Just for sharing: my setup is something like the following exactly because, even though I like google photo, I always felt it was too good to last. I have 2 NA

Just for sharing: my setup is something like the following exactly because, even though I like google photo, I always felt it was too good to last. I have 2 NAS (one a old custom build running freenas, the other a QNAP) in 2 different continents. I use resilio sync to sync between them, and to automatically download photos from my phones to the two NAS (when the phones are charging and connected to wifi). The two NAS also expose a network volume with all pictures, that is mounted on the PCs I use lightroom on. This is also how pictures from regular cameras can be ingested. Lightroom database backups also end up on that network volume. Each one of the two NAS takes hourly snapshot of their FS (to protect against accidental deletion/overwrites). As data is rarely updated, these snapshots can be kept for years while using negligible space. In addition, the qnap NAS backs everything up, encrypted, to glacier, just in case everything else fails. Finally, the phones also sync to google photo in "high" quality, just as a convenience. If I don't care about quality, i can share from google photo. Otherwise I can share via the qnap NAS in original quality.