I selfhost immich
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Immich as well. Its damn good
Immich is amazing! can only recommend it
The fact that you have some sort of plan for managing your photos is one step ahead of me. I have no plans and my photos are a very messy collection.
I would caution against using a flash drive (a.k.a. pen drive) for any permanent storage. I've had multiple flash drives fail on me. Usually it's this super cheap kind that gets distributed as branded swag, but I've had some others fail too.
Immich - I moved from PhotoPrism some months ago, and am very happy I did.
Indeed. Immich is the way to go. While stating heavy development I find it quite stable. Did not have major issues with it. However I don't use their interface much. I just use it as 2nd backup location to automatically upload stuff from my phone to something else than the big G.
Obviously this need some sort of server but a VPS will do.
Immich is awesome!
Yep, and the active development is really impressive. I've messaged on the Discord server from time to time, and the primary dev has often responded within minutes to help me deal with my query.
Immich is a selfhosted photo management server with a user interface that's similar to google photos. Also has mobile apps.
Their motto is "privacy should not be a luxury".
I was planning for long to try it out because it looks very promising, but I was waiting for.. I don't know what? Fuck it I'm installing it today.
- ⚠️ Expect bugs and breaking changes.
- ⚠️ Do not use the app as the only way to store your photos and videos.
Well that's not very confidence-inducing…
To be fair though, those warnings are not really representative of the current user experience. I've had Immich running for about 6 months by now, and apart from the very frequent updates the only annoyance was when they recently changed their database scheme, and I had to manually add two extensions to my Postgres. Everything else has been rock solid, and has been improving at a massive pace
Yeah the warnings are there for a reason, it is very new. However, only had to change my docker compose once, and that's it. Otherwise everything has worked flawlessly.
The warning serves to make you aware that it is beta software, and to have 3-2-1 backup solution.
Have you ever logged in to a linux shell? If so, the below or similar may be familiar:
Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law.
As I see they are just
- covering their asses legally, in case someone wanted to go to court over losing family pictures
- making sure that the admin knows that they really really should do backups of the data stored there
"no warranty" is very different from "expect bugs and breakage"
It tells me they're not confident in or trying for stability. Which means I have to expect issues and fix up time requirements. Which I'm not willing to invest regularly.
At first I simply used Syncthing to sync the directories where the pictures from my phone are stored in a directory on a HDD on my PC, but then I got tired up with the constant problems and started using ente.io, although you can also use Filen.io (although the photos are not uploaded automatically, you must enter the app) or some instance of Nextcloud, although Ente is the best option.
For anyone reading this and getting ideas.... Syncthing is not a backup tool. Please don't use it for backups. the devs have addressed this so many times.
Before you lose your data, please try deleting a single file and see what happens.
What kind of problems? I use syncthing, curious if your past issues might be my future ones.
I selfhost PhotoPrism.
I use a folder sync app, to upload all my pictures from my phone to a directory on my server, which PhotoPrism imports from every 15 mins(Might be a bit more or less).
I have used it for a couple of years and it has worked fine for me.
OneDrive sync up from my phone (since Samsung uses them as backup), which is then mirrored down to my 2-Bay Synology NAS. The entire NAS is backed up to iDrive (no it's not Apple, believe it or not)
Synology NAS with DS Photo and their app on my phone... And then I activate photo backup in there And to keep Connected i use a wireguard vpn
Alternatively I justt saw, that proton drive now supports photo backup... Maybe I'll give it a spin
I am using immich as a replacement for Google photos, which syncs my phones and tablets. I just wish it had any kind of photo editing.
I then also have Photoprism, which I use for my actual photography stuff. When I pull raws and videos from my DSLR, I dump them into a share on my NAS, mapped to a drive in Windows. They then get automatically imported into and managed by Photoprism.
Still trying to work out the best way to edit/work with the raws in Lightroom, while keeping them in Photoprism, and also up-to-date.
I also use Duplicati to do nightly encrypted backups to Google drive.
Nextcloud