I’m kind of surprised I’ve struggled with this so long. Right now I’ve been using nextcloud camera upload, and mostly it works ok but shits the bed once in a while without me noticing and I need to spend time fixing it and it’s never as simple as turning it off and on again.

I recently tried syncthing, and while it works, it frequently crashed and got stuck in a state where it says it’s on and working by my destination folder is shown as disconnected, and the options to restart syncthing from the side menu are greyed out and the only way to make it work again is by force closing it and reopening it.

I’m running vanilla stock Google Android and truenas, does anyone have a better solution?

  • Lemmchen@feddit.orgEnglish
    7·
    9 days ago

    When SyncThing is correctly configured (battery optimizations , etc.), you won’t have any issues. (I’ve been using SyncThing for many many years now.)

    • yeehaw@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      I might wipe data from syncthing and try again, I think I accidentally screwed up one of those settings and was never prompted again thereafter.

  • 3aqn5k6ryk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    9 days ago

    As others has posted. Immich or photoprism. But, i’d check your settings, nextcloud instant upload and syncthing work wonders for me.

    • yeehaw@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      I wasn’t aware that either of these had a syncing feature. How well does immich work? I’ve been looking to switch to it from phptoprism for a while

      • 3aqn5k6ryk@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        Sorry. Couldnt help you with that. I use nextcloud and syncthing myself.

        Havent try immich but i heard immich was the next best thing, be aware though, last i heard even the dev said the app was in active development so things might break.

        • yeehaw@lemmy.caOPEnglish
          1·
          8 days ago

          I think it’s because I have 150GB of photos on 2 different phones and don’t clean them out often.

      • IncogCyberspaceUser@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 days ago

        I’m getting my first server up and running and always considered getting immich. But lately I’m leaning towards photoprism because of updates breaking immich sometimes apparently and photoprism being more mature(?).
        Why do you want to switch?

    • lemming741@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      9 days ago

      Photoprism recommends you download a $5 app. It works ok enough, but they are clearly trying to monetize.

  • Teppichbrand@feddit.orgEnglish
    4·
    8 days ago

    I use Syncthing to sync DCIM and Pictures folders from Android to my computer. Every six month or so, I move pictures from these folder to the folder for this years pictures: home/pictures/2025. So they disappear from my phone as well, which is great to free up space. This works great for me.

    • yeehaw@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      I played more and got it working a bit better. Where it becomes a management nightmare is how it’s designed. Too much of a hassle to sync between a server and DHCP clients over different vlans.

  • highball@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    9 days ago

    rclone is pretty reliable. That’s how I back up my nextcloud to two different object storage sites. I have Nextcloud dockerized on a VPS in the cloud (among other dockerized services for selfhosting). Been syncing nonstop for 3 years now. I also used rclone to sync all my files from OneDrive directly to my VPS block storage. Rclone is a very underrated utility.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    9 days ago

    Check your Syncthing settings. It’s a very reliable piece of software. Other than that Immich, but that’s a slightly different use case.

    • yeehaw@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      I figured it out. It gets a little more complex when you’re using a reverse proxy and inter-vlan routing lol.

      Too much of a hassle for me, unless I dump the instance on my wifi network but if I set this up I’d like the option to use it for my other vlans too.

  • oyzmo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    9 days ago
    1. USB cable from iPhone to PC.
    2. Sort by date in filemanager.
    3. Copy all images since last date backed up to my PC.
    4. Review and delete crappy images.
    5. Move to my NAS via filemanager.
    6. Create a textfile called t.ex. 07juli (so that next time I know to copy files after this date, since I like to keep most pics on my phone).

    Do this once or twice a month :)

  • Scholars_Mate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    9 days ago

    I’ve been using FolderSync. It let’s you sync to/from a remote server through a bunch of different protocols like SMB, SFTP, and WebDAV. You can schedule it to run automatically.

    I haven’t tried it myself, but I think there is a way you can get Tasker to run scripts in Termux. You could set up your own rsync scripts that way.