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?

  • AnEilifintChorcra
    5·
    2 years ago

    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

    • naoseiquemsou@lemmy.ml
      2·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 years ago

    Syncthing-fork /sdcard so I don’t need to worry about losing my phone. Saved me when my nexus 5x suddenly boot looped

  • xonigo@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 years ago

    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

  • nimnim@lemmy.ca
    1·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • Moonrise2473@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 years ago

      So you don’t do backups as it can’t be automated.

      Once a week becomes once a month then once a year then “uhm i think i copied everything a few months ago, it’s somewhere”, then one day the phone breaks and you lose a lifetime of photos.

    • JshKlsn@lemmy.mlM
      2·
      2 years ago

      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/