This is what I like about Ente. I can pay them to give me an e2e encrypted cloud service, and then the desktop app has a continuous export feature that will dump everything into a plain folder structure on my home NAS automatically.
Ente could go out of business tomorrow and I’d still have all my photos, neatly organized into folders.
And I don’t have to bother with self-hosting overhead. Or I could self host, too, if I wanted. But I still need an off-site backup so I might as well pay for the cloud service.
Have you had any issues with the continuous export writing to a network volume? And does it work for all users in a family plan? That was my plan as well, but I’d like to only have to run one export job
I can’t tell you about family plan since I don’t have one. I assume you’d have to set this up on a per-user basis.
I haven’t had any network volume issues. It’s an SMB volume provided by trueNAS mounted on a Windows machine.
I will say, if you mess up your volume like the time I took my NAS down for maintenance for a few days, the export failure wasn’t incredibly loud. I don’t think it notified and screamed at me that it wasn’t working. So I guess that is a significant risk.
Ente could go out of business tomorrow and I’d still have all my photos, neatly organized into folders.
And I don’t have to bother with self-hosting overhead. Or I could self host, too, if I wanted. But I still need an off-site backup so I might as well pay for the cloud service.