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Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by [deleted] »

oh_sigh wrote: post #30
tauntz wrote: post #27

What's the current recommended way of getting your photos out from Google Photos? And I don't mean manually via Google Takeout (that's a dumpster fire and doesn't work most of the time) but I'd like to automate it for periodic backups. You never know when you Google Account might be killed, taking tens of years of pictures and videos with it :(

Why rely on google photos in the first place? If you are taking photos with android devices, you can backup the device folder containing the photos/videos. Also, I just tried google checkout, and it took about 30 seconds to schedule a google photos only every-2-months-for-a-year recurring takeout of my data. We'll see if it actually works...if it does, it isn't so bad.

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Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by emilburzo »

tauntz wrote: post #27

What's the current recommended way of getting your photos out from Google Photos? And I don't mean manually via Google Takeout (that's a dumpster fire and doesn't work most of the time) but I'd like to automate it for periodic backups. You never know when you Google Account might be killed, taking tens of years of pictures and videos with it :(

I use rclone[1] to do a daily local backup, just in case.

[1] https://rclone.org/

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by CraigJPerry »

oh_sigh wrote: post #30
tauntz wrote: post #27

What's the current recommended way of getting your photos out from Google Photos? And I don't mean manually via Google Takeout (that's a dumpster fire and doesn't work most of the time) but I'd like to automate it for periodic backups. You never know when you Google Account might be killed, taking tens of years of pictures and videos with it :(

Why rely on google photos in the first place? If you are taking photos with android devices, you can backup the device folder containing the photos/videos. Also, I just tried google checkout, and it took about 30 seconds to schedule a google photos only every-2-months-for-a-year recurring takeout of my data. We'll see if it actually works...if it does, it isn't so bad.

There’s a subset of users who click the takeout button, get the message saying we’ll email you in a bit and then... nothing. If you’re affected it’s not possible to get help from Google according to Mike Elgin.

I did a full export (circa 8Gb) around 18 months ago and i have around 1,000 pictures of someone else’s in my archives. I suppose other people have some of my pictures too.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by danez »

Is there a good android app for librephotos (or any other application) that offers similar features than Google Photos? A while ago I tried adding photos to my nextcloud instance, but the nextcloud app in my opinion is very rudimentary. I really missed face grouping, location search, the year based scrollbar, etc.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by olliebennett »

tauntz wrote: post #27

What's the current recommended way of getting your photos out from Google Photos? And I don't mean manually via Google Takeout (that's a dumpster fire and doesn't work most of the time) but I'd like to automate it for periodic backups. You never know when you Google Account might be killed, taking tens of years of pictures and videos with it :(

Be aware that Google Photos' API does not provide geolocation (lat/long) information from the photos; it's wiped.

AFAIK The only way to get the photos with all metadata intact is to use Google Takeout.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by Jnr »

ax0ar wrote: post #2

I wonder how this will perform when you have tens or hundreds of thousands of photos.

Sadly it won't.

I have been following it since release of OwnPhotos. Back then it was a messy university project of the original developer mixing different tech to achieve the goal. It simply stopped working with bigger sets of images.

I tried this fork as well, it has the same problem. Normally I would provide some pull requests but in this case the code base seemed too much hacked together from random things.

What doesn't work is the backend indexing part.

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by iforgotpassword »

CraigJPerry wrote: post #33
oh_sigh wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why rely on google photos in the first place? If you are taking photos with android devices, you can backup the device folder containing the photos/videos. Also, I just tried google checkout, and it took about 30 seconds to schedule a google photos only every-2-months-for-a-year recurring takeout of my data. We'll see if it actually works...if it does, it isn't so bad.

There’s a subset of users who click the takeout button, get the message saying we’ll email you in a bit and then... nothing. If you’re affected it’s not possible to get help from Google according to Mike Elgin. I did a full export (circa 8Gb) around 18 months ago and i have around 1,000 pictures of someone else’s in my archives. I suppose other people have some of my pictures too.

With the whole self isolation thing going on currently it's actually nice to see another face again every now and then. :-)

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by wscott »

tauntz wrote: post #27

What's the current recommended way of getting your photos out from Google Photos? And I don't mean manually via Google Takeout (that's a dumpster fire and doesn't work most of the time) but I'd like to automate it for periodic backups. You never know when you Google Account might be killed, taking tens of years of pictures and videos with it :(

I use gphotos-sync: https://github.com/gilesknap/gphotos-sync

Run nightly

Re: LibrePhotos: A Self-Hosted Google Photos Alternative

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Post by blackoil »

CraigJPerry wrote: post #33
oh_sigh wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why rely on google photos in the first place? If you are taking photos with android devices, you can backup the device folder containing the photos/videos. Also, I just tried google checkout, and it took about 30 seconds to schedule a google photos only every-2-months-for-a-year recurring takeout of my data. We'll see if it actually works...if it does, it isn't so bad.

There’s a subset of users who click the takeout button, get the message saying we’ll email you in a bit and then... nothing. If you’re affected it’s not possible to get help from Google according to Mike Elgin. I did a full export (circa 8Gb) around 18 months ago and i have around 1,000 pictures of someone else’s in my archives. I suppose other people have some of my pictures too.

Were the photos shared with you? or a security hole leaking private photos of random people??
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