I’m considering setting up a NAS to backup my stuff and replace Google Photos. Currently I’m looking at Asustor AS6704T and Synology DS923+, with the former having more powerful hardware and hardware encoding, and the latter having a better first party software experience.

Some quick comparisons show me that Synology Photos is infinitely better than Asustor Photo Gallery. AI face recognition, content tagging, and reverse Geocoding are features I’ve gotten used to in Google photos, which Synology has and Asustor doesn’t.
I’m also aware of but not really familiar with other photo backup/management solutions, namely Immich, Photoprism, Piwigo, and Lychee. Immich would probably fit me the best, but Piwigo with plugins would support Photosphere photos that I occasionally take with my Pixel.

So I guess I’m asking you guys what your preferred photo backup solution is? I probably should mention that I personally take photos with a Pixel (jpg and MP4 files), but my family uses iPhones (heic and mov files). No RAW photos for now, but for those who do and would edit photos, how would you manage them?

  • @sunbeam60English
    2•1 year ago

    Heavy user of PhotoPrism here (75000+) and I LOVE it - can’t recommend it enough. Easy to self-host, decent face recognition, ok video support (with HW transcoding if present). Still under very active development but very full-featured already.

    • JustEnoughDucksEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Are there multiple-users yet on the open source edition?

      I use it, but haven’t upgraded this year yet.

      • @sunbeam60English
        1•1 year ago

        Yes, the latest upgrade has full multi-user support. You still cannot separate pictures by users (i.e. one instance still manages one library, with multiple users have different rights in that library), but that is coming “soon”.

        • JustEnoughDucksEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          Ah, well at this point since it is listed as a feature of their 72€/year tier I think I might go with “never” 😅

          • @sunbeam60English
            1•1 year ago

            I agree it’s rather pricey, all-in-all. That said, I feel like I’m supporting a dev & community/project manager to actually make a living of a project that really does matter do me, especially also in its ability to be self-hosted. In my later years, I’ve become a lot more inclined to support the software I use, especially if I can self-host or it makes the world a better place.

            • JustEnoughDucksEnglish
              1•1 year ago

              Fair, I feel the same way and I wish I had the money for that. If I paid that price for every FOSS service I use I would be paying around 150€ per month just for software I use periodically or frequently to become independent from corporations lol

              Though I would prefer a “pay what you want” to get the features for non-enterprise, but I know that most people would take advantage of that.