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I'm a big fan of the idea, especially in the light of Google Photos announcement. I'd ideally want my phone to back up my pictures, location, health data, docum

by m0zg 6y ago

I'm a big fan of the idea, especially in the light of Google Photos announcement. I'd ideally want my phone to back up my pictures, location, health data, documents, and other data to something self-hosted, with at least decent mining/visualization/search built in, without ever sharing it with any third party.

ohthehugemanate 6y ago
I have a home nextcloud server for this (easy to run with docker!). - The nextcloud phone clients upload our photos/videos automatically. - My homedir videos, photos, and documents directories are all symlinked from my nextcloud directory so they sync automatically. - My journal/notes are stored in Markdown, inside my documents directory. Synced per the above. - nextcloud includes a calendar server, to which I sync my google and outlook calendars. - I have face recognition run on my photos by a nextcloud plugin. - nextcloud also includes online collaborative docs, and other capavilities that I don't use yet. Probably there are some for Geo data. The whole thing is searchable through the web, desktop, or phone clients. I can pick a day and call up all the photos, notes, calendar appointments, and files for it. Or search by person, or search names and contents of files... It's also got a WebDAV interface and a standardized API, share links with optional passwords, and it's multi-user friendly. Oh, and of course it's the cheapest way to get terabytes of storage. Highly recommended!
- m0zg 6y ago
  I'm a little wary of OwnCloud, and generally of any software written in PHP. PHP invites problems. That said, I find this page reassuring: https://owncloud.com/security/ https://owncloud.com/security/. It does seem like they took security pretty seriously a few years ago, and only a few issues have been discovered since then.
  - touristtam 6y ago
    > PHP invites problems What's the issue with PHP? I don't get the same vibe as you from that specific programming language.

by m0zg 6y ago

ohthehugemanate 6y ago

I have a home nextcloud server for this (easy to run with docker!). - The nextcloud phone clients upload our photos/videos automatically. - My homedir videos, photos, and documents directories are all symlinked from my nextcloud directory so they sync automatically. - My journal/notes are stored in Markdown, inside my documents directory. Synced per the above. - nextcloud includes a calendar server, to which I sync my google and outlook calendars. - I have face recognition run on my photos by a nextcloud plugin. - nextcloud also includes online collaborative docs, and other capavilities that I don't use yet. Probably there are some for Geo data. The whole thing is searchable through the web, desktop, or phone clients. I can pick a day and call up all the photos, notes, calendar appointments, and files for it. Or search by person, or search names and contents of files... It's also got a WebDAV interface and a standardized API, share links with optional passwords, and it's multi-user friendly. Oh, and of course it's the cheapest way to get terabytes of storage. Highly recommended!

m0zg 6y ago
I'm a little wary of OwnCloud, and generally of any software written in PHP. PHP invites problems. That said, I find this page reassuring: https://owncloud.com/security/ https://owncloud.com/security/. It does seem like they took security pretty seriously a few years ago, and only a few issues have been discovered since then.
- touristtam 6y ago
  > PHP invites problems What's the issue with PHP? I don't get the same vibe as you from that specific programming language.