Has anyone migrated from Apple Photos to Nextcloud or other self hosted solution?

vitobotta

@user123 said:

@vitobotta said:
Just set up Immich and am now using the CLI tool to upload my photo library. Estimated 9h so it's not too bad. It's already recognising faces wow.

Doesn't it rename and reorganize all of the files? What would you do if you want to change to something else? I'm also interested in Immich, but scared about that.

It renames the files apparently but you can choose the template as to how to organise them. For example I chose to organise them as YYYY/MM/file.ext

@kode9 said:
I have everything on a dedicated server from OVH running ONLY nextcloud.
4 x 3.6TB in raid1 ( I'm a freak I know )

Do you mean RAID 0+1? All 4 in mode 1 sounds a bit too much IMO.

@rsk said:

@vitobotta said:

@bench said:

@Astro said:
Why do you want to move?

he doesn't want to, he just likes to start a new topic on the forum

@FranzVonVirMach said:

@bench said:

@Astro said:
Why do you want to move?

he doesn't want to, he just likes to start a new topic on the forum

There's a slight chance that he will actually move it. Like 2%. And then a week later open a new thread about moving stuff away from the Nextcloud. That's @vitobotta in a nutshell.

I am fucking tired of morons like you who keep attacking me for opening threads as if I was spamming or something. What the hell is wrong with these threads? Get a life.

Ignore the haters! I actually enjoy your threads

Thanks, I appreciate

On topic .. I have tried numerous times to move away from icloud. However, I always come back as I just love the simplicity of having everything just working as expected.

For now I set this up and will keep it for a while, see how the mobile upload works and then decide if to continue paying for 2TB of iCloud storage.

vitobotta

@davi said:
I tried many solutions including nextcloud and finally settled to synology photos as it offer face and even object recognition. It has good mobile apps.

I prefer keeping this stuff on a server outside my home

davi

@vitobotta said:

@davi said:
I tried many solutions including nextcloud and finally settled to synology photos as it offer face and even object recognition. It has good mobile apps.

I prefer keeping this stuff on a server outside my home

Sure, you can if you use xpenology and easy to setup this inside proxmox VM

asdatasd

@vitobotta said: I am definitely going with Immich after reading so many positive comments and reviews. I am now waiting for an update to a ticket from Bero Host to add more storage to my VPS to do the migration. Do you guys still use iCloud/Google Photos anyway as primary storage or have you gotten rid of them altogether?

>

I run https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader in the background on my family's account for the photos backups, then having immich on all phones - purging needs to be done manually.

asdatasd

Also, for Nextcould I recommend to check out memories - https://github.com/pulsejet/memories

vitobotta

@asdatasd said:

@vitobotta said: I am definitely going with Immich after reading so many positive comments and reviews. I am now waiting for an update to a ticket from Bero Host to add more storage to my VPS to do the migration. Do you guys still use iCloud/Google Photos anyway as primary storage or have you gotten rid of them altogether?

>

I run https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader in the background on my family's account for the photos backups, then having immich on all phones - purging needs to be done manually.

Why don't you just have a Photo Library synced with iCloud?

meditatingsurgeon

@vitobotta said: What the hell is wrong with these threads?

@vitobotta think of all the people you inspire who may not comment on the threads
I really enjoy them.

raza19

@vitobotta said:

@raza19 said:
Google photos to nextcloud. Regretting it ever since.

I haven't read good things about Nextcloud's photo management so I can guess

So, i manage all phone and photo needs of my family. When my wife's drive space was almost full I decided to move all the family's photos to nextcloud and thought to myself why shud i pay for google's space when i have a ton of idling servers lying around. I took all the data down from google takeout, upload to nextcloud instance was easy. Used an epyc for code files and nfs cached folder for data.
Started immediately realizing problems with uploaded video files, when it took wife forever to play them on the nextcloud app. I had to setup an automatic file conversion for video so nextcloud cud successfully stream videos. But even then the system was unreliable. The family started complaining about nextcloud being dull and boring since unlike google photos it was not AI generating random albums that google has really gotten good over the last few years.
Eventually I bit the bullet and paid for the google one subscription, pretty cheap really. Now, nextcloud apps in the background keep backing up photos but it is just that, a backup solution and nothing more. Plus i often find terrible clashes in logs where nextcloud enters infinite upload loops trying to upload same files over and over again.

vitobotta

@meditatingsurgeon said:

@vitobotta said: What the hell is wrong with these threads?

@vitobotta think of all the people you inspire who may not comment on the threads
I really enjoy them.

Thanks for the kind words

asdatasd

@vitobotta said: Why don't you just have a Photo Library synced with iCloud?

>
Two reasons:
1. Kids that randomly delete photos when they get the phone.
2. My parents never delete photos, so they end up using up all the iCloud space. They also don't remember to use immich that often - I back it up and sync it over to an external directory on immich.

Sululu

@vitobotta said:

@meditatingsurgeon said:

@vitobotta said: What the hell is wrong with these threads?

@vitobotta think of all the people you inspire who may not comment on the threads
I really enjoy them.

Thanks for the kind words

I am one of those people. I do enjoy your threads and I think people like you should be encouraged and not vilified.

Keep them coming...

einverne

@asdatasd said:
Also, for Nextcould I recommend to check out memories - https://github.com/pulsejet/memories

This modification of Nextcloud looks great.

vitobotta

@asdatasd said:

@vitobotta said: Why don't you just have a Photo Library synced with iCloud?

>
Two reasons:
1. Kids that randomly delete photos when they get the phone.

Do you share the same library with them?

2. My parents never delete photos, so they end up using up all the iCloud space. They also don't remember to use immich that often - I back it up and sync it over to an external directory on immich.

@Sululu said:

@vitobotta said:

@meditatingsurgeon said:

@vitobotta said: What the hell is wrong with these threads?

@vitobotta think of all the people you inspire who may not comment on the threads
I really enjoy them.

Thanks for the kind words

I am one of those people. I do enjoy your threads and I think people like you should be encouraged and not vilified.

Keep them coming...

Thanks ❤️

@einverne said:

@asdatasd said:
Also, for Nextcould I recommend to check out memories - https://github.com/pulsejet/memories

This modification of Nextcloud looks great.

Looks interesting and I might give it a try if I am running into problems with Immich. Search with Immich is a bit weird

Astro

@raza19 thats why I switched to seafile and sftpgo for basic webdav based backups. Nextcloud is just way too much work.

asdatasd

@vitobotta said: Do you share the same library with them?

>
No, but they do get their hands on the grandparent's devices, and ours.