[yasuocidal]

I have a server, a small project of mine, and i installed nextcloud. Now my whole family and close friends use it to backup our photos. The official app for it is exceptional for syncing (you can set it to ONLY do the sync when charging or other parameters). There are other benefits of nextcloud (contact backup/Calendar/Messaging etc) and you can set it up on a raspberrypi with an external hard drive, throw it near your router (preferably both on a UPS for an "always on" solution) and forget about it. All the management can be done though the web interface (updates, new apps which you could find something helpful to you, etc ) and the installation is pretty easy.

If you decide to go with it, i recommend that you get a domain and set it up as a DDNS through cloudflare.

[theshrike79]

I could never bear the stress of being in charge of someone else's photo backups.

Especially when the option is just for them to pay $10 or something to a huge company that'll have pretty much 100% uptime and zero chance of lost files.

[LilBytes]

Its really not that hard. Just don't fuck around with backups, throw them all into Backblaze B2, S3 or what ever else.

I have the same setup as the person you're commenting to, initial setup was easy. Just test out your backup strategy thoroughly.

[SlightlyLeftPad]

My preferred solution would be phone -> local backup (for safety) -> Google Photos (for convenience). If the sync to local is about as good as google this would be the best for me.

Distant Plan b: phone -> google photos -> local backup. The problem here is that the only way to get your originals out of google photos is to use google takeout which is basically a dealbreaker here.

[spikej]

My solution is same as your plan A. Except that local backup is a NAS that also stores all backups from computers as well as photos from phones. Then everything goes to back blaze and photos go to Google photos for convenience of sharing.