[HN Gopher] Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from yo...
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Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone
Author : barbazoo
Score : 116 points
Date : 2023-07-10 21:28 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| outcoldman wrote:
| I am pretty happy with Synology and Photo backup.
| pj_mukh wrote:
| Hate to be that guy. But one final feature that Google photos
| has:
|
| Auto share photos of a certain face to an album that is shared
| with a group. Group is notified when new photos are added.
|
| This is CLUTCH for new parents.
|
| That being said, this is incredible and I'm definitely moving
| over the first chance I get.
| jrussino wrote:
| I've been looking for something like this.
|
| My wife and I each have a separate Apple Photos library. I'd love
| it if we could have a combined backup solution.
|
| Could we keep using Photos and back up to this, or would it be
| better to ditch Photos and just switch over?
| wunderland wrote:
| Apple Photos actually supports a shared library now:
| https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213248
| davidklemke wrote:
| I like the look of this. I'm currently using PhotoPrism[1] and
| PhotoSync[2] as a combo to get the same thing and whilst it works
| fine I've always thought a single app would be far better placed.
|
| Looks relatively straightforward to get running, pretty much
| inline with what I had to do in order to get PhotoPrism running
| in the first place. Only thing I couldn't see anything about was
| hardware acceleration, do leverage any of the Intel instructions
| (VAAPI) for transcoding? That's a paid feature on PhotoPrism and
| something that's sorely needed. CPU bound transcoding is
| terrible!
|
| Think I'll put this on the TODO list for the weekend!
|
| [1]https://www.photoprism.app/ [2]https://www.photosync-
| app.com/home
| djbusby wrote:
| How do my photos get onto this system? I don't see it from the
| docs.
| Saris wrote:
| In addition to the mobile app which works like google photos
| and backs up photos you take automatically, you can also:
|
| - Upload via the webUI
|
| - Import a folder of photos on the host (copies photos to the
| Immich directory)
|
| - Add a folder of photos on the host (leaves photos in place)
| djbusby wrote:
| I didn't see the PlayStore link from their site. I do find it
| when searching manually.
| charles_f wrote:
| This looks like something that I might use, but
|
| > Expect bugs and breaking changes.
|
| I get it's the pretty normal to go through fixing bugs, but for a
| backup solution the core of it should be stable or I would not
| use it
| gobip wrote:
| Try it. Adopt it. :)
|
| Just a few weeks ago, facial recognition was added and that was
| it for me. I finally made the switch from Google Photos and
| iCloud to immich. It's your self-hosted google photos
| alternative, with image recognition, a map, sharing folders
| publicly, or with other users on your server.
|
| Some parts will be buggy though, like face detection, or
| memories. But the whole "backup & sync" part is very reliable,
| I've never had any issues.
| vasac wrote:
| > Some parts will be buggy though, like face detection, or
| memories.
|
| Frankly, I have had issues with Google Photos already. For
| me, it simply stopped recognizing faces since last October. I
| tried disabling and then enabling face recognition multiple
| times, but to no avail. It starts recognition from scratch,
| but only for photos before October. Writing to the support
| didn't help (although I didn't expect it to anyway), so
| alternatives like this one are becoming more and more
| tempting.
|
| I'm already self-hosting a bunch of things, but facial
| recognition (when it was working) was much better in Google
| Photos and a major reason why I'm paying for additional
| storage.
| cvwright wrote:
| I'm working on building something similar.
|
| From what I can tell, Immich, Ente, and PhotoPrism are the
| best of the batch when it comes to open source photo storage
| and management. They are all good, but it depends on what
| you're looking for.
|
| Personally, I want: E2E encryption, on-device face
| recognition, and the ability to self-host as well as a paid
| option for people who don't want to manage their own server.
| The existing options each hit about 90% of that, but it's a
| different 90% for each one.
| wyager wrote:
| iCloud photos has all of that except the self-host option.
| You may be aware - just saying as I didn't see it on your
| list, and the E2EE is somewhat new.
| TkTech wrote:
| Photoprism had the critical flaw of being single user last
| time I tried it, making it neat but a complete non starter
| for someone with a family larger than 1.
| ktm5j wrote:
| I really like Seafile for this functionality. I host my own
| server using podman to run their docker container and it works
| super well. Their app has the ability to back up any
| photos/videos taken on your phone, in addition to other things it
| can do. Highly recommend!
| pickingdinner wrote:
| Trying to get off dropbox.
|
| 1) Anyone try Backblaze for photo backups? Is it worth trying?
|
| 2) Why is immich photo and video only?
|
| 3) Why docker? I miss the days of just files and scripts on any
| host.
| sib wrote:
| >> 1) Anyone try Backblaze for photo backups? Is it worth
| trying?
|
| Yes, happy customer for many years. Restored ~2GB of photos
| when a MacBook Pro motherboard completely died about 18 months
| ago.
| Saris wrote:
| 1) It's storage with an S3 API, so should work fine, you just
| have to figure out how to manage and view the backups on your
| own.
|
| 2) It's a replacement for google photos.
|
| 3) Ease of use and flexibility, you can deploy a docker compose
| file easily on any host or distro without needing to deal with
| dependencies or OS specific glitches.
| wunderland wrote:
| Has anyone tried setting this up on a raspberry pi 4?
| vinnymac wrote:
| If you search the github page for the project, many have
| reported using a raspberry pi.
|
| For example, here is an issue where a raspberry pi 4 is used.
| https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/611
| Saris wrote:
| I've been using this for a few weeks, it's quite nice.
| Automatically backs up my phone photos, and I also imported a
| huge folder of existing photos on my NAS.
| netsharc wrote:
| I guess the Github description/HN title is incomplete, it's
| curious that it's saying it's a backup solution, but what is
| visible is an web-based photo browser... yeah yeah I get it, just
| like Google Photos (i.e. App-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named according to
| the docs[1]), the web viewer is part of the package...
|
| I guess it needs a better description, IMO a project with several
| big components (web, mobile, backend) sells itself short being
| named just "backup solution".
|
| [1] https://immich.app/docs/overview/introduction
| Saris wrote:
| It is a backup solution, the mobile app automatically backs up
| photos as you take them.
| andirk wrote:
| Real question: is this easier and more reliable than emailing to
| myself for the past 20 years?
| kwhitefoot wrote:
| Or using Syncthing?
| cozzyd wrote:
| 4+ GB of ram required?
| Saris wrote:
| Due to machine learning / face recognition.
| hexadec wrote:
| This looks incredible with the local search and context
| awareness. Curious if there is a comparison to other tools like
| photoprism about the advantages of Immich
| jsight wrote:
| What advantage does this have over nextcloud?
| jcul wrote:
| I haven't used this, but it seems it has AI photo recognition
| stuff.
|
| So you can search for "fish" for example and it will show
| photos of fish.
|
| And apparently it has facial recognition, so you can find
| photos of a specific person by name.
|
| These are killer features of Google photos for me, so it is
| exciting to see them in a self hosted, open source offering.
|
| There is a demo linked on the GitHub page that I checked out:
|
| https://demo.immich.app/
| sn0n wrote:
| Nextcloud has face recognition iirc as well.
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