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 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/
I just use Google Photos.
immich is really promising. Works well for the basic stuff (and quickly adding features) but it’s still early days.
Google 1. I should really do a manual back up as well but I get lazy.
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?
It’s much better. For example, if you say “sync only while charging”, you can open the app while you’re on battery, to check status or settings, instead on main it just kicks you out “you’re not charging”
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.
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I really miss when Google let you sync your Photos collection to a PC with the Google drive client. There’s third party sync tools now but Google’s API limits them to the “High quality” versions instead of original
Right now I’m just using Onedrive, might setup Immich soon
