Comment on Finding a private self hosted Google Photos alternative that doesn’t profit from my photos

unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• k4j8@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I switched from Nextcloud Memories to Immich when Immich added support for external libraries. From what I remember, Memories was pretty good but a bit slower, not as polished, and had significantly worse AI tools. I recommend Immich.

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• Saltarello@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I use Nextcloud Memories for uploading folders to quickly share to relatives. Love it, very straightforward for them to use.

  I also host Immich but unlike Memories not exposed, local only. I set Immich up because we found we never looked at our photos when they were just stored on a hard drive but we look at them much more now theyre easily accessible. I spent months slowly retrospectively tagging & adding geo locations to our photos in order to utilise the powerful search capability of Immich. I use the template option & set it up to match the folder structure of our photos.

  I’m using Kopia to back up the entire Immich directory including the nightly Immich-db dumps & ive also moved a backup of the backup to another drive, currently somewhere in the region of about 80+GB.

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• milk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah. It integrates so cleanly with nextcloud and also means I don’t have to pay for a second service just for photos so that’s nice

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• dieTasse@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In immich you can also get the files organized in folders. I have it year > month > day. You can create templates for how you want to organize it.

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• feannag@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have it and immich set up. Nextcloud memories is fine, but for me the auto upload would randomly stop at some points. Overall ux with immich is better, but memories gets the job done.

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  • exu@feditown.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I use FolderSync to push my photos to Nextcloud. Much more reliable than their app

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    • feannag@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Does that automatically add it to the database or do you have a scan schedule?

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      • speculate7383@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t use Memories, but yes, uploading photos with FolderSync to Nextcloud (via WebDAV) does add them to the Nextcloud database. They show up as new photos in the recent activities list.

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      • exu@feditown.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think Memories schedules its scan with the normal cron job for Nextcloud

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• Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is my preferred solution.

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• Zenlix@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have one setup. The setup was abit clunky since cli work is required. But after that I had a great experience.

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• Samsy@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Since I would recommend everyone 3-2-1. I have both a good structured photobackup AND immich.

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  • Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What do you use for 3-2-1? I try, so far I have my phone, backed up to a server HDD via SMB (Too poor for RAID-1 atm), and the very important stuff sent to a USB drive. Am I doing it right haha

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• sk@utsukta.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  @unknowing8343 yes, i've been using Memories app to tag and organize my photos and it has been running smoothly. no complaints whatsoever.

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• JASN_DE@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  whereas the other options basically force you to forever use their database-based system and files are terribly organized, so you are forced to use their interface.

  Immich has a “storage templates” section which allows you to choose a folder structure that it will use to store the files in.

  Or go the other way and include your folders as external libraries.

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  • rotkehle@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “external library” is the way

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