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?
PhotoPrism is closest to Google Photos. Deals with tags, dups, auto-faces, Geo, etc and looks mostly same.
Is that self-hosted software?
Yes, you can run it locally with docker/podman.
Does the face recognition run locally too?
Yes, everything runs locally. TensorFlow library recognize faces, scenes, tags, colors, etc. Tags have lots of errors, like cats could also contains other animals or cars could contain trains. But it is OK I guess, just some small feature, if you need you may edit everything from tags to faces. Faces recognition is better, mostly no mismatches.
Sounds like something I need to get… Off to github I go! (I assume)
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
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.