What are you using as a Google photos alternative? Currently I’m using Nextcloud but I’m thinking of switching to a more dedicated solution.

I mainly need to upload photos from my device automatically, have an UI to see and classify them, albuns and sharing.

    • @jaschenEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      This is my setup using the 3, 2, 1 rule:

      3: Raid 5 setup with 2 unused drives and setup to automatically spool up and recover if one of the drives starts failing. 2: off-site at the father in laws house (using a Xpenology super tiny PC and an external drive) 1: Monthly Backblaze

      While there is risk, it’s def safer if not safer than Google drive.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•1 year ago

      What happens when your Synology fails?

      I can’t speak for other users, but my Synology setup looks like this:

      • NAS - 1 drive redundancy via hybrid RAID.
      • Important folders have recycling bins enabled and I have versioning, too.
      • Daily backup to a local external drive.
      • Daily, encrypted backup to the cloud.
      • Monthly, off-site HDD backup.

      This is honestly a much more secure way of storing my photos than Google Photos.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•1 year ago

      Not who you’re replying to but yes, Synology will let you automate backups to a cloud/service (and you definitely should!)

    • EchoCraniumEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      It’s a dual drive redundant setup. Unless something catastrophic happens, I doubt both drives will go out at the same time. I could do an offsite backup as well, but just haven’t.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•1 year ago

        I was very satisfied with their pricing for offsite backups, and the ease of setup. Definitely worth a look.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•1 year ago

        RAID is not backup :) And yes, it happened to me for 4 drives in a 16 drive system to fail in the span of just a few days (same batch).