I might have a misconception of what back up is.
Right before writing this, I used an ipad to take a picture of one of my cats. That ipad has the filen, nextcloud, and sync apps. I added the same photo to a test folder on each of the services I just mentioned. I can see the picture in the test folder of each service on my desktop.
Those are all free accounts, yes. I am not a paying customer yet. If that is not a backup, I don’t know what to call it.
Do you need nextcloud?
I am looking for an alternative to proton drive. It does not seem like the Linux app is happening anytime soon, and I want to be able to have a backup of the pictures I duplicate and edit without having to download the file and upload it after the changes I make.
https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/3.5inch_HDMI_LCD
I found it on buyapi.ca but they no longer sell it. The site shows:
3.5inch HDMI LCD, 480x320, IPS Unfortunately this product is no longer for sale so it cannot be reordered.
If you search for “HDMI LCD” you’ll find some similar displays. buyapi.ca
Thank you for your reply.
Which Model exactly? 3B+? 4?
The one I have is an RPi4
How much RAM?
It is the 1Gb model. It was purchased at the beginning of the pandemic (April 2020) and all I needed from the RPi4 was to be able to run gphoto2.
a small number of users (1-3) works for most applications.
I would be the only user, on a desktop, a laptop and an iphone.
You might need to use a USB Hub with external Power supply if the HDD uses to much power for the pi USB ports.
This might be the downside of the project. An array of cables connecting the RPi to the external drive, the powerbank and the display plus the USB dongle for the mouse/keyboard seem too much. The intervalometer had that same problem.
I would recommend to take a look at Immich
The Requirements page asks for a minimum of 4GB, while recommending 6GB. There might be a problem there :(
It looks like the alternative is a Canadian storage provider, using NextCloud on the desktop under Fedora. All this because Proton does not have a Linux app.
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I would rather have all synchronized data on external drives. Would syncthing allow me to work on USB hard drives?
Thanks for your reply. I do have the eventual video taken in between pictures. The way this is going, I might back up 1 or 2 Gb at first, to see how it all works out.
I will be using an external hard drive for the backup.
The backup is on an external hard drive. I wouldn’t trust an SD card for this. Thanks.
Thanks. You are correct, they are the same thing. What I meant was the OS needs an upgrade.
Thank you. I am reading their Q&A forum, realizing that the price of what I intend to do will be blood and tears. That’s fine. We like it that way.
How do I do this? Is it explained in the user’s manual?
Thank you. The tank you are recommending seems to be of a better quality than the one lomography sells.
Thank you for your reply and the link. Finding developing equipment definitively seems like following a rabbit hole; the caffenol process looks pretty interesting.
What do you do with the time you save by typing “cuz” instead of “because”?
Hopefully gphoto2 will run in this. It would make a less bulky intervalometer than the one I built with a raspberry pi and an attachable display.
The pictures I currently have and want to save are on an external hard drive and on proton drive. Any (future) pictures I take are:
Because proton does not have a Linux app, the problem with this workflow is that I need to download every picture I want to edit, and then upload it back to proton.
The options I have are:
switch to windows (that is never going to happen).
switch to mac (I am temped, but the idea of having to buy a new computer every two years because they become obsolete bothers me a little).
stay on Linux and use nextcloud on an iphone, an ipad, a dell optiplex 7010 and a toshoba satellite (both with 4Gb RAM).
That was just a picture of the RPi4 I want to use for this project. Back in 2020 I ran gphoto2 on it and used it as an intervalometer.
Your suggested setup would allow two hard drives to be synchronized, but the web archive (proton) would still need constant downloads and uploads.
Free filen and nextcloud accounts have allowed me to do what I want… take a picture with the phone, upload it, edit it on that service’s folder, see the changes on every other device.