Solution for family photo backup
reddit / selfhosted

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BigMasterpiece1757 · 2023-12-22 09:20

hello,

wife and kids are upset to always have their phones full of
photos\\videos. And I'm too as I have to manually move these to my NAS
regularly(I'm currently using Syno Photos on it).

What would be the best selfhosted solution to have everyone having an
application(apple and android) automatically uploading their media to
my NAS? NextCloud? Immich? Syno Photos?

Thanks

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Jonteponte71 · 2023-12-22 09:49

I don’t get it. You are all already using Synology Photos but am
asking if there is some other solution to do the same thing? Enable
multiuser on your NAS if you haven’t done it and let your family
members use the Photos app to offload from their phones to Synology
Photos. Then connect a usb hd to the NAS and back all of up with
hyperbackup?

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BigMasterpiece1757 · 2023-12-22 09:55

>t it. You are all already using Synology Photos but am asking if
there is some other solution to do the same thin

I'm not using it for backup\\upload. I will consider that but was
thinking it might not be efficient enough and might not allow to
isolate user. thanks

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dotinho · 2023-12-22 10:34

Use immich :)

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BigMasterpiece1757 · 2023-12-22 13:09

will give a try first to synology photos also for media upload. If not
adopted by family Immich lookc to be a good option

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harlekintiger · 2023-12-22 13:18

Nextcloud?

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zezimeme · 2023-12-22 16:05

You mean you don’t want users to see each others pictures? Like using
different accounts?

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Jonteponte71 · 2023-12-22 16:53

Ok. As I said. DSM has a feature where you can activate home folders
for users to separate their content from eachother. This works with
Photos as well. So everyone can have their own private photos backed
up. Or in shared albums as well in needed. You as an admin can of
course see it all if you want, but that is true for all similar
solutions. All of this is documented on the Synology site.

You don’t even have to open up the NAS externally since the app will
connect to the wifi and backup any new photos as soon as you are home.

But I would add a backup solution as well. As RAID is not backup.

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dazchad · 2023-12-22 21:41

Might not be feasible due to way Apple handle accounts, but some
people sync their photos/icloud on a mac/mac mini/etc, and then sync
those folders to the NAS.

Apple really should open up an API for the iCloud, but obviously want
to keep the garden walled.