Photo Backups

jaket · 29 Mar 2013 at 09:57

Im trying to figure out the best way to manage the family photos.

I have a centos server, two laptops (windows), an iphone, an ipad and a nexus.

I would like one central copy on the centos server.
I would like the two laptops to access via CIFS (easy part)
I would like the portable devices to backup to the central folder.
I would then like to sync the central folder to either Dropbox or cloud backup solution to ensure they are safe.

Any ideas whats the best app for iphone/ipad to do this? I would also like the iphone/ipad to be able to view all the photos on the central server.

Would like to know what other people do to.

marc2003 · 29 Mar 2013 at 10:19

install dropbox on everything? it has mobile and linux apps too. but what they're like to use, i don't know.

i'd presume they'd have selective sync like the windows version so you don't end up with the whole lot on each device.

jaket · 29 Mar 2013 at 10:36

Hmm maybe the easy solution.

theheyes · 29 Mar 2013 at 10:51

I would use a cloud service as my main repo, and just have that sync with a folder on a desktop or server.

e.g. I use SkyDrive, which has cross platform apps. Even the camera roll on my phone gets backed up to SkyDrive automatically. I then just have the desktop version on my Windows box syncing as an offline copy.

So I have offsite, on-site and if you back up your desktop you've even got snapshots.

jaket · 29 Mar 2013 at 13:14

Thanks,

Just setup drop box on android and iPad, need a bit more time over the weekend to setup command line drop box on centos.