I’ve set up a self hosted photo system with immich, and it works doing automatic backups of photos from the filesystem, eg using termux/cron, although it is a bit flakey. Immich also works for backup, but it’s less ideal.

iPhone seems to be a lot harder, backup in immich doesn’t work, it seems that iPhones have a complicated was of handling background tasks which make background backups very difficult.

Does anyone know a way of doing any kind of backup automatically, without plugging in a cable and without using iCloud?

    • terminal@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      5 days ago

      I can second this. Photosync works very well. Although i had to use an external library on immich so that photosync can directly send files to that folder.

    • eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Have you tried it yourself? Does it work hands-off in a set and forget way, or do you have to open it for the background tasks to run?

      • comrademiao@piefed.socialEnglish
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        17 hours ago

        Yeah, I use it every day and have synced over 80k photos and videos to my servers with it. I absolutely love it. I know of no other option and I do not trust Immich or Nextcloud sync. I have never ever had an issue with photosync and if there is ever a rare error it tells me why.

        I have it set to rsync to my local server. I open the app. It has already selected the recent media that is unsynced to said location. I then press sync and it does it in the background.

        I believe the paid level above pro has some sort of auto sync based on location but I chose to not get that because I didn’t need it.

        Super, super recommend!