Comment by temp0826

4 years ago

Are there any self-hosted equivalents to icloud photos? (e.g. automated backup/sync. Does the camera app have a way to save to other places, etc?)

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guerrilla  4 years ago

I think your best bet might be NextCloud. You can either host it yourself on a storage VPS or find a provider who provides managed NextCloud (or however they repackage it.) Be aware there are many more providers than listed on the NextCloud website and you'd do well to search about. If you're in Europe, take a look at Hetzner's "Storage Share" as an example of what's possible and prices for high-quality hosting, but like I said there's a million operators out there doing this and you can get it dirt cheap if you want.

I don't know how it works on an iPhone but on Android NextCloud detects when save pictures in a different directory due to some app and asks me if I want it to track that directory. It was already configured by default to track stuff taken with the default camera app.

genewitch  4 years ago

Synology disk station software does this, but that's a significant investment. If you open the DS file software it defaults to syncing your photos. I don't run mine public, so I've never checked how their VPN/cloud sync thing works.

If I want to share a photo from my phone I use syncthing hosted on one of my VMs on a server I bought and built, but that I don't have physical access to easily (I'll never see it, probably). At home to share a photo I either use mattermost to get a public link to the stored image or ssh to the same box as syncthing runs on. I also host mattermost, on a different VM on a different server in the same datacenter.

I don't like apps seeing my stuff so I just don't use stuff like imgur or whatever.