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gilesknap / gphotos-sync

Google Photos and Albums backup with Google Photos Library API
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Comparison to rclone with google-photos backend #446

Open wscott opened 9 months ago

wscott commented 9 months ago

One other option for downloading photos is to use the google-photos backend of rclone to download pictures. I don't find anyone that compares photos-sync with rclone. It would be nice to link to a page/issue/wiki from the top-level Readme with a comparison.

Background: I have used gphotos-sync in the past in a cron, but have recently been using TrueNAS-Scale and they have rclone support built in. I wonder if that sync would be equivalent or if I should set up some container to continue using gphotos-sync.

gilesknap commented 9 months ago

This is a good question. If you are going to try both then please post your findings and I'll add it into the documentation.

I've not looked at rclone and I wonder how they handle the many limitations of The Google Photos API given they do two way sync as I understand it.