I’ve tried Immich, but found my plain SMB shares already did 80% of what immich could do. The remaining 20% I could do easily with my favorite photo/video viewers (looping, filtering, tagging, location data).

I also hate how it’s only a web portal for desktop. There’s no native desktop app, and no seamless integration with file browsers, video players, etc.

Maybe I look at it again in a few years

I found that rclone is enough for me. One backup to locally attached external drive with rclone sync. I add --backup-dir to keep older file versions separate, which I clean up with rclone delete based on their age. I also setup remote backup to OneDrive. rclone also takes care of the encryption for this one to protect from any snooping.