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Need a self hosted solution to offload old Photos's from iPhones to make space in iCloud for new ones (feddit.nl)
submitted 1 year ago by reddwarf@feddit.nl to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Not sure if this is the right place but lets give it a go.

We have a family account on iCloud so all iPhones (5 of them) can sync items on the phones to their laptops and so forth. One feature that is eating all the storage space we have on iCloud and that would be Photo's. We ran out of space and thus Backups, Photos, Contacts, etc. will not sync anymore. We can add more space in iCloud but I am not keen on keeping buying storage space with Apple.

So my thought was to have all Photo's older then xyz days/months/years stored somewhere else to free up space in that iCloud account. I do not want to delete these older photo's, just have them stored somewhere else but still accessible. So ideally I would be able to tell some app/solution to move photo's from a phone to something self hosted and the user of that phone can then keep seeing the photo's in either the Photos app or the app related to the self hosted solution.

Honestly, even more ideal would be to 'tell' the Photos app from Apple to use the self hosted storage and not the iCloud storage. This would make the transition transparent to all the family members. Some features might no longer work (that 'memories' feature perhaps?) but that is OK, being able to store photo's is more important.

Apologies if this has been asked before but my searching, which is admittedly is not that great from my side, found no answer I could translate to my issue. Any help is appreciated!

FYI, I am running Docker at home and can make services available on the internet with ngnix in front of it as proxy. I can also run a new service of course, the self hosting bit as it were.

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[–] reddwarf@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is an interesting one. Seems this one has has the backend and frontend covered. Does ente take the photos from iCloud and then remove them to free up space on iCloud?

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure they have a way to do that automatically. It's more of an alternative to Google Photos or iCloud.

My wife and I were each running out of space on Google Photos and used Google's takeout function to get all of our pictures from Google and then bulk upload them to my self-hosted ente instance. I'm not sure if/how Apple offers that kind of functionality.

[–] reddwarf@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, I understand. How did you manage the pictures taken on phones after the move to ente? Perhaps once in a while bulk transfer them manually? Or perhaps tell the camera app to start using ente (if such a thing is even possible)?

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm on Android, so I can't speak to how iPhones handle it, but installed the ente app on the phones, pointed it to my instance and picked which folders on the phone to keep backed up.