I currently use Nextcloud and Immich, Nextcloud on iOS is garbage though, it can’t auto upload files if they are too big, even with the application open.
Immich is great, but is under very active development, so it could break any time. I take backups of the images and store it in my array, and external HDD and Google Drive (encrypted, nothing I upload to G drive is unencrypted). Immich is stores content in a complicated directory structure that goes 3-4 folders deep, I’m hoping to find something that just uploads all my photos and videos to a single folder or two.
iCloud only gives me 5GB, and it’s almost full, and I dont want to pay for G Drive and iCloud+.
Is there another solution I can use to just store photos on my server, that will auto upload from iOS without issue?
Commenting to follow any suggestions that pop up here. iCloud is such a mess for syncing and backing up photos and video.
I use Filen. Not sure if it works with large files however. Filen is E2EE.
Not an answer to OP; I use iCloud, but I still want my own, external backup of that and have found some good solutions.
I previously used icloudpd which I run from docker and that synced all files to a NAS from where I took backups. It works great and I highly recommended.
However, I recently turned on Advanced Data Protection on iCloud, which disables the API icloudpd relied upon, so now I’m using osxphotos instead. It works just as good.
You’ll have to turn on downloading all originals to your Mac for this to work. Personally I had to buy an external disk and move the photo library on my Mac mini server to it to have enough storage.
