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What do you use for photo backups? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 years 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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[-] dontblink@feddit.it 1 points 3 years ago

Nextcloud + the app "Photos for Nextcloud"

[-] Aarkon@feddit.de 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Good enough general suggestion. The Nextcloud app for phones is still awful though, it fails to show contents of large folders/won't update their contents to this day (this issue is years old), which is particular relevant for photo and video backups. Also, video playback in the browser is limited as there is no automatic transcoding and not all browsers like all video codecs.

Edit: Just to clarify, I'm running Nextcloud myself and it's not always too friendly to the "look, you don't have to use Google for everything!"-attitude I like to show towards friends and family.

[-] dontblink@feddit.it 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

true, that's why i'm probably switching to Immich for that, even with caching enabled Nextcloud is more useful for storing than to go and look to old photos. It's just slow to load the content, could be that my network is already really slow by itself tho.

I would say it's more an acceptable solution than a real alternative for now.

[-] Aarkon@feddit.de 2 points 3 years ago

I really like Nextcloud, but I really think it's not (or not only) your network. ;)

[-] LordChaos82@fosstodon.org 1 points 3 years ago

@dontblink @falkerie71 I loved nextcloud photos until my photo collection grew and it took forever for nextcloud to load them. I believe it was trying to parse through the complete picture folder. Maybe there was something wrong with my selfhosted instance but it became unusable for me after a while.

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