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Not affiliated, but Immich (https://immich.app/ https://immich.app/) is a great self-hosted alternative to Google Photos.

prabakarviji 1y ago
Interesting. any alternative options for iCloud Photos?
- JaggedJax 1y ago
  Not affiliated, but Immich (https://immich.app/ https://immich.app/) is a great self-hosted alternative to iCloud Photos.
- TranquilMarmot 1y ago
  You can import your iCloud photos into Immich. Immich itself is agnostic to the photos and mostly just operates on folders of files. https://github.com/simulot/immich-go https://github.com/simulot/immich-go is what I used to import ~300gb of photos from Google Photos to Immich. Not sure how well it works for iCloud. There is also https://ente.io/ https://ente.io/ which is a private & secure photo backup app that you don't need to self-host.
  - CharlesW 1y ago
    > Not sure how well it works for iCloud. iCloud Photos stores originals (assuming you're using "Download Originals to this Mac") in the "originals" folder of your .photoslibrary package. If you don't sync your originals, use iCloud Photos Downloader (https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...) to get them.
- 47282847 1y ago
  I use PhotoSync to transfer files automatically. There is also icloudpd and other tools to grab them from iCloud but it requires Advanced Data Protection off.
into_ruin 1y ago
I really tried my best with Immich, but because I didn't want to open a port on my home firewall it made syncing kind of a pain. I ended up going with Ente and have been pretty happy with it.
- TranquilMarmot 1y ago
  I host Immich in Hetzner (VPS w/ attached 1TB storage box) and connect to it using Tailscale which works pretty flawlessly on my phone. It's great, although the VPS is pretty slow and I might move to a home server at some point. I might also just switch over to Ente so I don't have to deal with the self-hosting. Price for Ente is about equivalent for what I'm paying Hetzner right now.
  - dsvf 1y ago
    You could keep the Hetzner VPS with storage for faster online serving of assets and connect a second immich instance only for machine learning on your home server. That way you'd get the best of both worlds: fast media serving and higher performance. That would mean that images are uploaded to the Hetzner server, but the compute-intensive image classification takes place on your home server.
    - TranquilMarmot 1y ago
      A friend suggested this as well. My desktop has a 2080 which is decent enough for machine learning.
  - thehamkercat 1y ago
    Immich didn't have encryption last time i checked, do you trust hetzner with your photos? I also use Immich, but on a local server (using tailscale to reach it from outside)
    - QuantumNomad_ 1y ago
      I’m personally wary of uploading too much private data to any host. I am also a customer of Hetzner, and rent a couple of bare metal servers. But I mostly use it to store data that it wouldn’t be that big of a deal if it was stolen by someone. I’ve previously experimented a bit with encrypted volumes that I manually decrypt over ssh, and even full disk encryption that I manually decrypt over ssh. My experience with Hetzner has been good. It is really rare that the servers go down on their own. Reboots are usually my own doing, so I am already “around” to decrypt encrypted volumes. I have experienced critical, unrecoverable hardware failure on Hetzner servers a couple of times over the years. But I’ve had offsite backups in place since day one, so I never ultimately lost any important data. Had to deprovision the broken server, reprovision a new one and restore from my offsite backup. Which is a bit of a hassle, but no biggie because the only one that relies on my servers is mostly myself. A few days of downtime because I am too busy to set up a new server right away is therefore also ok for me, with how infrequently it has happened. A single Hetzner server should never be the only place hosting a copy of all your photos or other data you cannot afford to lose. But that applies to any host really. Not unique to Hetzner.
kllrnohj 1y ago
Unfortunately it seems to still be lacking HDR images support ( https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/7262 https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/7262 ) if you care about that or not.
_aavaa_ 1y ago
With a scary header about not relying on it as your sole photo library.
- crtasm 1y ago
  ...because it's still in beta, they're aiming for a first stable release this year. It's a good idea to have backups/multiple copies regardless of what system you're using.
cramcgrab 1y ago
Doesn’t do videos, that’s a dealbreaker for me
- Handy-Man 1y ago
  Of course it does...
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prabakarviji 1y ago

Interesting. any alternative options for iCloud Photos?

JaggedJax 1y ago
Not affiliated, but Immich (https://immich.app/ https://immich.app/) is a great self-hosted alternative to iCloud Photos.
TranquilMarmot 1y ago
You can import your iCloud photos into Immich. Immich itself is agnostic to the photos and mostly just operates on folders of files. https://github.com/simulot/immich-go https://github.com/simulot/immich-go is what I used to import ~300gb of photos from Google Photos to Immich. Not sure how well it works for iCloud. There is also https://ente.io/ https://ente.io/ which is a private & secure photo backup app that you don't need to self-host.
- CharlesW 1y ago
  > Not sure how well it works for iCloud. iCloud Photos stores originals (assuming you're using "Download Originals to this Mac") in the "originals" folder of your .photoslibrary package. If you don't sync your originals, use iCloud Photos Downloader (https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...) to get them.
47282847 1y ago
I use PhotoSync to transfer files automatically. There is also icloudpd and other tools to grab them from iCloud but it requires Advanced Data Protection off.

into_ruin 1y ago

I really tried my best with Immich, but because I didn't want to open a port on my home firewall it made syncing kind of a pain. I ended up going with Ente and have been pretty happy with it.

TranquilMarmot 1y ago
I host Immich in Hetzner (VPS w/ attached 1TB storage box) and connect to it using Tailscale which works pretty flawlessly on my phone. It's great, although the VPS is pretty slow and I might move to a home server at some point. I might also just switch over to Ente so I don't have to deal with the self-hosting. Price for Ente is about equivalent for what I'm paying Hetzner right now.
- dsvf 1y ago
  You could keep the Hetzner VPS with storage for faster online serving of assets and connect a second immich instance only for machine learning on your home server. That way you'd get the best of both worlds: fast media serving and higher performance. That would mean that images are uploaded to the Hetzner server, but the compute-intensive image classification takes place on your home server.
  - TranquilMarmot 1y ago
    A friend suggested this as well. My desktop has a 2080 which is decent enough for machine learning.
- thehamkercat 1y ago
  Immich didn't have encryption last time i checked, do you trust hetzner with your photos? I also use Immich, but on a local server (using tailscale to reach it from outside)
  - QuantumNomad_ 1y ago
    I’m personally wary of uploading too much private data to any host. I am also a customer of Hetzner, and rent a couple of bare metal servers. But I mostly use it to store data that it wouldn’t be that big of a deal if it was stolen by someone. I’ve previously experimented a bit with encrypted volumes that I manually decrypt over ssh, and even full disk encryption that I manually decrypt over ssh. My experience with Hetzner has been good. It is really rare that the servers go down on their own. Reboots are usually my own doing, so I am already “around” to decrypt encrypted volumes. I have experienced critical, unrecoverable hardware failure on Hetzner servers a couple of times over the years. But I’ve had offsite backups in place since day one, so I never ultimately lost any important data. Had to deprovision the broken server, reprovision a new one and restore from my offsite backup. Which is a bit of a hassle, but no biggie because the only one that relies on my servers is mostly myself. A few days of downtime because I am too busy to set up a new server right away is therefore also ok for me, with how infrequently it has happened. A single Hetzner server should never be the only place hosting a copy of all your photos or other data you cannot afford to lose. But that applies to any host really. Not unique to Hetzner.

kllrnohj 1y ago

Unfortunately it seems to still be lacking HDR images support ( https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/7262 https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/7262 ) if you care about that or not.

_aavaa_ 1y ago

With a scary header about not relying on it as your sole photo library.

crtasm 1y ago
...because it's still in beta, they're aiming for a first stable release this year. It's a good idea to have backups/multiple copies regardless of what system you're using.

cramcgrab 1y ago

Doesn’t do videos, that’s a dealbreaker for me

Handy-Man 1y ago
Of course it does...

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