for "efficiency", but you gotta go somewhere. I get that.

Personally I'm more a fan of building more efficient software (green software?). Using 6GB @ 4 cores to handle some media is a bit much IMO..

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

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Post by matthiasb »

the_common_man wrote: post #213
matthiasb wrote: post #204

The recommended spec is 4 cores and 6GB. Running this 24/7 for a year in US where the carbon intensity is about 400 gCO₂eq/kWh would produce about 150kg of CO2 per user per year. I appreciate the intent of this project, but it is not a sustainable approach. If you are taking a couple of pictures a day, you only need to run this service for a couple of minutes per day, the rest is wasted. With Google Photos, as a SaaS…

These are for ec2 instances. Nowhere close to what low powered servers consime. Also, this is setup for a family.

I used an AWS instance with similar specs as reference. What kind of low power servers are you referring too?

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

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Post by mordae »

LennyHenrysNuts wrote: post #159

I use Nextcloud, seems to work fine. Does images, files, calendars and contacts.

Nextcloud is super slow and inefficient on many levels. After running it professionally for several years I try yo stay as far away as possible.

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

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Post by mordae »

artdigital wrote: post #169

I use an app called PhotoSync on iOS and use that to sync my stuff to whatever backup solution I use. Currently that’s photoprism but it can do all kinds of stuff like WebDAV, file system, Dropbox etc Highly recommend that app

I hate the way it's configured, but it gets the job done.

It would be nice to be able to tell it to stay away from Download.

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

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Post by 8fingerlouie »

danparsonson wrote: post #125
bombela wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

+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…

I just finished setting up an automated backup system with syncthing and restic, and now my phone, laptop, desktop and server are all backed up in several directions and to a cloud storage area, every night. It's glorious and works like a dream. Happy days!

I would be very careful when setting up any kind of replication on backup repositories. I much prefer to actually backup to multiple destination, since when replicating, any error will propagate to the synchronized repositories as well, rendering all of the equally useless.

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

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Post by smusamashah »

On the github page there is headline, disclaimer, documentation, feature list etc. but the page never once describes what the product is and does in few lines.

Please add a description heading on top too. I didn't understand what you mean by self hosting on phone. Does it all run on your phone making your phone the main backup server? Or do you mean there is an app which you run and connect to a self hosted backup server?

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

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Post by the_common_man »

matthiasb wrote: post #222
the_common_man wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These are for ec2 instances. Nowhere close to what low powered servers consime. Also, this is setup for a family.

I used an AWS instance with similar specs as reference. What kind of low power servers are you referring too?

Like Intel nucs or pi

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

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Post by smusamashah »

altran1502 wrote: post #122
netsharc wrote: post #4

I guess the Github description/HN title is incomplete, it's curious that it's saying it's a backup solution, but what is visible is an web-based photo browser... yeah yeah I get it, just like Google Photos (i.e. App-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named according to the docs[1]), the web viewer is part of the package... I guess it needs a better description, IMO a project with several big components (web, mobile, backend) sells it…

Hey man, project's maintainer here. Thank you for the well thoughts. Naming is hard as it is :P. What would be a nice phase to describe the project?

Add a 2 3 line description right after your heading before Disclaimer and all other stuff that what this project actually is. What does self hosting and mobile phone mean here (I don't know if it makes your phone a backup server)

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

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Post by ALittleLight »

matthiasb wrote: post #204

The recommended spec is 4 cores and 6GB. Running this 24/7 for a year in US where the carbon intensity is about 400 gCO₂eq/kWh would produce about 150kg of CO2 per user per year. I appreciate the intent of this project, but it is not a sustainable approach. If you are taking a couple of pictures a day, you only need to run this service for a couple of minutes per day, the rest is wasted. With Google Photos, as a SaaS…

For perspective, this is about half the CO2 that you will exhale in a year of normal breathing. For similarly useful environmental tips, try not exercising as much - wouldn't want to increase rate of exhalation!

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

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Post by 8fingerlouie »

I'm aparently boring.

My "backup routine" consists of storing photos in iCloud, which is then syncronized "real time" to a local Mac Mini.

From the Mac Mini i then run scheduled backups to a local external harddrive, as well as a local Raspberry Pi running Minio, and nightly to OneDrive.

The external harddrive backup uses Timemachine, the raspberry pi backup uses Kopia, and OneDrive is done with Arq.

Furthermore, i make yearly archive discs. Identical copies on M-disc Blu-Ray media, stored in geographically different locations. Each disc contains the photos that have changed in the previous 12 months, and no encryption/archiving is used.

Alongside the M-disc media i keep a couple of external harddrives that contains the entire photo library. These are checked (with badblocks, non-destructive surface scan) yearly, updated and rotated when storing the new M-disc media.

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