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Finally I came up with the definitive solution, the one that gives me everything I want in an easy (once set up is done), cheap, secure and lightweight way.\n\nAt the end of this tutorial we will have a Photo Storage solution that will allow us to:\n\n- [x] Sync our photos from any device.  \n- [x] Remove exact-photo duplicates efficiently.  \n- [x] Automatically organize our Gallery by Year and Month.  \n- [x] Manually run Face Recognition and Face Scanning.  \n- [x] Manage our gallery from DigiKam.  \n- [x] Have an online gallery with a map, faces, tags, ratings and other filters.  \n- [x] Upload an encrypted backup of our gallery to any cloud service.  \n- [x] Locally generate a backup on a separated drive.  \n- [x] Securelly access our Gallery from anywhere outside our network.  \n\nThis can be achieved using a Raspberry Pi 4 and a HDD Storage drive. Pretty cheap!\n\nThe stack we will be using is the following:\n\n- [PiGallery2](https://github.com/bpatrik/pigallery2) - A simple and lightweight gallery with all that you expect. Read only.  \n  - You can also use [PhotoView](https://github.com/photoview/photoview) instead if you want to be able to do the Face Recognition on the Raspberry itself. I personally prefer not to carry this workload on the RPI.\n- [Syncthing](https://syncthing.net/) - A simple, fast, peer-to-peer syncing tool.  \n- [Phockup](https://github.com/ivandokov/phockup) - Script to organize your Photos.  \n- [Czkawka](https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka) - Find duplicates for your photos really fast.\n- [SSHFS](https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs) - Manage remote Gallery folder locally.  \n- [DigiKam](https://www.digikam.org/) - Face Recognition and Metadata management.  \n- rsync - Efficient backup tool.\n- rclone - Rsync for cloud services.\n\n## The Guide\n\n1. 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