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📣 notyourday

"Smart” photo backup software for Android/iOS


In the spirit of the recent posts about Google Photos alternatives does anyone have any leads on the software/mobile clients that can do some or all of the following:

* configure types backup targets ( local network reachable/globally reachable )

* use GPS to determine if the target ( local network ) should be reachable ( it makes no sense to attempt to backup to a server located at my house at 4am if I'm travelling )

* backup at settings to trigger backups only at a specific time

* support multiple synchronization polices such as updated file on a mobile will update a file on a target, but updated file on a target would not update a file on a mobile and reverse ( preferably including separate support for policies on deleted files ), preferably a default and a per-folder policies

* support for a concept of "archived offline" media i.e. media that has been backed up to the server, marked as backed up on a server and removed from the server would be treated as present on a server for the purposes of skipping backup of a non-modified media on a mobile device without it needing to be present on a server. Should the media be updated on a mobile, the normal update policies would apply


  👤 mceachen Accepted Answer ✓
There's a discussion about these apps on my forum that might be helpful: https://forum.photostructure.com/t/automatic-phone-uploads/2...

I've been using Resilio Sync on my Android device and my NAS. I bought a family license a couple years ago.

I haven't seen any apps that naively support gps or time based hooks, fwiw, but sync-vs-backup mode is a common feature.