I’ve mostly just relied on Google Photos, and I really like its features. However, I have always been deathly afraid of losing access to my Google photos account and losing all of those, so I need a better way to actually back up my photos. Right now all I do is do a Google Takeout every so often, but that’s inefficient as hell.
How do you do it? How do you backup or sync your photos with a PC/local server?
I just use Google Photos.
I recently set up an immich server.
Yes! Immich is incredible. It’s a self hosted Google images for anyone that doesn’t know, and it’s really close to being an exact replica.
I absolutely love it. https://immich.app/
Syncthing, super easy to set up and use on android and linux. It works with everything, not just photos.
To access files stored on my home server from my phone, I use Material Files with sftp set up
Syncthing is awesome. I’m never losing data to a damaged or stolen device again, and it makes accessing data from a computer and sending data to the phone so much easier.
But we have to keep in mind that syncthing doesn’t protect by default us from accidental deletion, so it’s not a 100% replacement for a backup.
Quote Syncthing! I’ve also a Nextcloud instance shared with my girlfriend in order to share selected photos.
Google 1. I should really do a manual back up as well but I get lazy.
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Syncthing-fork /sdcard so I don’t need to worry about losing my phone. Saved me when my nexus 5x suddenly boot looped
Why the forked one and not the main branch?
I have a two-pronged approach. I use Google photos as is with their normal compression for searchability and casual browsing of photos, but I also have Nextcloud running on my own server where my photos are all backed up in full quality. Both uploads happen automatically so I don’t have to think about it
Personally, I prefer using a cable to transfer photos and videos from my device to my PC. Once they are on my computer, I make sure to back them up onto external hard drives.
Look into getting a USB-C flash drive and transfer the photos to that. You can find a 128gb drive for $15.
I use syncthing. Once setup its really nice.
Same here, syncthing is fantastic and I use it for all kinds of stuff - including backing up phone media.
immich is really promising. Works well for the basic stuff (and quickly adding features) but it’s still early days.
