How do you manage your photos and videos? (monyet.cc)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by sabaku_no_gaara@monyet.cc to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I am trying to finally move from entirely depending on Google Photos to a proper backup strategy. I have my photos and videos downloaded from Google which are a mess right now but as long they're with me I am fine, at least for now.

So, what I have planned is 3 way backup with Mega Drive-Google Photos- Local storage. Local storage, I will start off with storing on a pendrive and my router has a usb port so will make use of it for time being.

I know my way of doing things is noobish for a piracy community (and in general too, I am kinda embarrassed as well sharing this "strategy" of mine). Hence I'm asking for suggestions to improve my strategy. Yeah, in the future I will move to HDDs and NAS but for time being I am starting out this way.

So how do you manage your personal media? Are there any noob-friendly tools/techniques you know which drastically improve my strategy?

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[-] lemmy@endlesstalk.org 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I selfhost PhotoPrism.

I use a folder sync app, to upload all my pictures from my phone to a directory on my server, which PhotoPrism imports from every 15 mins(Might be a bit more or less).

I have used it for a couple of years and it has worked fine for me.

[-] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Syncthing is very useful for backing uo devices! https://syncthing.net/

[-] PracticalParrot@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 11 months ago

Syncthing is not a backup tool. Please don't use it for backups. the devs have addressed this so many times.

Before you lose your data, please try deleting a single file and see what happens.

[-] radioactiveradio@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

There's file versioning available. And I haven't had any problems with backups. I have deleted my password vault on a few occasions already. And a backup has been always available in a hidden folder.