Immich is pretty much a self hosted version of Google Photos. I highly recommend it. It’s under very active development. I’ve been using it for a few months now and it’s been rock solid despite all the dev on it.
just answering to file transfer problem: i’m using filebrowser.org for my clients to upload images and videos. it doesnt have solutions for choppy internet tho.
for that, i could recommend syncthing.net that synchronizes folder contents, and can resume if there’s network problems. however you’d need to create a process that moves the synchronized files out of the folders once done, to prevent buildup at the client side. i would recommend using a separate share for every reporter…
An SFTP server in my own experience is not that reliable for spotty cellular network. Probably the best will be using something like this : www.resilio.com/individuals/. I believe with this one if the connection is lost it can recheck for the missing part of the file and restart again.
I'm a big fan of Backblaze; $50 per year for unlimited backup for one device, and you can generate your own encryption key so they can't access your data.
I don't think Backblaze's personal unlimited tier is going to easily support op's Synology. I'm sure there's a way to get it to work, but their B2 service integrates with Synology and is the appropriate route to take. Op's looking for redundancy. I wouldn't want to rely on an unsupported work around to guarantee my data when they offer a service that's targeted towards what they want to accomplish.
Backblaze B2 is probably going to be the cheapest and seamless options since they say it integrates with Synology NAS. It's $5/TB/month.
Microsoft Azure Archive storage looks like it might be cheaper per month, but that's just going based on storage costs alone. This guide has a pretty decent explanation of examples of the cost to upload and store it.
Backblaze B2 has the synology integration and op wouldn't have to think about the costs of being able to access or retrieve the data from something like Azure cold or archive storage tiers, since B2 is sold as a hot storage option.
I’ll also vouch for Backblaze’s B2 plan; works well with Synology, and has great reporting options to let you know if you’re approaching your budgeted value, and web-based browsing tools to verify what data they got successfully sent to them.
The backup service is good, inexpensive and easy to set up, so easy to recommend.
I now use their B2 service with duplicati (available as a docker container, but idk how well it works with Synology). It's dirt cheap and equally reliable, but requires more setup by the user, and you must follow good practise and do a test restore of some files to make sure it works.
So it's really a trade-off, depending on what you want to prioritise.
I'm somewhat tempted by B2 but $5/TB/mo feels a bit steep for a NAS.
For me that would be about $100/mo, and for OP that's $25/mo. It would only take a few months before buying a drive for off site cold backup would be more cost effective.
Considering their personal plan is $7/mo for unlimited TBs, it really invites hobbiests to find workarounds after their first TB. Unless I'm missing something.
My go-to backup strategy is USB hard drives. They’re cheap, they’re fast, and nobody’s going to even try to decrypt them. Buy several, put them in a safety deposit box at your bank, rotate them weekly, and nothing short of a nuclear weapon will destroy every copy of your data at the same time.
I'm not entirely sure how it holds up under spotty conditions, but have you looked into something like OwnCloud, which has an Android client that will automatically backup photos and videos from the camera app to the server.
Hetzner.com Storage Box might be worth looking into. I have no personal experience with it yet but I’m considering it.
5TB is about 13€/month. You get 20 Snapshots for data safety. It supports a lot of protocols like cifs and rclone which makes it possible to mount as a network drive and encrypt remote backups with rclone crypt.
If you mean by laying it on its side, I did it because the case has punch out side panels. They're both plexi glass too, so I assume it would shatter under the weight of this pc. (~40kg)
Can you post more pics? It's hard to make out the shape of the computer and space available. I'm interested to see how this is the more space efficient way.
EDIT: I've added a link to that page in the part of the insecure "Getting Started" that says "this is insecure don't do it this way". Hopefully that helps people in the right direction a bit more - but I have a long road of more documentation ahead of me.
As always - any and all contributions are welcome :)
I have a Dell R720XD as my home NAS. I bought it used off eBay. The XD version has 12x 3.5" drive bays. I have eight of them occupied with 8TB spinning disks. The server runs TrueNAS and the disks are part of a ZFS RAID. I spent a few hundred dollars on the server itself, a hundred or so on more RAM, and $2200 on the hard drives.
I am running a AMD Athlon(tm) X4 860K Quad Core Processor with 32GiB of RAM, Radeon HD 7450, 16TiB of HDD storage and 256GiB SSD. The only upgrade I am considering is buying 4TiB SSD drives to replace the HDD drives, this is only because I've noticed SSD's have gotten really cheap.
I would plan for Docker and not Virtual Machines, as VM's emulate an entire computer and then you run an entire operating system within them and then the application, the result is they need far more resources to act as a host for an application. Server applications have been moving to Docker because its a defined way to sandbox applications, run them consistently and uses far less resources.
I then deployed Portainer Community Edition on to the server, this provides a Web UI to manage the docker contaners running on the server. I have 9 docker containers currently running on the server.
You mentioned Plex: Plex provide a docker image for running their application that supports NVidia GPU Acceleration and seems to run fine on AMD hardware. You will find almost every server application offers an official docker image.
With my business hat on, think how many docker containers you want and plan for that + 1 cores in your CPU, you can probably look up the applications you want to run and add up their recommended RAM usage, as a home rule of thumb 16 GiB of RAM is the minimum, 64GiB would be overkill.
Not related to your initial issue.. but a quick question as it appears you might have already figured out a lot regarding hosting your own instance.
Do you know if you can lock it down so that only you have an account on the instance? I’d like to run my own but I’d want membership locked so I just use the instance to federate content.
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