Backup to your own storage

Opensolr Photos can copy your photos, videos and PDFs to a place you own: an S3 bucket or a WebDAV folder. The files go straight from the phone to your storage. Opensolr never holds a single one of them; it keeps only the sealed credentials, so a new phone finds the backup by itself.

• The index keeps what is known about each file: the words, the people, the place, the text. It never changes because of the backup.
• Your storage keeps the files themselves, plus a small copy of each and a short list of what was sent. See what is written into your storage.
• Your Opensolr account keeps the way into your storage, sealed, so that any phone signed in as you can reach it. See Test connection, Save.
• The phone does the work: it uploads, it downloads, it decides what is missing. Opensolr is never in the middle.

1. Prepare the place: an AWS S3 bucket, another S3 service or a WebDAV folder. Each page is a complete walk-through.
2. In the app: Me, Settings, Backup, Storage backend. Pick the kind and fill in the fields from the page you followed.
3. Tap Test connection. See what the test does.
4. Tap Save and start backup. The first backup starts and you can watch it on the Photo backup screen.

Before that, two choices on the same settings page: whether mobile data may be used, and whether originals or 1080p copies go up.

• After every sync, so a new photo is indexed first and backed up right after.
• Once a day on its own, in case nothing changed for a while.
• When you tap Back up now.
• Only on Wi-Fi unless you allow mobile data, and never below 10% battery; it picks up on its own when the battery is back. The phone does not need to be charging.

• Every photo in your index that is on this phone, as the original file or as a 1080p copy, as you choose.
• Every video in your index, always as the original clip.
• Every PDF in your index, once, however many pages it has.
• Next to each, a 720p copy. A new phone receives photos as these copies, and videos and PDFs as their files. See a new phone.
• An item you delete in the app leaves the backup too, at the next run. See deleting.

Several phones signed in to the same index share one backup: each sends what it has, and each brings back what the others sent. See one library on several phones.

The backup is optional. Without a backend the app works exactly as before: your files on the phone, your index in your account.