As the title says, I’m looking for something I can use to access a cloud image folder from many devices. Something lightweight without much bloat and good privacy features and no ads with a decent storage limit (and that doesn’t compress HD photos to hell)
Free is best but paid is okay too.
I feel like there’s an obvious answer here but I’ve yet to find one.
Is an FTP folder too low tech? You can run an FTP server on any potato of a computer and access it with… Well, basically anything.
You can run it on your own box and it’s yours. No ads, no snooping, no limits other than drive space.
Certainly not too low-tech! I feel like this was the “obvious answer” I was thinking of. I’ve wanted to set up a proper FTP folder for a while now. Do you have any beginner guides? As I said, I’m just looking for a way to losslessly share photos between my mobile devices and desktop on a static address/service.
On Linux I have always used vsftp. Under Windows you can just enable (s)FTP functionality through IIS, even on home versions of Windows. You will have to go to the “Turn Windows features on or off” applet in the oldskool Control Panel and check off “Internet Information Services (IIS)” -> “FTP Sever.”
If you’re hosting this through your home internet connection you will probably want some manner of dynamic DNS so you don’t annoy yourself if/when your ISP randomly changes your IP address. I use no-ip, but in true BBC tradition I must point out that other options are available. They have a little client applet you can run on your machine that regularly updates your IP address so your dinky fake domain name always points to the right place.
Note this is only for backup. If you want a gallery type view with thumbnails, you may be able to combine it with this but I don’t have a ready to go solution.
Rclone: https://rclone.org/
Android Rclone: https://github.com/newhinton/Round-Sync
Round sync isn’t in any app store so use https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium.
Use rclone on PC and round sync on android.
Round sync can do scheduled backups.
Will have to setup cron or w/e on PC.
You can pick most any storage provider with rclone and wrap in an encrypted vault which means it won’t get compressed, or it will be lossless compression.
Use copy instead of sync otherwise it will delete files.
