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Utilities for dealing with Tumblr blogs, Tumblr backup
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Backing up to external storage #184

Closed BryanWB88 closed 5 years ago

BryanWB88 commented 5 years ago

I am currently out of space on my main hard drive for saving tumblr backups. I have a network attached storage (NAS) drive to which I have been transferring as many backups as possible, but it’s a very tedious, time-consuming process, and I keep encountering errors that interrupt the transfer several hours in and force me to start over again. Is it at all possible to run tumblr_backup.py --savevideo to download the backups directly to an external storage drive?

I am using a Mac 10.14.1.

I copied the tumblr_backup.py file (but not Python, pip, or youtube-dl) to the folder on the NAS where I would want the backups downloaded. This is the location info shown in Get Info: Where: Home⁩ ▸ ⁨home⁩ ▸ ⁨admin⁩ ▸ TUMBLR⁩ ▸ ⁨CODES⁩ Server: afp://ASUSTOR (AFP)._afpovertcp._tcp.local/Home/home/admin/TUMBLR/CODES/tumblr_backup.py

For comparison, this is the location info for the tumblr_backup.py file on my computer's hard drive: Where: ‎⁨Macintosh HD⁩ ▸ ⁨Users⁩ ▸ ⁨username ▸ ⁨Documents⁩ ▸ ⁨TUMBLRARCHIVE⁩ ▸ ⁨tumblr-utils-master⁩

...and this is the cd code I have been using: cd Documents/TUMBLRARCHIVE/tumblr-utils-master

BTW, am extremely inexperienced with coding, so instructions will need to be basic and step-by-step.

Thank you for any and all help.

bbolli commented 5 years ago

There are two possibilities for you:

  1. As you described: cd to the NAS folder before starting the backup. This will create the backup folder in the current directory. This is the default mode. In your case, this would mean:

    cd /Volumes/Home/home/admin/TUMBLR/CODES
tumblr-backup.py ...

    This would create the backup inside CODES.

  2. When starting the backup, you additionally pass the option -O <folder> or --outdir=<folder> to the backup command (before the blog name) and the backup will create and save all content inside it. Note that in this case, the blog name is not automatically appended, so you'd have to include it in <folder>, so:

    tumblr-backup.py -O /Volumes/Home/home/admin/TUMBLR/CODES/blogname ...

Where the ... represent your other backup parameters. I'm not quite sure whether the /Volumes/Home part is correct, but you can check this with ls -l /Volumes in the Terminal app.