Comment by upcoming-sesame
9 hours ago
All I want is to automatically periodically backup my Google Photos to some S3 compatible storage like B2. I want to do that in case Google nukes my account one day for whatever reason.
I have not found any way to do that until today.
In addition, my local network is slow and I don't have much storage I am limited to solutions that are cloud-to-cloud.
If anyone has any idea, please help me out
Presumably you take your photos on your phone, so can you sync from there?
You could manually do it with Google Takeout -> <S3 backed service> before letting your phone sync handle it going forward if that’s a big backlog.
For example, I use Apple and Google on my phone to do this, I think you’d just need to find some app/service combo.
Google ripped away the functionality to access your original Google Photos files via any programmatic method vs the manual Google takeout.
This was the biggest reason I also had to move away from Google Photos when all I really wanted was protection from getting my account accidentally G-structed with zero way to contact a human to get my files back.
rclone. https://rclone.org/
I am very much aware of rclone, but don't see how it solve the problem I mentioned
Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you’re looking for. Rclone has a Google Photos backend and an S3 backend. I haven’t used it but assumed you could simply copy from Google Photos into S3.
https://rclone.org/googlephotos/
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I went down the same rabbit hole recently, and there are basically no good options except to periodically do a full Google Takeout of your images. There were tools that used to work, but Google broke them.
One of the many reasons I finally moved off Google Photos.