Spec me an open source cloud backup management system (with photo storage)

MrRockliffe

MrRockliffe

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Hi all

Due to the ongoing issues with Microsoft OneDrive and shared folders (since June), I'm looking to migrate my entire cloud backup system to another provider. The issue being that shared folders show as internet shortcuts within OneDrive on your machine, rather than local folders. This means if I share a folder full of files with somebody, they can only access this folder from online - they are unable to sync it to their machine. The same happens the other way round. This is core functionality which I use daily, so I need an alternative.




I used to use Google, but had endless problems with the photos backup and constant duplicates/deletion. At one point, it deleted all my photos from 2018 backwards permanently, and they are completely lost.



Does anybody have any good, solid recommendations? Since I've already done the change once, I don't want to do it again after the second time :-)


Thanks
 
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My first thought would be Amazon Photos. If you have Prime should have unlimited full res photo storage and I seem to be showing up to 5GB for Video.

But i'll be honest, not used it much at all myself, so don't have any real pro/con stories. But it was my first next thought after you mentioned Google and OneDrive.
 
nade said:
My first thought would be Amazon Photos. If you have Prime should have unlimited full res photo storage and I seem to be showing up to 5GB for Video.

But i'll be honest, not used it much at all myself, so don't have any real pro/con stories. But it was my first next thought after you mentioned Google and OneDrive.
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Thanks for the recommendation, however I don't have Prime and not sure of the longevity of an Amazon backup service, since they discontinued Amazon Drive
 
Bumping this due to the Microsoft price increases for family, from £80 a year to £105.


Looking to build my own backup system using something open source to manage it.



Does anyone have any suggestions?
 
Sirrel Squirrel said:
Dropbox is really good but I personally use Google Drive as it's bundled with my mobile contract. Which is why I also used to use Dropbox.
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Looking to move to a platform which allows me to host and manage my own cloud backup.


If I’m paying £100 a year, in 3 years I’ll have enough to do my own server, and won’t need to pay afterwards.
 
MrRockliffe said:
Looking to move to a platform which allows me to host and manage my own cloud backup.


If I’m paying £100 a year, in 3 years I’ll have enough to do my own server, and won’t need to pay afterwards.
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You could just get a NAS like a Synology with 2x4TB drives for around £400.

I'm not familiar with any opensource stuff really, I used to use freenas and a HP microserver but that cost me like £600 around 10 years ago and it got lost in a house move.
 
I've moved away from OneDrive, which I used heavily for work and NAS backups these past years, and instead moved to Koofr paying £16 for 100GB of space. Too early to say how Koofr is but its got top recommendations all round.

Chucking in AI data harvesting rubbish into 365 was the last straw for me, so I am fully Microsoft free now.
 
Disco_P said:
Look into Immich by FUTO, it seems to be a FOS google photos clone that you can host yourself.
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Never heard of this one before now. But wow you are not wrong that it looks like a clone of Google Photos !

Thanks, going to look into this myself.
 
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