I’m considering setting up a NAS to backup my stuff and replace Google Photos. Currently I’m looking at Asustor AS6704T and Synology DS923+, with the former having more powerful hardware and hardware encoding, and the latter having a better first party software experience.

Some quick comparisons show me that Synology Photos is infinitely better than Asustor Photo Gallery. AI face recognition, content tagging, and reverse Geocoding are features I’ve gotten used to in Google photos, which Synology has and Asustor doesn’t.
I’m also aware of but not really familiar with other photo backup/management solutions, namely Immich, Photoprism, Piwigo, and Lychee. Immich would probably fit me the best, but Piwigo with plugins would support Photosphere photos that I occasionally take with my Pixel.

So I guess I’m asking you guys what your preferred photo backup solution is? I probably should mention that I personally take photos with a Pixel (jpg and MP4 files), but my family uses iPhones (heic and mov files). No RAW photos for now, but for those who do and would edit photos, how would you manage them?

  • bubberstarteletscam@feddit.dkEnglish
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    1 year ago

    PhotoPrism seems to be a very popular alternative. I’ve played with it a little but since I’m already battling Apple getting my photos into Google Photos, it’ll be a while till I commit to the next platform since I don’t want to be merging from 2 large bases at once.

    AFAIR it’s freemium but I can’t find the limitations or pricing so I might remember that wrong and here’s features/pricing, doesn’t look unreasonable.

    • sunbeam60@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Heavy user of PhotoPrism here (75000+) and I LOVE it - can’t recommend it enough. Easy to self-host, decent face recognition, ok video support (with HW transcoding if present). Still under very active development but very full-featured already.

    • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I haven’t updated this year yet because by April they had none, but do they have multi-user implemented yet?

      I see it on the featurelist as the 73€ per year plan, but as far as I knew, it wasn’t implemented. I thought they said it would come to the normal version earlier?

      I just want to use it will 2 named users for me and my girlfriend lol