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>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?
100%
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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If you are running the machine anyway to do other tasks like backing up and running Jellyfish then it might be worth it. How did you get to 150kg of CO2 per user? I'm going to assume you mean each person has one instance rather than sharing an instance like a family would. So thats 375Kwh per year, which works out as drawing 42W. That seems rather high to me. I'm hoping to try and run this on my Pi4 which idles at un…
My personal server is a 9900K with 64GB ram and normally around 35 various docker containers running on it. It's very rare to see it ever above 10% CPU utilization. For example, I host between 5-10 minecraft servers for my kids, but they sleep while the kids aren't playing on them and only spool up when a link is requested. A properly configured Linux box would barely need a trickle of energy when nothing is demandin…
I do this same thing with 1 server. How fo you handle requests? I used a lambda to fire up an ec2 instance but just moved to locally served.
Re: Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone
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This doesn’t answer your question directly but iCloud is definitely not the way. Not only it’s unreliable and unusable largely, it is also designed in a way that discourage interoperability. On Mac (I am aware you have said Windows) So if I were you I’d just dump app the photos locally in normal folder hierarchies (yes drag and drop; not going hunting in Library folder) and then backup wherever you want them. Here’s…
I use https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do... running on my NAS to regularly download photos from my wife's iCloud account. The photos are stored in full resolution on iCloud with the EXIF data, unlike Google Photos, so that's nice. The only annoyance is that you need to reauthorize the tool every three months. But it sends you a reminder when the time is coming up.
Beware that edits, portraits and some custom photo modes aren't currently downloaded. And modifying an edit twice or more will not sync. (no modtime or chksum)
Re: Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone
#354The 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…
I'll put this on my Celeron fanless home NAS that's running already (and sipping well below 20 watts)