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Hello everyone,

Since my daughter was born I am searching for a solution to share pictures of our child with my wife and create a copy of each smartphones photos and other files (documents). At first I tried nextcloud, but there is a lot of overhead and the administration feels kind of complex for what I need.

Anyone else having some input on which software to use?

So my main goal is:

Software running on raspberry pi (preferable docker). Has abilities like shared folder where pictures and documents get uploaded from multiple users and can be viewed (collaboration editing is not needed). Automatically copy files from smartphone (android) to raspberry from selected folder for a simple redundancy.

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I'll be the contrary one: I tried a lot of things and ended up, eventually, going back to Nextclolud, simply because it's extendable and can add more shit to do things as you need it.

File sync and images may be all you need now, but let's say in the future you want to dump Google Docs, or add calendar and contact syncing, or notes, or to do lists, or hosting your own bookmark sync app, or integrating webmail, or....

It's got a lot of flaws, to be sure, but the ability to make it essentially do every task you might want cloud syncing with to at least a level of 'good enough', has pretty much kept me on it.

[-] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 2 points 4 days ago

I use nextcloud to sync our photos, with the memory's add-on and mobile app you can even have collections.

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