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Synology NAS, using Synology Photos (installed on my phone + wife's phone for photo backups). The NAS is backed up nightly using Synology C2. I also have a loca

by dmje 5y ago

Synology NAS, using Synology Photos (installed on my phone + wife's phone for photo backups). The NAS is backed up nightly using Synology C2. I also have a local standalone disk. We also both use Google Photos - although not all photos on here and ideally I wouldn't use it, the utility is so strong it's hard to say no to it. I did used to use Mylio [1] which is a really lovely solution that uses a sort of internal P2P approach - your images don't go near a cloud host if you don't want them to. It just keeps your "vaults" updated with each other - a vault can be on a NAS / desktop / mobile. The issue I had with it was that the mobile scenario is a bit shonky - required you to have your phone on at the same time as one of your other vaults in order to sync mobile photos, and that proved too fiddly to maintain. [1] https://mylio.com/ https://mylio.com/

spiantino 5y ago
I also use Synology, but with apple photos. There's a mac mini on my home network that syncs the photo library automatically, and then Synology Drive syncs the local folder to the Synology. That is in turn backed up to backblaze weekly
- gavinmckenzie 5y ago
  How do you sync your Apple photo library to your Syno, given the Apple library is a package file containing a maze of machine-generated nested folders and many nearly duplicate image files (at least for those images you’ve edited)?
  - jasonwaters 5y ago
    Here's how I do it... - subscribe to iCloud 2TB plan - all photos on my wife and my devices are auto uploaded to the cloud - i run a synology nas that downloads and organizes all the photos in a directory structure YYYY/MM/DD. - a hyperbackup task backs up the (encrypted) photos to Backblaze B2. That way i have my photos in apple's cloud, on my nas and in another cloud. What do I use to download/sync the photos from iCloud to the NAS, you ask?? It's an awesome project called "iCloud Photos Downloader" - https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do... I have it running in a docker container on the nas and it periodically syncs and keeps itself up to date, no hassle. https://hub.docker.com/r/boredazfcuk/icloudpd https://hub.docker.com/r/boredazfcuk/icloudpd

by dmje 5y ago

spiantino 5y ago

I also use Synology, but with apple photos. There's a mac mini on my home network that syncs the photo library automatically, and then Synology Drive syncs the local folder to the Synology. That is in turn backed up to backblaze weekly

gavinmckenzie 5y ago
How do you sync your Apple photo library to your Syno, given the Apple library is a package file containing a maze of machine-generated nested folders and many nearly duplicate image files (at least for those images you’ve edited)?
- jasonwaters 5y ago
  Here's how I do it... - subscribe to iCloud 2TB plan - all photos on my wife and my devices are auto uploaded to the cloud - i run a synology nas that downloads and organizes all the photos in a directory structure YYYY/MM/DD. - a hyperbackup task backs up the (encrypted) photos to Backblaze B2. That way i have my photos in apple's cloud, on my nas and in another cloud. What do I use to download/sync the photos from iCloud to the NAS, you ask?? It's an awesome project called "iCloud Photos Downloader" - https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do... I have it running in a docker container on the nas and it periodically syncs and keeps itself up to date, no hassle. https://hub.docker.com/r/boredazfcuk/icloudpd https://hub.docker.com/r/boredazfcuk/icloudpd