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I'm considering setting up a NAS to backup my stuff and replace Google Photos. Currently I'm looking at Asustor AS6704T and Synology DS923+, with the former having more powerful hardware and hardware encoding, and the latter having a better first party software experience.

Some quick comparisons show me that Synology Photos is infinitely better than Asustor Photo Gallery. AI face recognition, content tagging, and reverse Geocoding are features I've gotten used to in Google photos, which Synology has and Asustor doesn't.
I'm also aware of but not really familiar with other photo backup/management solutions, namely Immich, Photoprism, Piwigo, and Lychee. Immich would probably fit me the best, but Piwigo with plugins would support Photosphere photos that I occasionally take with my Pixel.

So I guess I'm asking you guys what your preferred photo backup solution is? I probably should mention that I personally take photos with a Pixel (jpg and MP4 files), but my family uses iPhones (heic and mov files). No RAW photos for now, but for those who do and would edit photos, how would you manage them?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I've been using a Synology for quite some time, and I started using Synology Photos when it was first released. I've got somewhere around 85,000 photos in it now, and it's been great.

Face recognition pales compared to Google's, but I feel that's to be expected given the slight difference in computational resources.

I back up my phone, my wife's phones (work and home), and our DSLR photos. It works as expected and has been rock solid.

I've used it on a DS1019+ and now have it running on a DS1821+.

I've tried photoprism and while I was quite impressed, it wasn't quite there for me.

My most important feature by far is automatic backup and I've had zero issues outside of having to reauthenticate occasionally.

As always, YMMV... But it's been great for me.

[–] falkerie71 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Glad Synology photos have been working great for you! Really considering it as a setup and forget solution.
Does Synology photos have content aware tagging like search for dogs, food, landscape, etc.? It's not a must for me but would be nice to have. And if the AI face detection got someone wrong, are you able to fix it or merge the same faces? Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No, it doesn't have content aware functionality. I really wish it did, though having tried it with photoprism, I wasn't impressed. Most of my pictures tagged with cat wither had no animal, or my dog. Maybe 150 out of 5000 cat pictures (my wife and I have been taking digital photos since the late 90s) got tagged as having a cat in them.

If the facial recognition is wrong, you can correct it, yes.

I'd say it's a bit less accurate than Lightroom if you've used that for recognition.

Like many others have said, I'm keeping an eye on immich and plan to try it soon just to see!

(Deleted other reply by mistake!)

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