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Easy bulk downloads to the desktop (and hopefully to any attached external drive) would give me real peace of mind. Right now, I am a bit nervous with iCloud b
by sigjuice 6y ago
Easy bulk downloads to the desktop (and hopefully to any attached external drive) would give me real peace of mind. Right now, I am a bit nervous with iCloud being the only full copy of my photos. None of my computers have enough storage to hold all my photos.
It would be even cooler if my Synology could download all my photos directly from iCloud.
- intrasight 6y agoThat would be sweet. I'll mention that with the Synology app, you can have your photos be automatically copied to your Synology. I've been doing that since I got an iPhone, so I don't have the need to download from iCloud. Actually, I don't sync my photos to iCloud since I have my local copy.
- alsetmusic 6y ago> 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 https://www.arqbackup.com
- kalleboo 6y agoI run this docker container on my Synology to have it download a backup of my iCloud Photo Library https://registry.hub.docker.com/r/icloudpd/icloudpd/ https://registry.hub.docker.com/r/icloudpd/icloudpd/ https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_downloader https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...