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gphotos-sync
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Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage
Sadly, it’s not configurable. It’s just an inherent limitation of the API (1). Takeout is the best alternative, but for something more realtime you can use tools (2) that wrap the browser UI which also exports full quality.
(1) https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync#warning-google-api...
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Immich - Self-hosted photos and videos backup solution from your mobile phone (AKA Google Photos replacement you have been waiting for!) - March late update - now with CLIP-enabled search mechanism.
I haven't tried immich yet, but I am using https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync with great success. I wonder how hard it would be to set up a workflow to get the synced photos into immich.
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Amazon Photos just ate 240,364 of my photos
I pull mine from Google Photos, with a docker image running a tool: https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync
Its not perfect, but as a backup, it works well.
- Google Takeout for Google photos limit
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My brother's iCloud account was stolen
Exactly this. I have Google photos and I use it all the time, for everyone. But I also back up everything I can using the [gphotos-sync](https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync) python script. As it says, it's not the 100% quality in either photo or video, but it's still the memories.
Please if you aren't backing up your cloud storage photos/important files, stop reading HN and go and set it up now.
I can recommend backblaze for cheap reliable storage and the restic backup client which is brilliant (a single, small binary). There's also rclone, or even the backblaze cli client. [Sorry I sound like a Backblaze shill!]
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Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored in Google Photos
I used this not too long ago: https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync
It works extremely well, and you can re-run it any time to sync new files locally too.
I used it like that for a few months before I finally installed syncthing on my phone and stopped using Google Photos altogether.
Now what I do is take photos on my phone, have them sync to a NAS. And on the NAS I used a modified version of this https://forum.syncthing.net/t/android-photo-sync-with-exifto... to build up a YYYY/MM folder organisation and move files older than 30 days from the syncthing folder into my archive. My archive is then in my Plex so it's still accessible to me.
In essence: 1) Take photo (implicit sync to NAS), 2) wait 30 days, 3) archive photo into long term directory naming convention, whilst making available to Plex and deleting the version from my phone (by deleting the syncthing version it will delete the one on the phone after 30 days too).
- Google bans man's account, will not reinstate even after being cleared by law enforcement
- The straw that broke the camel's back
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Move all iCloud photos to NAS
Ah. I suggest opening a separate thread for that if you need peeps to share their experience. I took a quick look at Github and this repository seems popular: https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync
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Ask HN: Google Photos Alternatives?
Technically there is no way for a lossless synchronization/export out of Google Photos apart from using Google Takeout to the best of my knowledge.
For reference check the best effort project https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync and the "Known Issues with Google API" section.
In short:
arq_restore
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ThinMachine – A $25 Thin Client macOS Time Machine Appliance
People who want something similar may want to look at Arq [1]. Similar to restic, it provides incremental encrypted backups to most cloud providers (or a machine with SSH). But it is a Mac app, making it easy to configure and maintain. I never had issues with data corruption so far.
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with them, just a happy user for 9 years.
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Guys I’m scared 😭 my life is on my computer and I don’t know how to fix it
For actual off-site backups, using something like https://www.backblaze.com or use https://www.arqbackup.com and your own choice cloud storage provider.
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Is VeraCrypt 1.25.9 compatible with macOS Ventura?
Take a look at Arq Backup - not identical, but it's E2EE.
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Could I backup to B2 Cloud with a similar experience as Backblaze Personal?
You could try this: https://www.arqbackup.com/ , it supports B2 I believe.
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Digital clutter: Learning to let go and stop hoarding terabytes
Regarding Arq backup: if you are worried about using a proprietary (enrypted) and closed-source backup format in case the company were to go under, they have an open source command-line restore tool:
https://github.com/arqbackup/arq_restore
I've been using Arq for years, but I need to look into the "Glacier Deep Archive" format which is about 1/20th the cost of the fastest storage class.
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I hvilken sky gemmer i jeres digitale billeder og videoer?
Bruger det ikke selv… men måske dette kan fra pc https://www.arqbackup.com
- Amazon Photos just ate 240,364 of my photos
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File corruption still an issue?
Those backups themselves are encrypted before being stored in the cloud. I personally use Arq, but any modern backup solution will probably work, like Borg, Restic, Duplicacy or even Kopia if you’re feeling brave :-)
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Another happy MBP owner, checking in to share that everything is great and I love the device.
Run your backups using Backblaze or set up your own AWS S3 buckets and use https://www.arqbackup.com/ (I use both, because I'm paranoid).
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Makers, what are the tools you can't live without?
https://www.arqbackup.com This tool saved my ass so many times. Backs up your data every hour or whatever schedule you set to several storages. Best ever.
What are some alternatives?
immich - High performance self-hosted photo and video management solution.
Piwigo - Manage your photos with Piwigo, a full featured open source photo gallery application for the web. Star us on Github! More than 200 plugins and themes available. Join us and contribute!
gphotos-cdp - This program uses the Chrome DevTools Protocol to drive a Chrome session that downloads your photos stored in Google Photos.
restic - Fast, secure, efficient backup program
icloud_photos_downloader - A command-line tool to download photos from iCloud
librephotos - A self-hosted open source photo management service. This is the repository of the backend.
kopia - Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included.
rclone - "rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Yandex Files
Cryptomator - Multi-platform transparent client-side encryption of your files in the cloud
vorta - Desktop Backup Client for Borg Backup
BorgBackup - Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.
Pixelify-Google-Photos - Pixelify GPhotos