Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users

Re:Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Phot... by psanford on Saturday February 27, 2021 @07:30PM (#26289539)

Its really frustrating that there's no good, opensource, Android media backup tool. I just want a simple app that will auto upload photos and videos to an https endpoint (or an S3 bucket).

There are a few tools out there but they all seem to have bit rotted to the point where they don't work reliably on modern Android.

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Re:Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Phot... by Symbiote on Saturday February 27, 2021 @07:54PM (#26289676)

I use Syncthing to synchronize between my phone and desktop.

It's a little confusing to set up the first time, but I've had it on this phone for 3 years and not needed to fiddle with it.

(It uses its own protocol.)

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Re:Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Phot... by aoeuhtns on Saturday February 27, 2021 @08:17PM (#26289784)

Yup, after years of trying to make nextcloud, syncthing, etc work for my workflow (copy from flat photos folder on device -> flat photos staging folder on backup server, then a cron job organizes it into folders by year/month), I finally resorted to something manual. Termux + rsync on android. Every few days, I run the termux shortcut to rsync a folder, and delete what's copied over from my device. It just works.

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Re:Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Phot... by sergimansilla on Sunday February 28, 2021 @01:59AM (#26291248)

PhotoSync is actually very good: https://www.photosync-app.com

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Re:Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Phot... by frabcus on Sunday February 28, 2021 @06:35AM (#26292632)

I really like the iOS version too. With a shortcut I back up all my photos straight to my own SFTP server.

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Re:Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Phot... by psanford on Sunday February 28, 2021 @10:58AM (#26294230)

Is that opensource?

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