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>I was evaluating Syncthing for 1-way, append-only phone photo backup, and my Google searches warned me away from this, talking about "unsupported" and "database corruption."

Same here. What do you use instead? I haven't been able to find a good open-source multiplatform project for backups/1-way sync.

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It's not open-source, but I ended up using PhotoSync for myself and my wife to a locked-down samba share on my LAN .

They had a pretty reasonable (~$6) in-app purchase to unlock samba access, and the fact that it's a German GmbH means I'm slightly more confident they're not trying to copy all our photos to a dark data-vault.

Happy user so far, though it took some cross-checking against the samba share feel confident it was backing up reliably (I'm just particular about trust-but-verify :)

https://www.photosync-app.com/home.html

I have several folders in SyncThing set for one-way only sync (from one device or machine to another only, never syncing back). It's easy to set various nifty folder options in the SyncThing web UI and on the Android app. (Dunno about Apple devices, because I own none.)

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