I've set up a self hosted photo system with immich, and it works doing automatic backups of photos from the filesystem, eg using termux/cron, although it is a bit flakey. Immich also works for backup, but it's less ideal.

iPhone seems to be a lot harder, backup in immich doesn't work, it seems that iPhones have a complicated was of handling background tasks which make background backups very difficult.

Does anyone know a way of doing any kind of backup automatically, without plugging in a cable and without using iCloud?

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[–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

It's on my mother in law's iPhone, and connects to my server running syncthing. It's very reliable. Been running for around 6 months with no issues. I have 4 mobile devices connecting to my server with syncthing, 3 android 1 iPhone

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