By web based I mean they’re not a native desktop program and such.

Just curious, but is there anything that provides background sync on iOS except iCloud?

Thanks. I’ve actually already seen it, but it wasn’t enough as it only listed web hosted solutions and I found most of them lacking for my needs. Thankfully others’ comments below are pretty inspiring :)

Thanks. I should try making my requirements clearer. I’m curious, is there a reason you use Resilio despite it being proprietary over other solutions(like rsync scripts)?

Seems like I’ll be going on a setup pretty similar to this. Thanks!

That’s great, I never knew Photoprism can detect and work with digikam’s sidecar files. Thanks for sharing.

Seems like Syncthing is loved by many :) Not too sure how much it’d differ from rsync scripts, but I’ll give it a try. Thanks!

I don’t have that much data now, I usually lack storage (or computer equipments in general) so I tend to not store much. Those laptops have about 1TB storage each so that would hopefully be enough for me now. As they’re old and have ODD I can also have two drives on one, but I’m not sure if that’s needed for me now. I’d avoid external drives as they aren’t really reliable.

I see. Thanks for sharing your setup :)

I see. The lack of a desktop client seems to be Immich’s biggest con. I guess NextCloud wouldn’t be the best choice here. Thanks for replying.

Nice. So you have home folders of each machines in NextCloud? Are you using their official client to sync automatically or on a certain schedule? I never knew Jellyfin can be used as a photo library. Thanks :)

I wish lol. I don’t have a dedicated(?) hardware, just multiple laptops in various locations. They’ve ran pretty stable for the last few years of 24/7 use though. I’m thinking having some files synced to local would be enough backup, compared to none i have now (aside from few manual work).

Thanks for replying. Is there a reason you use Immich over NextCloud’s NextCloud Photos? Also I’ve occasionally heard NextCloud is pretty slow, is it okay for you? You’re using their official client program to sync files?

i don’t think you’ll be able to run a proper linux distro with mainline kernel on it, better get an sbc like orange/rock/raspberry pi/odroid.

Yeah it seems to have bunch of plugins but it’s not working well for some reason… :(

You’re right that it’s not ideal, but somehow people like it… :/

Thanks anyway, I’ll try if that works.

Thanks. I’ll try Ejabberd as well :)

Looks interesting, but isn’t this slow though?

Our chatroom is very active and the members won’t move if it’s much slower compared to Discord unfortunately…

As I mentioned in the OP I tried Prosody on my FreeBSD server, I’ve yet to get attachments working.

Thanks, actually [email protected] mentioned it earlier lol. I’m planning to try this as I get a linux box running.