I’ve mostly just relied on Google Photos, and I really like its features. However, I have always been deathly afraid of losing access to my Google photos account and losing all of those, so I need a better way to actually back up my photos. Right now all I do is do a Google Takeout every so often, but that’s inefficient as hell.

How do you do it? How do you backup or sync your photos with a PC/local server?

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    Syncthing, super easy to set up and use on android and linux. It works with everything, not just photos.

    To access files stored on my home server from my phone, I use Material Files with sftp set up

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      Syncthing is awesome. I’m never losing data to a damaged or stolen device again, and it makes accessing data from a computer and sending data to the phone so much easier.

      But we have to keep in mind that syncthing doesn’t protect by default us from accidental deletion, so it’s not a 100% replacement for a backup.

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        Quote Syncthing! I’ve also a Nextcloud instance shared with my girlfriend in order to share selected photos.

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      Same here, syncthing is fantastic and I use it for all kinds of stuff - including backing up phone media.

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    I use syncthing to sync my camera folder on my pixel 6a phone with a folder on my NAS.

    Then I have an old moto x with pixel experience rom (the rom has unlimited Google photos backup) and syncthing. This phone turns on once a day at night with a smartplug - the folder on my NAS syncs with a folder on phone. The phone backs up the photos to Google photos at full quality.

    I’m still mad that Google took away the photo backup for pixel phones. But this seems to work for now

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      Same! I overuse Syncthing lol. I’ve got my photos syncing plus going bidirectional with my screenshots and documents directory and it’s so convenient and streamlined. I’ve got a 1TB in my laptop so it hasn’t been an issue and it’s nice to know between 2 devices with photos saved offline and Google Photos I’m not sweating.

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      Yes! Immich is incredible. It’s a self hosted Google images for anyone that doesn’t know, and it’s really close to being an exact replica.

      I absolutely love it. https://immich.app/

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    Personally, I prefer using a cable to transfer photos and videos from my device to my PC. Once they are on my computer, I make sure to back them up onto external hard drives.

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    Syncthing-fork /sdcard so I don’t need to worry about losing my phone. Saved me when my nexus 5x suddenly boot looped

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    immich is really promising. Works well for the basic stuff (and quickly adding features) but it’s still early days.

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    I have a two-pronged approach. I use Google photos as is with their normal compression for searchability and casual browsing of photos, but I also have Nextcloud running on my own server where my photos are all backed up in full quality. Both uploads happen automatically so I don’t have to think about it

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    Look into getting a USB-C flash drive and transfer the photos to that. You can find a 128gb drive for $15.

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    I just pay for Google Photos and forget about it, it’s the easiest way and worth my money. Most apps are backed up in a server anyway.

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    If you’re an Amazon Prime member, you can get unlimited photos backup included with its Amazon Photos app.