Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos

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Take a look at the rclone targets list:

https://rclone.org/

In fact, most of them are not files in a directory - that's what makes most of the rclone use-cases so impressive. If they can interact with gdrive/photos/S3/etc. they should be able to interact with iCloud Photos ...

• data-transfer-project

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  The Data Transfer Project makes it easy for people to transfer their data between online service providers. We are establishing a common framework, including data models and protocols, to enable direct transfer of data both into and out of participating online service providers.

  

That's interesting, and it's the first I've heard of the project. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Apple has yet released the adaptors to the open source project [1]. As much as I'm not interested in having Apple copy my photos to Google, I am very interested in scripting my own offline backups without having to make space for Photos.app to store all my photos on my laptop's SSD. Hopefully the adaptors are added to the project soon.

[1] https://github.com/google/data-transfer-project/tree/master/...

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If the other machines on your LAN include Windows or Linux boxes, you could use Photos.app in a macOS VM to bulk download the files; here are some projects that make it easy:

macos-virtualbox: "Push-button installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra guests in Virtualbox for Windows, Linux, and macOS" https://github.com/myspaghetti/macos-virtualbox

macOS-Simple-KVM: "Tools to set up a quick macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM." https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM

• icloud_photos_downloader

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  A command-line tool to download photos from iCloud

  

https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...

• arq_restore

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  command-line utility for restoring from Arq backups

> Actually, I don't sync my photos to iCloud since I have my local copy.

Do you have an offsite backup solution for your Synology? I do for all my most important data via Backblaze. I also used to use Arq[0] for Mac, but the UI wasn't very helpful when attempting a restore. This was probably 5y ago. I've been meaning to download and review the latest version.

I still find iCloud backups useful because hey, you can't have too many backups of your photos. I pay, I think, $4.99 / month for whatever tier of storage. But I have multiple devices syncing through it, so I understand if that's not a value-add for one phone.

[0]https://www.arqbackup.com

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