I would like to take this for a spin although I see two install methods, flatpak and appimage? Any recommendations here? Seems like both are on par as far as versions go

Makes much more sense now

What do you mean by micro?

Well that’s good news. For now, I’ve created a different path in my array. I’ve reconfigured photoprism to look at this new path for the originals and cleared out the database one more time. I’m in the process of fully reuploading/resyncing my devices (two phones). Once I have that then I will write up a script to see which objects are missing from the old path to the new and viceversa to figure out why Im short ~5,000 objects. Once I have that list then I can rehollad the missing objects and im back in business (hopefully)

That’s the thing, if I do a count of the objects in the actual storage I get 27k but based on the count of the two devices that I backup using PhotoPrism I should have at least 31k between the two phones. So somehow I’ve lost ~5k. It may have not been a big deal to just do a full sync with PhotoSync again to copy over whatever I was missing between the two phones and storage BUT given the fact that I had to rebuild Photoprism’s database I’m not confident that the new database will have the same unique Id for each picture as before so if I kick off another full sync with PhotoSync it may copy everything again because “the new database doesn’t have a record of that picture”.

I reinfected everything once the new database was built but again I’m not sure if the new unique ids or however Photoprism knows that it already has that object will match and skip the upload or if it will just accept as a new a object.

This right here

I don’t need the whole rclone.conf file right? Just the authentication stuff for the underlying remote, the password for crypt and the salt for crypt. If I have that shouldn’t I be able to recreate the access and subsequently the decryption key to be used on some other machine?

UPDATE: Decide to give rclone a try and try to automate it all through scripts. So far I the rclone script checking for errors, logging to a file and sending discord notifications.

The script I’m building is coming up nicely. I have it checking for error codes, logging to a file and sending discord notifications. Next step is to finish up all the rclone copy’s and syncs I want to do and then trying to encrypt the data client side before uploading to cloud. I’ve seen mention of crypt but can’t find it in the official rclone docs (yet).

Don’t shy away from it based on how difficult you THINK it is. It’s really not that complicated once the concept and the different parts of what makes that lock icon appear on your browser are explained in detail. I was in your exact position, paralyzed by the thought of tackling such a topic. If you have the time, have a look at the video I linked. Everything is explained really well (although it is a bit dry and long at the beginning but it’s worth it). After that, if you have questions, dm me (if that’s a thing in Lemmy).

I would say I would give you my templates/instructions if you’d like but that would do you more harm than good.

Actually, had no idea this existed. Good bot

This is what I do only because cryptography it’s a big weakness of mine so I wanted to work through it to understand it. I ended up setting up a raspberry pi with Debian and went at it with guidance from a YouTube video. Notice I said guidance, to get started. From there, I built my own CA server and issue certs to my services, upload the certs to NPM and apply them to the services I need.

Documented every step of the way and made templates out of config files.

It’s not the sexiest solution BUT I have a way better handle on cryptography than I did before.

I’ve mostly stayed away from duplicati because of the “horror stories” around restore operations. Quotes because sometimes people exaggerate but other times they are legitimate concerns/bad experiences.

My fault! This is exactly what I was going to do as I’m unfamiliar with rclone. My comment about the script was to see how to do checks to make sure the remote is actually available before trying, how to make sure the job ran successfully, how to send a notification upon success/failure, etc.

I’m pretty novice at bash but I know other languages very well. Concepts apply more or less the same across languages, the only thing that changes in most cases is syntax.

Anyways, good write up and I appreciate your feedback.

This is the way. PhotoPrism on my server and PhotoSync (Premium because I want to keep the original image quality and automated backups) on my Apple devices (iPhones, iPads, etc). Works like a charm. First backups took a while (30k pictures and videos between two phones), around 24 hours or so but after that any new pictures or videos are automatically backed up.

Mind sharing the script (without the sensitive data)?

I haven’t taken the plunge into rclone because of the scripting part of the equation. Just not great at bash.

Ah okay got ya

When you say “check everything works” what do you mean?

I’m gonna be real with you. I have never heard of half the things you mentioned (bedrock Linux, strata, compositor, etc) hahahahahahaha

Ah okay fair enough! Thanks for sticking to the conversation. I will rebase everything to stable and goes that a try for awhile!