You can write a cron to schedule the container to run, but I actually like the Synology Task Scheduler for this. Now we need a way to tell the container to run daily (or weekly, etc…). ![]() ![]() It will download all of your photos (unless there’s a failure and the container stops), but it won’t pick up any new ones since the last time it ran. You should see it start to process your images 02-02 15:05:32 WARNING Indexing Google Photos Files. Copy it into your clipboardĪnd paste it into your SSH prompt and hit enter. Click Allow on bothĬlick Allow on the next confirmation window Select your account (that you want to get the photos from) You should see a message similar to this: -02 15:00:02 WARNING gphotos-sync 2.14.2 15:00:02.202815Ĭopy the url from the screen and paste it into a browser. You’ll need to make some new directories /volume1/docker/gphotosync The code repository is here and it has the documentation. I found a docker based task which will log into your google photo account, pull down anything it finds there and copy it to your NAS. I decided that it would be worth it to have a NAS backup of that data, which is inline with my vision of having one set of data on the device (phone, laptop or desktop), one version on the NAS and one version in the Cloud (google or in our case, backblaze which I’ll cover in another article). An accident deleted a years worth of photos and unfortunately, there’s now no way to get them back. However, we recently lost a bunch of data from google photos. Even if you are backing up from a computer into your NAS, I still recommend having an offsite or cloud backup solution.īoth my wife and I use google photos which is nice because picture and movies taken on your phone are automatically backed up in google photos and are available online. One of the main purposes of your NAS can be to support data backup.
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