I’m kind of surprised I’ve struggled with this so long. Right now I’ve been using nextcloud camera upload, and mostly it works ok but shits the bed once in a while without me noticing and I need to spend time fixing it and it’s never as simple as turning it off and on again.
I recently tried syncthing, and while it works, it frequently crashed and got stuck in a state where it says it’s on and working by my destination folder is shown as disconnected, and the options to restart syncthing from the side menu are greyed out and the only way to make it work again is by force closing it and reopening it.
I’m running vanilla stock Google Android and truenas, does anyone have a better solution?
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Immich
Immich supports image uploads from a phone?
Yes
This is the way
How can I sync all my photos locally to a new phone / device? Last I tried it, I had to sync one picture at a time
Do a one-time copy of your photos using SFTP or FolderSync or whatever works for you.
I plan to use immich just what’s the difference between latest and next on their site? Is next the like beta testing?
Rsync, termux widget with a bash. Press button and it syncs my photos to my server filesystem
Sounds like the easiest method lol. At least that way I could add in something to delete photos after copying them if they’re X days old.
Definitely easiest and most manual, but not “robust” I guess but its hard for it to fail you’re more likely to have user error than system error
- USB cable from iPhone to PC.
- Sort by date in filemanager.
- Copy all images since last date backed up to my PC.
- Review and delete crappy images.
- Move to my NAS via filemanager.
- Create a textfile called t.ex. 07juli (so that next time I know to copy files after this date, since I like to keep most pics on my phone).
Do this once or twice a month :)
This works well, but not when you have 13k/150GB of photos lol
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As others has posted. Immich or photoprism. But, i’d check your settings, nextcloud instant upload and syncthing work wonders for me.
I wasn’t aware that either of these had a syncing feature. How well does immich work? I’ve been looking to switch to it from phptoprism for a while
Sorry. Couldnt help you with that. I use nextcloud and syncthing myself.
Havent try immich but i heard immich was the next best thing, be aware though, last i heard even the dev said the app was in active development so things might break.
I think it’s because I have 150GB of photos on 2 different phones and don’t clean them out often.
I’m getting my first server up and running and always considered getting immich. But lately I’m leaning towards photoprism because of updates breaking immich sometimes apparently and photoprism being more mature(?).
Why do you want to switch?
Photoprism recommends you download a $5 app. It works ok enough, but they are clearly trying to monetize.
Check your Syncthing settings. It’s a very reliable piece of software. Other than that Immich, but that’s a slightly different use case.
I figured it out. It gets a little more complex when you’re using a reverse proxy and inter-vlan routing lol.
Too much of a hassle for me, unless I dump the instance on my wifi network but if I set this up I’d like the option to use it for my other vlans too.
rclone is pretty reliable. That’s how I back up my nextcloud to two different object storage sites. I have Nextcloud dockerized on a VPS in the cloud (among other dockerized services for selfhosting). Been syncing nonstop for 3 years now. I also used rclone to sync all my files from OneDrive directly to my VPS block storage. Rclone is a very underrated utility.
I’ve been using FolderSync. It let’s you sync to/from a remote server through a bunch of different protocols like SMB, SFTP, and WebDAV. You can schedule it to run automatically.
I haven’t tried it myself, but I think there is a way you can get Tasker to run scripts in Termux. You could set up your own rsync scripts that way.
