What is the best way to sync images to my NAS?

[avidamoeba@lemmy.ca]

Check your Syncthing settings. It's a very reliable piece of software. Other than that Immich, but that's a slightly different use case.

[3aqn5k6ryk@lemmy.world]

Sorry. Couldnt help you with that. I use nextcloud and syncthing myself.

Havent try immich but i heard immich was the next best thing, be aware though, last i heard even the dev said the app was in active development so things might break.

[highball@lemmy.world]

rclone is pretty reliable. That's how I back up my nextcloud to two different object storage sites. I have Nextcloud dockerized on a VPS in the cloud (among other dockerized services for selfhosting). Been syncing nonstop for 3 years now. I also used rclone to sync all my files from OneDrive directly to my VPS block storage. Rclone is a very underrated utility.

[incogcyberspaceuser@lemmy.world]

I'm getting my first server up and running and always considered getting immich. But lately I'm leaning towards photoprism because of updates breaking immich sometimes apparently and photoprism being more mature(?).
Why do you want to switch?

[oyzmo@lemmy.world]

1. USB cable from iPhone to PC.
2. Sort by date in filemanager.
3. Copy all images since last date backed up to my PC.
4. Review and delete crappy images.
5. Move to my NAS via filemanager.
6. Create a textfile called t.ex. 07juli (so that next time I know to copy files after this date, since I like to keep most pics on my phone).

Do this once or twice a month

[appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

After managing pictures from my phones and DSLR I finally took the time to set up immich.
And it was definitely worth it.

[appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Any suggestions on how to optimize it?
Using it on my steamdeck and on-demand on my phone.

[appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Didnt have any issue so far with immich.
A case of not reading the release notes? (no offense just asking)
And tbf, they say they arent fully done for now. Essentially a very public beta.

[incogcyberspaceuser@lemmy.world]

Good to know, thank you!
It wasn't very clear, but that was based on other people's comments; I haven't gotten to installing either of them. (I need to get on it lol).
But that makes sense. I saw people say just don't auto update, because it is early days like you said.

[appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

They explicitly mention in the deployment steps to pin the release number.
After that it's just a case of reading the patch notes and looking out for breaking changes.

And obviously keeping backups

[lemmchen@feddit.org]

Set up a "global" ignore file that gets synced between devices. Call it .stignoreglobal for example and and change the .stignore file (which doesnt get synced) on every device to only include #include .stignoreglobal. Now your ignore state gets synced between devices and you can make changes from anywhere.

Mine looks like this:

// Incomplete Downloads
*.part
*.crdownload

// OS-generated files
desktop.ini
Thumbs.db

// Cache
cache
spotifycache

// Unity analytics
Unity

// LineageOS updater
org.lineageos.updater

// No read access :(
/Android/{data,obb}

You can learn how to write one yourself here: https://docs.syncthing.net/users/ignoring.html

Other stuff:

• On Android I use this: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingandroid/
• Some Info on how you can reduce battery usage: https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android/blob/main/wiki/Info-on-battery-optimization-and-settings-affecting-battery-usage.md
• Make sure SyncThing is excluded from your phone's battery optimizations (varies by vendor).
• To save on mobile bandwidth I have it set up to only sync on WiFi.
• You can set up a symmetric key (basically a password) and sync your stuff to a friends instance. Your friend will not be able to read the data without the key (make sure it's a long random string). This also helps if you're running a SyncThing instance on a VPS for example.

[appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Neat!

I am already using a selective sync for my emulator save data between my NAS, PC and steamdeck in a triangle sync and on top another sync for the data I generate on my phone.

[teppichbrand@feddit.org]

I use Syncthing to sync DCIM and Pictures folders from Android to my computer. Every six month or so, I move pictures from these folder to the folder for this years pictures: home/pictures/2025. So they disappear from my phone as well, which is great to free up space. This works great for me.

[cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca]

I played more and got it working a bit better. Where it becomes a management nightmare is how it's designed. Too much of a hassle to sync between a server and DHCP clients over different vlans.

[cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca]

This works well, but not when you have 13k/150GB of photos lol

[cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca]

I think it's because I have 150GB of photos on 2 different phones and don't clean them out often.

[lemmyrick@lemmy.zip]

Rsync, termux widget with a bash. Press button and it syncs my photos to my server filesystem

[cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca]

I figured it out. It gets a little more complex when you're using a reverse proxy and inter-vlan routing lol.

Too much of a hassle for me, unless I dump the instance on my wifi network but if I set this up I'd like the option to use it for my other vlans too.

[cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca]

Sounds like the easiest method lol. At least that way I could add in something to delete photos after copying them if they're X days old.

[lemmyrick@lemmy.zip]

Definitely easiest and most manual, but not "robust" I guess but its hard for it to fail you're more likely to have user error than system error