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Synology 2021 and Beyond

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Synology Photos looks really great and a possible alternative to Google Photos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_p5rDMDV2w

I've been using Synology for about 5 years and highly recommend it. I've been documenting 'A Pragmattic Photo Archiving Solution' for a while that outlines how I've automated a system which uses Dropbox, Synology and Google Photos [1] as well as a series of how I ended up with my current setup [2]. Worth a read if you're using Synology to manage your photos.

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JzqT-DJFlS2e8ZC00HrsQITq...

[2] https://medium.com/vantage/understanding-my-need-for-an-auto...

Is there a way to have Synology as a backup for my Photos on iPhone? i.e A replacement to iCloud Photo?

Not that I'm aware of. I tried really hard to get iCloud Photo + iCloud Drive to work for my needs. I was not able to figure this out.

1) iCloud Photos and iCloud Drive do not work together - this was really surprising to me as I need a file-system based option to be exposed.

2) iCloud Photos requires (or did so 2 years ago) that you enable backing up of all photos. I prefer to choose the photos I want to add to my archive and there was no way to do this and use iCloud Photos.

Individually the two products showed promise but they are siloed. I did not make it this far but due to the lack of APIs I would not have been able to use Synology's Cloud Station to pull down a copy of my library for a secondary backup.

In the end, it suited me well to invest a little more time in my solution to further decouple the services that I use. I was using Google Drive, for example, and started having a lot of sync conflicts so I switched to Dropbox with little hassle while still using Google Photos as my viewing application.

Really hoping Synology Photos can fill this gap and I can move off Google Photos.

I always want the QNAP hardware with Synology software. Synology hardware is really anaemic.

I really want to use Qnap, They have better hardware with 2.5Gbps Ethernet. But their ZFS is not available in any of the consumer hardware. So if anyone cares about Checksum, BitRot, Synology is the only way to go.

I hope there will be a DS221 this year.

> So if anyone cares about Checksum, BitRot, Synology is the only way to go.

Or FreeNAS/TrueNAS, which is also built on ZFS: https://www.freenas.org

I should have mentioned Consumer Hardware. More of a buy and ready to go approach.

For Consumer Hardware, there's the 4 bay TrueNAS Mini E: :)

https://www.truenas.com/truenas-mini/

By the time DSM 7.0 is released it will be Synology 2022

Wanted to read. Only videos available. When did this become acceptable? Where is the text?

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