Pasting my own answer from [0]:<p>---<p>For myself and my family, I wrote my own tool [1] that runs everyday on an "input folder". A quick google on "github photo organizer" shows a lot of others having done the same :)<p>It organizes all traversed photos by date (extracted from exif or from filename), and puts them in a "failed" folder if it can't parse the date.<p>If any photos get the same name, they are either deduped because they are exact duplicates, or are marked as conflicts (e.g. A.jpg and A_conflict1.jpg) if they are different.<p>Last time I used it for a large input it took 3h for 200GB, though I suspect network latency was the main bottleneck.<p>It's around 300 lines of python - verify the code for yourself if you want to use it! You probably also need to fork it if you don't intend to run it on a Synology NAS.<p>However, as I mentioned last time I pitched this, elodie [2] might be more suitable for others than my little hack. Haven't used it though!<p>1: (<a href="https://github.com/johan-andersson01/photo_organizer" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/johan-andersson01/photo_organizer</a><p>2: <a href="https://github.com/jmathai/elodie" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jmathai/elodie</a><p>---<p>0: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24019612" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24019612</a>
They're for the most part on my PC inside lightroom.<p>Then all that gets backed up locally to a synology NAS.<p>Also backed up via Backblaze.<p>I feel comfortable with this system, but it certainly isn't ideal for sharing and etc.
For all the posters saying Google Photos: make sure you have a backup of your originals. Google strips most of the metadata from your images when you pull down a Takeout or use the photos API, including GPS.<p>You can copy your original images and videos directly to a home computer/server/desktop/raspberry pi via either SyncThing or Resilio Sync.<p>If you want to self-host your library, there are a bunch of options, but (being the author) I'm partial to PhotoStructure: <a href="https://photostructure.com/faq/why-photostructure/" rel="nofollow">https://photostructure.com/faq/why-photostructure/</a><p>(I've had several beta users tell me that they've "tried them all" and picked PhotoStructure, but there's some survivorship bias there!)
I would recommend backing up with Google Photos and Backblaze.<p>For a local storage, I would invest in a hard drive. This way, you have two cloud copies for every local copy.<p>Family pictures are really really important, you will look back on these 10 years later and smile when you come across these again.
i have a copy on dropbox, a backup of that folder on onedrive with arq backup. For easy viewing I also upload them to smugmug and make sure they are tagged correctly.
It works mostly in that we can find photo's most of the time and have not yet lost a single one.