Can I treat Photonix as my backup solution?

5 May 2021, 11:23 p.m.

Best practices often suggest you should have 3 different copies of your files on 2 different types of media. Photonix software can be used in a few different ways.

If you are only going to run it so that it’s image files are stored on the same hard drive as you usually use, then it can’t offer any kind of backup.

If you are going to setup a home server and install Photonix on it in a way that copies files onto it’s hard drive whilst leaving the original versions on the original computer, then that will give you one backup. This will save you when one of the hard drives fail but if they’re both in the same location then it doesn’t offer anything in cases like flooding, fire and theft.

An upcoming feature will allow you to use cloud storage to store your pictures. This will provide you with safe storage in an off-site location and you you’ll be able to grow the size of your library without purchasing hard drives upfront.

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Thors_Son

Thors_Son

Jun 2021

Been following you guys from the beginning! Very excited for a release....gonna slap it on my odroid and wave google photos goodbye!

MarvelingEastward

MarvelingEastward

Feb 2021

Great to see object detection in free software!

Face recognition is another thing I'd very much miss away from Google Photos, but harder to get right as well?

DigitalBreathmint

DigitalBreathmint

Feb 2021

This looks really great! Are there ever any plans to add some kind of automatic sync from mobile? I'm sooo ready to switch off of Amazon Photos but I need that auto-sync action! :)