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Phone Photo Manager

Server-side management of photos. Intended to replace the core functionality of Google Photos:

Delete oldest files once phone Photos folder reaches a configurable size
Make sure photos are in server-side archive before removing from phone
Browse archived photos from any computer
Keep photo on phone explicitly (regardless of file age)

Network

I’m using Syncthing to get files to/from my phone’s Photo folder. The network looks like this:

Device	Folder	Purpose
Phone	Photos	New photos saved here by the camera. Sync both ways so that servers can remove photos easily
Amazon Server	Photos	Direct sync with Phone Photos. Pi Server controls which photos are on phone by changing this folder
	Archive	Photos folder is synced via `rsync` to the archive
Home Pi	Photos	Redundant Photos sync (all devices sync to each other)
	Archive	Redundant Archive. Phone can download from Pi or Amazon servers
	Cold Storage	Because Amazon is limited in space, only keep the full collection of photos on the Pi. Nothing is ever removed from Cold Storage

Setup

You will need to set up Syncthing (or some other file sync service) to suit your requirements.

I use rsync -a to sync Photos with Archive and Archive with Cold Storage. The former is on a cronjob every 30 minutes or so, and the latter is a job which should run every couple hours. Cleanup (reclaiming storage on phone and limited-space server) will happen every morning at 4 AM.

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