Suggestions for file sync / android backup / sharing software (nextcloud alternative)

Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨zipping2583@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

Hello everyone,

Since my daughter was born I am searching for a solution to share pictures of our child with my wife and create a copy of each smartphones photos and other files (documents). At first I tried nextcloud, but there is a lot of overhead and the administration feels kind of complex for what I need.

Anyone else having some input on which software to use?

So my main goal is:

Software running on raspberry pi (preferable docker). Has abilities like shared folder where pictures and documents get uploaded from multiple users and can be viewed (collaboration editing is not needed). Automatically copy files from smartphone (android) to raspberry from selected folder for a simple redundancy.

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bolapara@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Syncthing may fit the bill.

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- MOUCHE_A_MERDE@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  personnaly i have try a lot Synctging and all times I had synchronization problems in the first minutes of testing with few files (between android lineageos and/or two linux desktop)
  
  (fw, ip, setup, are “fine”, so i dropped and go back with nextcloud/rsync/kdeconnect -_-)
  
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  - catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I have syncthing set up between my phone, tablet, and desktop. I’ve only noticed it not syncing once, but as soon as I opened the app on my phone it scanned and synced, so it just hadn’t run in the background yet.
    
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IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’ve used Seafile for years just for this. I haven’t ran that on pi, but on virtual machine it runs pretty smoothly and android client is pretty hassle free.

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- Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Came to say the same. Unlike Syncthing, it all syncs to the server and only downloads to your various devices when you want it to. Vital for my small SSD on MacBook Pro. Syncthing can do similar but requires individually selecting files and folders to ignore, which I did not want to do.
  
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carloshr@lile.cl ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
@zipping2583 @selfhosted
perhaps #immich work for that.
https://immich.app/
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- zipping2583@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I went for immich. It’s awesome! :) Looking forward on seeing what it will become!
  
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eramseth@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I have found synching to be very useful for making copies of files across devices. I have it setup to mirror photos from my phone, photos from my wife’s phone, and various other things (to-do lists for todo.txt, notes and shopping lists for obsidian… stuff like that) back to my desktop and my NAS. You can set it to do one-way sync (which is more like a backup) or two way sync (where changes anywhere are propagated to everywhere else).

As others have said, it’s not really a true backup solution, but handy to have immediately accessible copies of what’s on your phone in case of phone loss or damage.

For photo viewing and sharing, I am more or less pointing the photo sharing app on my NAS to the photos I sync from phone. They all get dropped into an “inbox” when first synced and then can be organized from there.

You may also want an actual backup solution. There are quite a few and that’s a different topic. The reason I bring it up, though, is that simply mirroring what’s currently on device is not considered a real backup by most people, and for good reason.

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PoopMonster@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Immich but it has a lot of breaking changes, good news is that going stable is on their road map for this year. They also joined FUTO.

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- peregus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Is there an Immich Android app that auto upload pictures?
  
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  - AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    There is. It seemed like every time I opened it, either it or the server needed to be updated though.
    
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  - unrushed233@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    f-droid.org/packages/app.alextran.immich/
    
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AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m liking ente for photos at the moment.

immich had too many breaking changes.

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- unrushed233@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It can even be self-hosted help.ente.io/self-hosting/
  
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Toes@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Syncthing like others suggested is probably the way to go.

But if you want more options you can do a lot with WebDAV. digitalocean.com/…/how-to-configure-webdav-access…

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Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I chimed in on the vote for Seafile on this thread. But I think it’s worth trying NextcloudPi image to see if that does what you want. I’ve been presently surprised by how well it works compared to my experience with the AIO image.

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