Google Photos is ending its Unlimited Free Storage from June 1, 2021

[mikrotik]

Are there any good solutions that can utilize storage capacity in onedrive? Although it can be called a dumb drive.

 

[JB701]

RClone? Rclone

 

[mikrotik]

With rclone, it will still remain a dumb storage.

 

[igloo]

Are there any good solutions that can utilize storage capacity in onedrive? Although it can be called a dumb drive.

Why not use auto caemra roll upload feature of onedrive app?

 

[JB701]

With rclone, it will still remain a dumb storage.

You can mount the onedrive as a letter or a folder and have nextcloud or photoprism use that

 

[manu1991]

@manu1991 Would you be able to guide me on setting things up? I explored Nextcloud and PhotoPrism. But being a noob that I am, am sure I'll face a set of challenges to set things up. Also, PhotoPrism is still not released. And I understand that it has been under development for a few years now and there's no release date yet. Checked its demo and it seems to serve the problem.

All I am looking for is:
1. A place to store my photos (Original resolution)
2. Ability to search the content of the photos - just like Google Photos. It made life so much easier and the guarantee to find the photo that I was looking for.

I do not mind a paid service. The reason I do not want to pay to Google is that all this while they advertised GP as a free service, had us upload all our photos, trained their algorithms and now since they have fully trained their AI, they want us to pay. Again, paying is not a problem, but if I pay them, I want to ensure that my data is completely MINE. They cannot charge me AND also make use of my data and earn from it too.

Any suggestions would be welcome.

I have no experience with it either. I had setup a headless torrent server with rtorrent etc. a few years ago so I assumed it shouldn't be harder than it

I'll keep you posted

 

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[Sachin23]

Thank you for the response. I'll explore the options. Open for running it at home too.
Also exploring NAS..

 

[manu1991]

You plan to run it at home? If so, you should have some kind of redundancy, preferably also store encrypted backups in cloud. With Docker however, both Nextcloud and Photoprism is very easy to setup.

Also, if you setup at home and you are on ISP NAT, then you can't upload/sync from outside without using ZeroTier/Tailscale. My suggestion would be to get a cheap VPS/Server such as one from online.net and have it backup to a server at home.

Errr... I am assuming Excitel is NAT based, what do these services do exactly?

 

[JB701]

Yes, Most ISPs in India including Excitel have carrier grade NAT.

Nextcloud is kinda the equivalent to GDrive/OneDrive except self hosted. The interface is similar to Google Drive. You can see the demo here Nextcloud Demo - nextfiles.de

Photoprism is equivalent to Google Photos and uses AI to tag photos similarly.

There are tons of selfhosted software:

GitHub - awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted: A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers

A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers - awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

github.com

 

[manu1991]

That I know, I was asking about what Zerotier does

When I had done something similar on MTNL, I I just had to use Dynamic DNS to update the changing IP to no-ip and then just access it directly there