@thomschm @Boerps ich habe es jetzt auf #kDrive von #infomaniak aus der Schweiz gezogen. Sie bieten sogar einen Dropbox Import an.
Mich hat überzeugt, dass sie Clients für alle Plattformen haben.

https://www.infomaniak.com/de/ksuite/kdrive

How I Switched from iCloud Photos to Ksuite+ and Immich

Yesterday I turned off iCloud Photo synching, and then I wiped my photos from iCloud Photos but before that I took several precautions.

Triple Backup to Apple Devices with Enough Storage

The first precaution I took was to ensure that the Photos app on a mac was downloading all the original photos locally. While this task was taking place I also got an iPhone 8+ and an older iPad to backup my photos locally to their hard drives.

Backup to Immich and Kdrive

Months ago I synced all of the photos on my phone to Immich. I also got Kdrive to sync my library. In both of these cases I had to keep the apps on a special screen that ensures that backup is not interrupted. After doing this overnight, one app at a time, I had another backup.

Backup from Kdrive to a Local Hard Drive

I setup Kdrive to backup my files from the cloud to a local hard drive. There are two reasons for this.

The first reason is that for me, a cloud solution must make it as easy to get data out of the cloud, as in to it. iCloud and Google Photos do not. I will elaborate on this soon.

The second reason is that with kDrive photos are backed up with their exif data and filenames intact. This means that you're transferring the files as is, rather than digested like both iCloud Photos and Google Photos do.

Photoprism, iCloud Photos, Google Photos and Flickr

Both iCloud Photos and Google Photos strip data from the photos and create a chaotic system of files that you need specialist tools to repair. Photoprism has a tool for Google Photos to resolve the issue created by Google Photos. It has another for Apple Photos and Flickr.

KDrive and Immich

In an ideal world you take photos, and they sync to Immich without issues, via the iPhone or Android app. One day you upgrade the docker container and the app breaks, and you need to reimport thousands of photos once again. That's where the local Kdrive photo backup comes in.

Kdrive Phone Photo Backups

When you backup your photos with the Kdrive app you backup to a folder, and this folder has your photos organised by day or month, depending on how granular you choose for the folder struture to be. You can then import your photos from your local machine to your immich instance with all of the exif info intact. This includes, date, time, location and much more.

And Finally

For 67 CHF per year I have access to Ksuite+ and 6TB of storage. With iCloud it would cost 30 CHF per month or 360 CHF per year. Kdrive meets requirements that iCloud photos does not. It allows me to backup photos to my computer with ease, and it offers me plenty of headroom.

I never had a desire to spend 10 CHF per year. I was happy with Google One and their 2TB plan until I found Infomaniak and their 6TB plan for 67 CHF or so.

And Finally, I regularly see ads encouraging people to just delete their photos, and only keep a few. As a media asset manager/archivist I believe that people should keep and cherish their photos. iCloud Photos doesn't meet my requirements, which is why I slid to open source solutions.

The Mature Phone Photo Backup Landscape

Many years ago, if I took photos with a nokia phone I had to sync them via a memory card. With the arrival of the Android Nexus on and the Apple iPhone our digital photography habits changed. With time we would leave our cameras at home, and carry our mobile phones, and photograph paries and hikes with these.

In the process we had two apps to backup. Google Photos and iPhoto. Both of these were optimal for whether we were on iOS or Android. For a while this was fine because they automatically backed up to our computers. With time though, the backup was more and more cloud centric, to the point where our photos were now either on iCloud or Google Photos.

iCloud and Google One

People like me, of course, had a backup in iCloud and Google Photos. For a considerable amount of time Google Photos had a counter that increased every day so storage felt unlimited, until they decided to charge for storage. By then emmigrating from their cloud solutions was complicated by the time it would take to download the data, but also because with Google Takeout the photo data was separated from the photo files. Migrating would now be a hassle but that is a topic for another post.

Telecom Operators

Today we have a multitude of photo backup solutions. Some are provided by our telecom operator. MyCloud is provided by Swisscom for example. Infomaniak has both the kDrive app, if you want to backup with their own tool, or you can setup a Nextcloud instance that you host via their 'self-hosting' offerings.

Self-Hosting

NextCloud can also be self-hosted on a Pi, personal laptop or other but in my experience it can be fragile.

Immich and Photoprism are two interesting alternatives. Immich feels a lot like Google Photos and Photoprism is similar. Photoprism is developed in the EU.

There are other options but I mention two of the key players.

Flickr

If we think laterally then Flickr is another option. For around 8 CHF per month you can backup an unlimited amount of photos, and you can then choose to make some of them public and share them to groups.

Since this is a community of photographers, rather than influencers quality is higher, and the focus is on landscapes, urban views, people and more. This is an expensive option that fills a niche that other apps do not fill.

Google Photos and Photos

The key difference between Google Photos, Photos, on MacOS and iOS and third party options such as Kdrive, immich and others is that they usually do not run in the background automatically. with Google Photos and Photos as soon as you take a photo it is backed up. With almost every other app you need to open the app, and keep it open until uploading ends.

With Immich and Photoprism I kept the apps open, on a specific screen to backup years of photos. This could take the entire night. That's why iCloud is a good parachute, until you've backed up to third party solutions.

The Temporarily Free Trap

iCloud, Google Photos and MyCloud were all free for long enough for us to store photos with them, and when they became paying we had to choose between abandoning photos or paying for their service. That's why Immich and Kdrive are interesting options. Immich is local, and kDrive can be backed up locally with ease.

And Finally

For me the ideal setup includes Immich, Kdrive and iCloud if you're on iOS. Immich is the primary photo app, used to backup and catalogue photos. Kdrive is excellent as an offsite backup, but it also has the advantage of automatically backing up to a hard drive in my home. If I see a cheaper contract I can easily slide to that one within minutes, in theory.

Finally icloud is the parachute. As soon as photos are backed up to Immich and Kdrive they can be deleted from the phone, saving space.

Mein persönlicher #DID ist heute. Ich habe einen guten Hinweis auf kDrive von infomaniak aus der Schweiz erhalten, einen Account angelegt und gleich mein #Dropbox Konto übertragen und gelöscht.
Jetzt läuft noch der Import von meinem #OneDrive Konto, über das ich gerne Fotos von Veranstaltungen geteilt hatte.
Das wird dann wohl morgen gelöscht!

Wer sich für #kDrive von infomaniak interessiert: https://www.infomaniak.com/de/ksuite/kdrive

#unplugtrump

On Self Hosting and Having Multiple Devices

I grew up in the eighties, and 90s, and so computing, open source software and the world wide web grew up with me. In that time we went from going to magazine shops to buy mags, and cd shops to buy CDs, and book shops to buy books. We also took photos on rolls of films and then took those rolls to La Combe or the Garden Centre to have the films processed, and then we put them in albums.

When we had VCRs and VHS tapes we would either record things from terrestrial TV or satellite TV to VHS. We would have shelves, and furniture to store all of this physical media.

Shifting to Digital from Physical

With time we began to have feature phones with cameras, and then digital photo cameras. We went from using VHS tapes to having digital satellite receivers paired with PVRs. We went from using physical mediums to digital mediums and with time our habits changed.

For a long time we took photos, and if we scanned them, or if we digitised video tapes, then we would have electronic versions, stored on hard drives in our homes. For years we went for walks and took pictures with digital photo cameras, and eventually mobile phones, and then we would transfer them to our computer's hard drive, before uploading them via Picasa and other sites to share on the web via Flickr and other sites.

Wired Synchronisation

When I went for scuba dives and hikes my Suunto Dive computer or Suunto GPS watch would track my activity. When I got home I would remove the watch from my wrist and I would sync that data to Sports Tracker, and eventually MovesCount, and then back to Sports Tracker, Strava, Komoot and a multitude of services.

With the Ambit 2 and the Ambit 3 we would go for a hike, and then sync the data by connecting the watch to the computer. With the Suunto Spartan Wrist HR Baro watch, and other watches our data was synced automatically from our watch to the app, and then to cloud services. We no longer charged our device after every outing.

Seamless Syncing to Cloud Services

Over the years, as mobile phones improved, and as projects like Picasa and iPhoto gained maturity so culture shifted. We shifted away from desktops with easily upgradeable storage to laptops with half a terabyte of storage. As all of our devices synched either to Google Photos, and Google Drive, or with iPhotos and iCloud, so we dropped the habit of storing things locally.

This was for two reasons. The first is that we had terabytes of data now and only half a terabyte on our laptops, and 128gb on our mobile phones. We can get iPhones with more storage but that takes you from 3 CHF per month to 10 CHF per month with iCloud for two Terabytes. With Google One it costs 100 CHF per year for the same amount of storage. With Kdrive it costs 67 CHF per year for six terabytes. With kDrive you can easily back up to the cloud, and seamlessly back up at home.

Backing up to the cloud became so simple and intuitive that a generation grew up, never thinking of hard drives and local storage, because they're cloud native.

I saw an article "I finally understand why people self-host their media" and it illustrates the paradigm shift from my childhood to today.

When I was playing with self-hosting, and learning about Photoprism, Immich and other self-hosting solutions I thought about the shift from computer applications that ran on our desktops, stored on our personal computers, towards the age of the laptop and cloud based apps.

In essence, as we moved from using our desktop when we were home, to laptops at university, and then all the time, so we dropped the desktop, and local applications.

A Multi Device Life

In this day and age we might have an Apple laptop, a linux laptop and two or three phones that we have, from years of using phones until the battery begins to fail and then replacing them. This means that our decentralised media consumption habits, via phone, laptop, fitness watch and more, encourages us to shift from desktop apps to self-hosted apps on servers. Instead of having a single computer with 'huge' amounts of storage we're using phones with 128gb of storage and laptops with half a terabyte.

If you're curious about why I keep bringing up 128gb of storage, it's because this is the most affordable option for iPhones, and it can still be backed up to iCloud without investing in the 10 CHF per month plan. With a 200 or 500gb phone you would need to upgrade to a more expensive cloud solution if you don't self-host.

On Streaming Films, TV, but Not Music

Years ago I streamed music, until I realised that whereas I would spend 30-90 CHF in a year on music, at most, I spent much more on streaming services. That's why I dumped streaming services. It's cheaper to buy an "album". You also listen to the same songs, over and over again, so it makes sense to own them rather than stream them.

With film and television it is different. For 40 CHF or more you buy a film or TV series, watch it once, and then it's gathering dust, and degrading gradually over time.

I was going to expand on this topic but it's simple. Self-hosting TV series and films costs more money than it saves.

And Finally

When I was learning about Linux and self-hosting I eventually thought, "but self hosting is just running an app locally, like we used to do before. The only difference is that the app is on a server, rather than our main computer."

I believe that the shift from iPhoto and Picasa to cloud based solutions and self-hosting reflects a shift from a desktop and laptop centric use case to a more diverse one, where cloud based apps simplify our technological flow throughout the day.

Now that I use a Mac Mini certain habits might change. It's easier to keep an HD plugged permanently.

@infomaniak_network

Coucou Tu es hébergeur avec une bonne note et une bonne réputation. Une alternative #Suisse aux #gafam et travaillant pour la souverainté numérique. Et pour aller dans ce sens ce serait cool que tu utilises ce compte avec des infos utiles.
J'ai moi-même un compte chez toi avec mail et #kdrive etc... Je suis plus souvent sur le #fédiverse que ailleur et je ne suis pas le seul.

Satisfaction du soir : créer un montage WebDAV accessible par #Nginx, comme sous-domaine (avec prévision de sous-folders par utilisateur 🙂), pour pouvoir connecter #Joplin.

Et ça fonctionne sur iOS (nativement !), macOS, Linux, ...
Je vais pouvoir dégager Apple Notes 👍 La meilleure solution de prises de notes que j'aie pu trouver.

Long story short : j'aurais adoré utiliser #kDrive en #WebDAV, mais il faut un autre type d'abonnement que celui que j'ai.

Sincronitzant el #kdrive al disc extern per a fer una còpia de seguretat amb calma i que no es pergue res pel camí (perquè és lo núvol familiar), per algun motiu que desconec, ha enviat a la paperera la meitat de lo exportat, consumint els 3tb com si res. (Conste que no he descarregat, que també desconec perquè no deixa fer una còpia local si em dona la gana).

Són una merda, sí, pero en els anys que porto usant núvols, OneDrive i GoogleDrive no m'han fet això. Lo seu interés tindran.

@sonjdol @Larymir Habe seit ein paar Tagen kostenpflichtiges #Infomaniak #kDrive, das meinen OpenCamera-Ordner und Screenshots synct. Scheint bis jetzt gut zu klappen.

#Infomaniak nous explique comment installer leur client #kDrive, sans installer quoi que ce soit…

On n’est pas sorti des ronces…

https://www.infomaniak.com/fr/support/faq/617/installer-kdrive-sur-linux

#informatique #cloud #kSuite

@cryptomator Can Cryptomator be used with #Infomaniak #kDrive and #OpenXchange #OXDrive ?

#mastohelp #infomaniak #kdrive #bug_win11
Bonjour
Pour ma boîte, nous avons pris Infomaniak Kdrive en remplacement d'une solution US.
Depuis le passage à Win11, nous ne parvenons plus à utiliser le "Lite Sync" (choisir ce qu'on garde en local ou dans le cloud pour ménager le disque dur local).
Infomaniak nous ballade depuis qq 10 jours et manifestement n'a pas de solution.
Certains parmi vous aurait-il solutionné le problème ? C'est sérieusement pénalisant au quotidien...
Bonne journée

Cerchi un cloud sicuro e compatibile con Linux, Windows e macOS? kDrive di Infomaniak è la risposta. Scopri i trucchi per l’installazione Linux e come funziona su tutti i principali sistemi. Leggi la guida completa! #linux #kdrive #infomaniak #privacy #cloud #windows #macos #opensource
https://incastro.altervista.org/kdrive-infomaniak-come-funziona-installazione-linux-compatibilita-e-altro/

Hello les mastonautes de la tech, pour degafamiser notre bureau d'études, on a souscrit à une offre #infomaniak de kdrive avec synchronisation automatique. On a 5 ordinateurs sous linux mint et la synchronisation plante régulièrement surtout sur les projets de code R. Actuellement tout est planté sur les 5 ordis. Est-ce que vous avez des retours sur l'utilisation de #kdrive avec #linuxmint ? Quelles exclusions de fichiers faut-il faire pour que ça fonctionne ?

Ou autrement connaissez-vous des services équivalents sur étagère compatibles avec linux ?
Repouet apprécié !

Bientôt, #plasma #bigscreen

C'est #linux sur TV. #LinuxTv

On continue le #boycottUSA.

Surtout sur le numérique.

Exemples:

#Windows => #LinuxMint
#Android ou #iOS => #grapheneos ou #ubuntutouch
#Gmail => #kmail
#googledrive => #kDrive
#Plex, #netflix, #prime, #disneyplus => #jellyfin
#amazon => #cdiscount
...

Et bientôt

#googletv => #bigscreen

https://plasma-bigscreen.org/fr/

Migrer vers #kDrive d'#Infomaniak ? Pas encore pour moi
https://keldan.net/blog/index.php?article5/migrer-vers-kdrive-dinfomaniak-pas-encore-pour-moi

Migrer vers #kDrive d'#Infomaniak ? Pas encore pour moi
https://keldan.net/blog/index.php?article5/migrer-vers-kdrive-dinfomaniak-pas-encore-pour-moi

@lou_de_sel @mr_jack @machine_chouette pour un changement de cloud je conseille #kDrive d' #infomaniak : il peut se connecter à onedrive afin de copier le contenu sur kdrive. Cela marche très bien. #OnlyOffice et kdrive sont intégrés en version en ligne et en local.

Da ich an dieser Stelle mal #kdrive empfohlen hatte, hier die Korrektur:

Momentan setze ich auf #filen #filen_io und habe zweimal lifetime 100GB besorgt.

kdrive bietet nur eine AppImage Datei für Linux an, die unter Wayland Probleme macht. Jedenfalls arbeitet das System nicht. Der Support meinte nur "müsste gehen". Tja, sehr hilfreich.

Wichtigste Daten gehen gleichzeitig auch auf private Nextcloud.

kdrive habe ich Daten belassen, weil die mir mehrere TB zur Verfügung stellten ohne Abo. Werde es also als eine Art Archiv oder Lager weiterverwenden. Zum Synchronisieren taugt es aber gerade gar nichts.

#backup #nextcloud #filen #filen_io

@north4534 L'aide concerne aussi le depannage sous Linux a des tarifs de 50 € le ticket client il suffit de me mp ou de mp le compte de North ou de me mentionner pour faire une demande de support #depannagelinux #support #linux
J'aide aussi a migrer les serveurs sur le cloud et à la gestion de serveurs aux quotidiens. Je fais aussi la migration de serveurs de fichiers locales vers serveurs Nas dans le cloud. Avec la migration possible de google Drive, One drive vers une solutions européenne souveraine Kdrive! #Kdrive #googledrive #onedrive #Microsoft #souverainete_numerique