Syncthing, super easy to set up and use on android and linux. It works with everything, not just photos.
To access files stored on my home server from my phone, I use Material Files with sftp set up
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Syncthing is awesome. I'm never losing data to a damaged or stolen device again, and it makes accessing data from a computer and sending data to the phone so much easier.
But we have to keep in mind that syncthing doesn't protect by default us from accidental deletion, so it's not a 100% replacement for a backup.
Quote Syncthing! I've also a Nextcloud instance shared with my girlfriend in order to share selected photos.
I recently set up an immich server.
Yes! Immich is incredible. It's a self hosted Google images for anyone that doesn't know, and it's really close to being an exact replica.
I absolutely love it. https://immich.app/
Google 1. I should really do a manual back up as well but I get lazy.
I use syncthing. Once setup its really nice.
Personally, I prefer using a cable to transfer photos and videos from my device to my PC. Once they are on my computer, I make sure to back them up onto external hard drives.
immich is really promising. Works well for the basic stuff (and quickly adding features) but it's still early days.
I just use Google Photos.
Wothhe spirit of degoogling and looking at your own drive backups, look into Synology drive and Photos as your photos and cloud backup.
Look into getting a USB-C flash drive and transfer the photos to that. You can find a 128gb drive for $15.
Plug in to lappy, run shell script that crawls DCIM for dngs, jpgs, mp4s etc and sticks em in folders named by date
Syncthing-fork /sdcard so I don't need to worry about losing my phone. Saved me when my nexus 5x suddenly boot looped
I just pay for Google Photos and forget about it, it's the easiest way and worth my money. Most apps are backed up in a server anyway.
I ran out of space on my Google photos 😔 I've converted to Christianity and pray every night to God in heaven that my phone doesn't die.