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?
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.
Quote Syncthing! I’ve also a Nextcloud instance shared with my girlfriend in order to share selected photos.
I use syncthing. Once setup its really nice.
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/
immich is really promising. Works well for the basic stuff (and quickly adding features) but it’s still early days.
I just use Google Photos.
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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
I use https://nextcloud.com/ - it’s a bit like DropBox in that it copies data to a cloud server and also to computers directly under my control.
Personally, I prefer using a cable to transfer photos and videos from my device to my PC. Once they are on my computer, I make sure to back them up onto external hard drives.
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?
Google 1. I should really do a manual back up as well but I get lazy.
I use syncthing to sync my camera folder on my pixel 6a phone with a folder on my NAS.
Then I have an old moto x with pixel experience rom (the rom has unlimited Google photos backup) and syncthing. This phone turns on once a day at night with a smartplug - the folder on my NAS syncs with a folder on phone. The phone backs up the photos to Google photos at full quality.
I’m still mad that Google took away the photo backup for pixel phones. But this seems to work for now
I just pay for Google Photos and forget about it, it’s the easiest way and worth my money. Most apps are backed up in a server anyway.
Look into getting a USB-C flash drive and transfer the photos to that. You can find a 128gb drive for $15.
USB flash drives are not reliable for long-term storage. Please make sure you have another backup if you keep your photos on one.
