Self Hosted Photo Backups - Photoprism & Photosync - Let's ditch iCloud...

I've never really been a fan of the iCloud system for backing up my photos, so I didn't have photos from my phone backed. That was until I discovered Photoprism and Photosync, which are way better and completely self hosted.

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0:00 Intro
0:50 What you need
1:55 My Photoprism Setup
4:05 Photoprism Walkthrough
13:44 Photosync App
20:55 Wrap-Up
21:45 Comment of the Week
22:48 Conclusion

[RaidOwl]

Head up, if you are on Android and don’t see the Photoprism option in PhotoSync then use WebDAV as it’ll give you the same outcome.

[EnzoBergstrom]

Finally someone showing a valid alternative!

I need powerful search function in my photos or the backups is worthless for me.

[leandrotami]

the main issue with Photosync is that since I'm trying not to pay an eternal subscription to Apple or Google, the app being based on a subscription model makes no sense to me. My main motivation to set up something like this is that I want to own my data and not to pay some company for my entire lifetime or worse, have my data held as hostage until I pay

[skattterdude]

I love these NAS videos . Just got a NAS a few months ago and your videos have been invaluable

[JoshRBuchanan]

Thank you! Two years later this helped me out so much.

[Senberksen]

Tested and worked instant, i hosted the PhotoPrism on my unraid linux setup. Great thanks for sharing and showing the features of the tools.

[aomedina]

It worked really great for sharing my Christmas photos with all family. I took photos, uploaded to the folder, my wife did her picking of the best photos and created an album, then we just emailed the link to that album. Hopefully in the future they add multiuser. Having my wife and kids get their own user name would be safer...she likes deleting. I made the database read-only for now.

[aomedina]

I set this up a month ago. It's great 👍. I'm putting together a new server specifically for it. Just a think station thing from eBay with a new drive. It's great.

[ntgm]

A SMB share and FolderSync on Android works pretty well to back photos up, or whole phone data, on a schedule if you want. Not the only solution, just another one. Still neat to see Photoprism. Thanks.

[kashisrinath]

Thanks for sharing this video. Super helpful! Do you have a recommendation for a reasonably priced NAS system that can interface well with the UCG-Ultra. This NAS will only be used to host photos and videos from our personal devices.

[benchristensen]

This looks sick! Docker sounds intimidating so I may just start with Photosync. I've been spending the past couple days trying to create a home media server on a 2011 mac mini my dad had lying around. I was planning to buy a Direct Attached Storage and setup RAID on a few hard drives for storing my own photos, videos, and movies. But I can't find any way to view photos on the mac from my iPhone using native Apple apps! So I think I'll build a PC with a bunch of hard drives and use photo sync to store all the photos and videos my wife and I take. That way I don't have to pay for iCloud. Once I've got that all setup and photosync going, maybe I'll be ready to look into docker. I saw Jellyfin is supposed to also be able to handle home photos and videos.

[matycz]

I was just looking to self host Photo Backup on my RPi.
Thanks man for the video!

[PeterPrestonUK]

I have used Photosync for a few years and was impressed enough to buy the Pro version (I didn't even know there was a Premium option). The only thing that really drives me crazy is the lack of multiple select from source: I have to either do ALL or select one by one - no swipe of range option (that I've ever seen). Clicking on 100+ photos is tedious, and that's not even a busy day.

[kiloy]

Thank you sir. Prism has been my photo app and it is rock solid. Now I am moving to immich which I don't have to mimic with other apps. You should try!

[zakoalax]

Thank you very much, may be i can switch from Syncthing to Syncphoto... :)

[vonwerderc]

Does photosync preserve all the metadata when you export the photos? When I try to combine my families vacation photos their iphones strip all the metadata and they all show up out of order.

[mordechaisanders]

What are the advantages of PhotoPrism over NextCloud with Memories app?

[gswhite]

Just come across this video. Fantastic video, really helpful, thanks!

Apparently now PhotoPrism supports multi-User? Any chance of an update :D

[MikeANGEL-bm]

Great review and covering all possible uses cases. Great! 😊

[ChrisRider]

Appreciate the video. I currently have several different file shares of photos and videos. Most are backed up to cloud services, but it is a pain trying to find pictures or managing them.