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?

  • Technikus5@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’d recommend I’m mich instead of Photoprism, at least for this usecase. I have both running, but I use Photoprism primarily to organize and share pictures taken with my SLR, while Immich handles Automatic Backups and sorting of all the pictures I take with my phone. Additionally Immich has way better (and still offline) facial detection, it’s almost scary how good it is sometimes

    • DangerousInternet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Have you tried PhotoStructure? I tried Immich and LibrePhotos and PhotoPrism, PhotoPrism is better for organizing photos, importing is easy with Syncthing. But PhotoStructure is different, it is more like a gallery, and it has really awesome approach to view photos. I absolutly love it.