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What do you use for photo backups? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by falkerie71@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I'm considering setting up a NAS to backup my stuff and replace Google Photos. Currently I'm looking at Asustor AS6704T and Synology DS923+, with the former having more powerful hardware and hardware encoding, and the latter having a better first party software experience.

Some quick comparisons show me that Synology Photos is infinitely better than Asustor Photo Gallery. AI face recognition, content tagging, and reverse Geocoding are features I've gotten used to in Google photos, which Synology has and Asustor doesn't.
I'm also aware of but not really familiar with other photo backup/management solutions, namely Immich, Photoprism, Piwigo, and Lychee. Immich would probably fit me the best, but Piwigo with plugins would support Photosphere photos that I occasionally take with my Pixel.

So I guess I'm asking you guys what your preferred photo backup solution is? I probably should mention that I personally take photos with a Pixel (jpg and MP4 files), but my family uses iPhones (heic and mov files). No RAW photos for now, but for those who do and would edit photos, how would you manage them?

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[–] upliftedduck@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use PiGallery 2. Very lightweight and doesn't mess with my existing folderstructure. I use syncthing to upload photos from my phone to a folder on my server.

[–] LordChaos82@fosstodon.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@falkerie71 I generally backup my phone to my main NAS and have syncthing configured to Sync my main NAS to backup NAS. My primary NAS is now discontinued WD ex4 and backup NAS is truenas running as a VM on proxmox.
The biggest issue I have with auto backup is that it backs up all the photos including the auto downloaded media from Whatsapp that I have no need to retain.

[–] falkerie71@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I also use Syncthing with SyncTrayzor to sync files between my devices! Doesn't Syncthing have the "ignore patterns" function? You can use that to ignore certain folders like your Whatsapp folder I think!

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 0 points 1 year ago

I'm using Synology, it's good enough but I don't like that the software is not Free Software. In the long run I will probably need to build something from scratch manually.

But if you're using Synology Photos then I wrote some scripts for it https://github.com/jeena/synology-pictures one which randomly finds pictures of family members and puts them into a place where another script (Home Assistant) then shows them on the TV if nobody is watching anything.

And another one which does this "Today, X years ago" also for family members and pushes it into our Matrix family chat.