Photo backup alternative to Nextcloud app

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Cross-posted here: Photo backup alternative to Nextcloud app - Setup - /e/OS community

Anyone know another app that can auto-upload photos & videos to Nextcloud besides the Nextcloud app?

I want to (continue to) automatically back up photos on my Fairphone 4 to my Nextcloud server. I’ve been using the Nextcloud app for years, but recently I noticed it is using a lot of battery. I’m worried about the many existing “battery drain” issues in their tracker like this one from 2020. The app also has other things I don’t like: I don’t get notifications because I use the F-Droid version and mobile editing is unpleasant. I’ve found workarounds for those, but I’m unable to workaround the battery draining (I tried restricting battery use, but that causes a persistent “Preparing auto upload” notification and the app still seems to drain battery). I uninstalled it for now.

The features I want are (a) auto-upload new photos and videos and (b) sorting into year/month folders. I only really need (a).

App battery usage seems like a tricky thing to diagnose and mitigate. I found Why is Android client using so much battery and Battery draining on android · Issue #7663 · nextcloud/android · GitHub and tried searching for advice and changing settings around quite a bit.

One user in the Matrix chat suggested using Round-Sync.

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You can try Les Pas

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I went back to using the Nextcloud app to auto-upload photos. It is no longer draining battery–it doesn’t even show up on the list of apps in Settings → Battery → Battery Usage. It also preserves EXIF data (e.g. geolocation) when uploading images & videos (this wasn’t happening when I manually uploaded photos to Nextcloud through a mobile web browser with the Files or Memories app).

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How is mobile editing different from the Play Store version? I could not find any difference…

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Agreed. Sorry, lazy writing on my part. I meant that to be a separate statement.

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Ah ok, no problem. I actually would have been genuinely interested to know what the differences were if you had found any, but I should have made that more clear, so I guess that was lazy writing on my part as well… :slight_smile:

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I’m researching Immich.
Just need a FOSS app with a solid community.
Unsure about having all eggs in one basket like NextCloud Files, Photos, Contacts etc.
Then working out backups and security.
Currently 1 NVMe storage, 1 local computer NVMe storage and 1 cloud storage with iDrive. iDrive is slow but affordable, so might move to NextCloud photos or Immich.
Possibly also blockchain like Storj.