I bought an old Mac Mini for very cheap and put a big disk in it. I let Photos sync everything there and I back up my Photos library (and the rest of my iCloud stuff, which is getting close to 2TB now) to Backblaze.
I also let Google Photos take copies from the phone and occasionally check in on it to see if it’s working okay.
Do you have to pay for an iCloud plan then? And if so, what happens when you run out of capacity in iCloud? Or is this syncing feature independent of the iCloud storage plans?
Yes I pay for iCloud, for a family pack that gives us 2TB. By far I’m the biggest user and the capacity is almost all photos and videos from my various cameras. I’m happy paying for this because it means I get to provide others with a copy of their photos that won’t easily get lost.
I’m not quite near the 2TB limit yet but eventually I’ll have to come up with a way to choose what I don’t want be in my primary Photos library and that I will just leave in one place to keep it backed up.
I probably have quite a lot of video I could move out of my primary Photos library and just keep around - but I like that I keep accidentally coming across old photos and videos, so I hope they make a bigger plan soon.
I used to use Dropbox Photos but they killed it. That was pretty good. Apple Photos is great for always having all my photos available on my phone, laptops, etc. - all indexed and catalogued automatically in some useful ways. Just like Google Photos. I don’t trust Apple or Google alone, but I like the iOS and MacOS Photos stuff enough to use it as my primary way to handle photos.
Syncing is because of iCloud. I don’t have a 2TB phone to keep all my photos on and sync to elsewhere! Maybe one day.
You can of course try the ways around using the system Apple provide but it’s always going to be clunky. The closest to the same experience is Google Photos, as far as I know. I think you can still sync Google Photos to Linux so that might be a way to do similar to iCloud + Apple Photos though not necessarily cheaper.
I bought an old Mac Mini for very cheap and put a big disk in it. I let Photos sync everything there and I back up my Photos library (and the rest of my iCloud stuff, which is getting close to 2TB now) to Backblaze.
I also let Google Photos take copies from the phone and occasionally check in on it to see if it’s working okay.
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via cable?
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No all of this is without physically connecting anything
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How can the photos app sync with the mac mini then?
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iCloud syncs it
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Do you have to pay for an iCloud plan then? And if so, what happens when you run out of capacity in iCloud? Or is this syncing feature independent of the iCloud storage plans?
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Yes I pay for iCloud, for a family pack that gives us 2TB. By far I’m the biggest user and the capacity is almost all photos and videos from my various cameras. I’m happy paying for this because it means I get to provide others with a copy of their photos that won’t easily get lost.
I’m not quite near the 2TB limit yet but eventually I’ll have to come up with a way to choose what I don’t want be in my primary Photos library and that I will just leave in one place to keep it backed up.
I probably have quite a lot of video I could move out of my primary Photos library and just keep around - but I like that I keep accidentally coming across old photos and videos, so I hope they make a bigger plan soon.
I used to use Dropbox Photos but they killed it. That was pretty good. Apple Photos is great for always having all my photos available on my phone, laptops, etc. - all indexed and catalogued automatically in some useful ways. Just like Google Photos. I don’t trust Apple or Google alone, but I like the iOS and MacOS Photos stuff enough to use it as my primary way to handle photos.
Syncing is because of iCloud. I don’t have a 2TB phone to keep all my photos on and sync to elsewhere! Maybe one day.
You can of course try the ways around using the system Apple provide but it’s always going to be clunky. The closest to the same experience is Google Photos, as far as I know. I think you can still sync Google Photos to Linux so that might be a way to do similar to iCloud + Apple Photos though not necessarily cheaper.
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