Apologies, my previous reply doesn't make a lot of sense (I was typing it on a tiny Android keyboard with word prediction/mangle). Bitorrent Sync will do exactly what you want. We have Resilio Sync (as it is now known) on our FreeNAS home server with Sync clients on Android and iOS devices. The server is available for Windows, Mac, Linux and a FreeNAS plugin and clients for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android. I've set the system up to do a one-way sync (backup) from the client to the server of photos and videos (you can select other folders). You can choose if you want the backup to happen when connected to wifi & 3G/4G or wifi only. The backup process is completely transparent to the end user and 'just happens'. We are also using Resilio Sync to share photos with family instead of Dropbox. The files we choose to share only reside on our home server and the family members device and are transfered (so Resilio tell us) with end to end encryption. Resilio Sync is closed source so there is no way for someone (way more qualified than myself) of confirming this claim.
Another option is syncthing which looks to do same thing and is open source. I will be looking at this to see if it can replace Resilio Sync for us. Regards (again) Russell >This is something I recently setup on my home NAS server and using the Bittorrent sync server on the NAS and the Bittorrent sync client on a mix of Android and iOS devices to transparently backup photos and videos. We are also judging it to share photos with family instead of Dropbox. Btsync is closed source software which maybe an issue for you. I have just become aware of syncthing, which is open source, and I shall be looking into using it in the future. Regards Russell On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 at 18:58 Russell Armstong <russ.ar...@googlemail.com> wrote: Hi all, This is something I recently setup on my home NAS server and using the Bittorrent sync server on the NAS and the Bittorrent sync client on a mix of Android and iOS devices to transparently backup photos and videos. We are also judging it to share photos with family instead of Dropbox. Btsync is closed source software which maybe an issue for you. I have just become aware of syncthing, which is open source, and I shall be looking into using it in the future. Regards Russell On Mon, 17 Oct 2016, 17:28 Michele Mor via Peterboro, < peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote: Hi. I would try to setup a raspberry pi as a server, the pi is cheap and memory card are not that expensive, obviously it all depends on how much data you need to keep. Michele On Monday, October 17, 2016, Phil Thompson via Peterboro < peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote: > Anyone have any good experiences or thoughts to share on a "local cloud" device to allow the increasingly unwired user to backup their stuff. > > Obviously there are genuine cloud based services, but some are very limited or expensive and there's always the upload speed issue (not to mention privacy etc). A couple of people have asked me about "something to back up my photos" but iThings don't provide a way to save to a local external HDD without the intervention of a computer. > > Is there a solution with a networked hard disk, probably connected via wireless for convenience, with an app or similar interface to allow straightforward backup ? 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