Comment by drop_star
18 hours ago
>I've stopped sending my camera roll to iCloud just to save on space.
how do you backup your photos when the phone gets full. I dont have a mac and the process is excruciating. Also the formats get messed up so some photos become unusable. I stopped taking 'live' photos because of this.
I self-host Immich on a ZFS pool of older drives I had lying around.
Not the parent, but Google Photos has been decent as a secondary backup. They even backup Live Photos now.
The two formats I've found that they don't back up accurately are rotated photos (if one's a stickler for "originals") and cropped screenshots (JPEG instead of PNG). Possibly the sidecar files for edits too.
Rotation data isn't included in the file, or it just doesn't display with the correct orientation?
Sometimes Google photos shows the wrong orientation for my pixel photos/videos but it's just a display issue.
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There’s this MacOS native application called Image Capture, use it to backup 100GB of photos. I then partitioned the photo by year and 7zipped them with encryption.
You missed the salient details: "I dont have a mac"
Everything you stated to is useless to the person you replied.
Maybe he interpreted the "how do you backup" as a particular question directed to him, not a general one.
Is handled by Synology DS File app. Is what I've done for 6 years. I don't send photos to iCloud.