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Absolutely phenomenal. Great app, hosting, and development community.
It's a good reason to start self hosting.
This. Its excellent. Cross platform. AI search. Location tagging. Everythibg u want.
This is amazing, exactly what I was looking for!
Sounds overkill just for backing up files.
Its more of a complete Google Photos replacement than a basic backup/syncing system
Immich. Come for the photo backup, stay for everything else because it's awesome.
Like everyone is saying, Immich.
But keep an eye on updates because it is under active development so breaking changes tend to happen every once in a while.
I use syncthing to keep all my documents and pictures synced between my devices.
Yeah this.
I don't keep all my photos in sync though. Only the last few months.
I'm using photoprism to browse photos on my server but I've been meaning to look at other options because it's not that great IMO.
I swapped out photoprism for immich and I'm much happier.
Bit its deprecated now because Google pissed off the only developer. I mean forget photos, I need a whole phone file system backup tool that is self hosted. I don't want any of my stuff to end up in Google servers. I take lots of research notes and photos. WTF. That shit should be illegal.
The android app developed by the syncthing dev is deprecated, the fork is still fine. While the fork's dev has no plans to publish to google play, there's presently no reason to think they will discontinue supporting the fork.
Immich has a setting that does automatic photo backup over WiFi, I use the android app as a Google photos replacement. You can choose however many folders on your phone as you want (I just do camera roll) and enable only backup over WiFi and it backs up all the photos in original quality. I self-host the server on my Synology with a reverse proxy (can't forward ports at my current place due to cgnat) so I can access it from anywhere.
I believe the app is cross platform so the iPhone version should be identical to the android one.
Nextcloud's instant upload feature?
Whenever I take a picture or screenshot it's uploaded there.
Nextcloud might be overkill if that's the only feature you need. I've never used the more involved stuff like chat or document editing, just sync.
You can use the Nextcloud app with the much simpler KaraDAV backend. Works fine for photo backups.
That feature kinda works, but it's incredibly fragile. It has caused so many annoyances for me over the last year or so that I'm finally done with the thing. Just go with immich instead, less headache.
Nextcloud has so many bugs when you store a lot of files, and photos on a phone accumulate to a big number. Both their Android app and server doesn't deal with a few years' worth of photos.
Immich has completely replaced Google Photos for me, love it!
My only bugbear is that it is updated very frequently (what a nice problem to have!) which in my case requires a manual once-over of my docker-compose file every time in case there are breaking changes.
I use Immich, and I love it.
Nextcloud. Works super well.
I think right now it is a throwdown between:
- Nextcloud Photos
- Immich
- Ente Photos
Nextcloud photos is in the "proof of concept" stage, not even alpha.
I've been using it for a couple of years though. I have not really had any problems with auto-upload from my android phone. So not sure if that "not even alpha stage" comment is correct. I don't know the state of it on iOS though.
Can confirm that nextcloud photo back is for the most part rock solid, they have had some issues when Android changes something and that mess up the process.
But I took have been running it for years, of your nextcloud install is ropey then your photo sync will be.
It doesn't matter what software you use, Apple doesn't allow automatic backups on their phones. Consider buying a different phone that allows you to use it as you see fit.
Photo sync claims it does and as I mentioned in the post, I’m okay with needing to trigger it myself via its own app.
That is not true, it is completely possible with systems like Nextcloud and Owncloud. I have one set up at home and it's great.
The phone app auto-uploads your chosen pics directory's contents to your chosen cloud backup folder on a schedule or any time you want. And it's free software.
I've been using folder sync pro for ages and ages https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.android.foldersync.full
It basically syncs a folder from your phone to a folder on your home servers share.
I think it was paid.... But it's been years so I couldn't tell you.
I think it was paid.... But it's been years so I couldn't tell you.
It's currently $3.99 in the Play Store for me, with a crossed-out list price of $6.49. Not a bad deal.
Yeah I've definitely gotten that out of it.
It backs up my entire phone to my server.
I have all my photos synced to iCloud and have Apple Photos running on my Mac with the option to “always download originals” enabled. Then, I run a daily backup of my Mac’s photo library to my NAS. For this, I’m using CCC at the moment but I’m planning to switch to restic.
I've been using Ente Photos, and PhotoPrism and I've been liking Ente pretty well. Little bit more work to get things setup and going but I've been enjoying it for the last few months