Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud

Re:Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the ... by emilburzo on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @11:35AM (#21585375)

> I use the Google Drive interface to backup all my photos to my local linux storage

I thought this was killed recently[1]

(this = google photos appearing in google drive)

Does it still work for you?

If yes, how? :)

[1] https://www.blog.google/products/photos/simplifying-google-p...

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Re:Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the ... by jmathai on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @06:08PM (#21589611)

Uploading to both services is still supported through the Backup and Sync app. But once uploaded they are independent copies and deleting from one doesn't delete from the other. I also expect that this support will be deprecated at some point in the future.

Not keeping Drive and Photos in sync really killed it for me. I ended up switching from Google Drive to Dropbox but I still use Google Photos.

I have photos added to my library in Dropbox automatically added to my Google Photos library and this has worked well so far. [1]

[1] https://github.com/jmathai/elodie/tree/75e65901a94e14e6fd1ff...

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Re:Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the ... by emilburzo on Thursday November 21, 2019 @01:12AM (#21591838)

I see. I was hoping there was still some way to quickly backup from google photos directly to linux.

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Re:Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the ... by mceachen on Thursday November 21, 2019 @12:28PM (#21596710)

You can use https://github.com/mholt/timeliner (open source)

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Re:Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the ... by jmathai on Thursday November 21, 2019 @03:15PM (#21599033)

There's also rclone. https://github.com/rclone/rclone

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