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I have a folder on my unraid that has about 25gb of photos and home movies.

Currently I'm the only person that knows how to access any of it, but I would like to share it with my SO and my kids. Also maybe family remotely. I think it would be cool if my wife could back up her stuff to it as well in addition to icloud, so we could all share photos.

Currently, I have my photos from my phone backing up from the phone to google photos (which I'm out of room on), amazon photos and dropbox. Once a month or so I copy all of the photos from my dropbox to my folder.

I've researched both Nextcloud and Immich until I'm blue in the face and have installed both. Both seem good and have ups and downs.

Ideally, I would stop backing up to everywhere else but what I pick. So backing up from my photne automagically is important. Probably also from my ipad. I can setup access externally so that's not a big deal for either.

Being able to tag and categorize photos would be nice, or even just be able to group them on the same day would be great. They all have some exif info but not all have correct info. A lot of photos were gotten from CVS from film and etc. I think having some ai face detection would be great too. So I can find all the pics of my kids without manually tagging them all.

Has anyone tackled this more and have some insights to share?

I like the idea of next cloud because I think I could also replace dropbox with it, which would make some stuff easier as well. I have 25+TB free on my server, so I could conceivably have both but is it worth it? But immich seems really nice even though its under active development.