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mandarons / icloud-drive-docker

Dockerized iCloud Client - make a local copy of your iCloud documents and photos, and keep it automatically up-to-date.
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[FEATURE] support for parallel downloads #92

Open Mrc527 opened 1 year ago

Mrc527 commented 1 year ago

Use case As a user, I want to download the entire content of my iCloud account to have a local backup. This means, as I own a 2TB account, I have to potentially download a lot of files and pictures. Unfortunately, this tool executes the file download sequentially which causes the sync job to last weeks.

Describe the solution you'd like I would like to enable parallel downloads of files. This would shorten the script run time and allow a more frequent sync.

Describe alternatives you've considered I could think of having different folders with different synchronisation times, to allow frequent updates for folders with frequent changes and sporadic updates for folders I use less.

But this solution is very cumbersome and forces me to decide beforehand which folders I want to keep synchronised more and less often.

mandarons commented 1 year ago

asyncio is another option to use. But this will need icloudpy to support asyncio first. Here is the issue in icloudpy to track: https://github.com/mandarons/icloudpy/issues/10