What Photo Solution do you have?
Over time, I've gathered a collection of photos spread across different devices, such as aging computers and obsolete smartphones. What are the common approaches that individuals use to effectively manage photos originating from various family smartphones, dated computers, and similar origins, all while guaranteeing the security of offsite backups for this diverse assortment of pictures? Additionally, what techniques can be employed to track down photos residing on antiquated Windows systems, outdated network drives, and similar locations? How about backing up to the cloud? Where and How?
(AWS? RSYNC?)
Synology Photos. The NAS also backs up to various clouds.
My naive solution was to gather everything at one place before sorting everything and backing it up on a NAS. It was a lot of work but I didn’t find anything that could’ve helped me to accelerate the process so I did it manually. After having everything at a single place it was pretty straight forward though. I’m using directories to sort my stuff because at the end it’s independent of software and tags that might deprecate at some point. I’ve backed everything up using rsync.
I select pictures from my albums periodically and get them printed. I found it simple and effective.