{"id":766,"date":"2021-02-02T03:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bullyrooks.com\/?p=766"},"modified":"2021-05-30T09:35:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T16:35:33","slug":"backing-up-google-photos-to-your-synology-nas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bullyrooks.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/02\/backing-up-google-photos-to-your-synology-nas\/","title":{"rendered":"Backing Up Google Photos to Your Synology NAS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of the main purposes of your NAS can be to support data backup. Even if you are backing up from a computer into your NAS, I still recommend having an offsite or cloud backup solution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both my wife and I use google photos which is nice because picture and movies taken on your phone are automatically backed up in google photos and are available online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, we recently lost a bunch of data from google photos. An accident deleted a years worth of photos and unfortunately, there’s now no way to get them back. I decided that it would be worth it to have a NAS backup of that data, which is inline with my vision of having one set of data on the device (phone, laptop or desktop), one version on the NAS and one version in the Cloud (google or in our case, backblaze which I’ll cover in another article).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Code Repository<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I found a docker based task which will log into your google photo account, pull down anything it finds there and copy it to your NAS. The code repository is here<\/a> and it has the documentation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Setting Up Your NAS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You’ll need to make some new directories<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\/volume1\/docker\/gphotosync\n\/volume1\/${your user directory}\/gphotos<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Setup Google to Allow Access<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
I’m actually following the directions here<\/a>.  I’m going to copy them here to make it easier to read and follow along.  There have also been some updates which I’ll cover in my docs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Go to google cloud platform<\/a>.  You automatically have an account as a google service user.  Just log in with the same account you use on your phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Click Create Project <\/code>button<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Call it gphoto-sync<\/code> and hit create<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In order to enable access we need to go to the photo api.  Click on the project you just created<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In the search box type photos<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Pick photos library api<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Select Enable<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This allows your account to use the photos API.  We still need to authorize our app to access that API though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Go the the consoles api page<\/a>. (make sure that gphoto project is active in the dropdown).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Click OAuth consent screen.  Select External and hit Create<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Type a name for the app and select an email from the dropdown<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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You’ll need to add another email for the developer contact info.  Then hit Save and continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don’t set any scopes and hit Save and Continue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Don’t set any test users and hit save and continue<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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On the summary page hit back to dashboard.  Now select Credentials, select create credentials and select OAuth Id from the dropdown<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Select Desktop Application<\/code> as the application type.  Use gphoto-sync<\/code> as the app name.  Hit Create<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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When you get back to the main screen hit download secret file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Go back to Oauth consent screen and hit publish app<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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You should see that it has been published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Start Docker and Authorize Your App<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Copy your secrets file up into your \/volume1\/docker\/gphotosync<\/code> directory.  Rename it to client_secret.json<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Its not going to sync the first time.  You need to actually authorize your client to access that API.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n
First, start up docker.  You need to do this via SSH<\/a>.  We’re using interactive mode (-it) so that we can interact with the application as its running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
~$ sudo docker run \\\n    -ti \\\n    --name gphotos-sync \\\n    -v \/volume1\/${your user directory}\/gphotos:\/storage \\\n    -v \/volume1\/docker\/gphotosync:\/config \\\n    gilesknap\/gphotos-sync:latest \\\n   \/storage<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
you should see a message similar to this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-02 15:00:02 WARNING  gphotos-sync 2.14.2 2021-02-02 15:00:02.202815\nPlease go here and authorize, https:\/\/accounts.google.com\/o\/oauth2\/v2\/auth?response_type=code&client_id=8...ch7.apps.googleusercontent.com&redirect_uri=urn%3Aietf%3Awg%3Aoauth%3A2.0%3Aoob&scope=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.googleapis.com%2Fauth%2Fphotoslibrary.readonly+https%3A%2F%2Fwww.googleapis.com%2Fauth%2Fphotoslibrary.sharing&state=lN1...v08&access_type=offline&prompt=select_account\nPaste the response token here:<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
copy the url from the screen and paste it into a browser.  You’ll see a google OAuth window.  Select your account (that you want to get the photos from)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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You’ll see a warning window.  Click Advanced <\/code>and Go to gphoto-sync<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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You’ll see two permissions windows.  Click Allow on both<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Click Allow on the next confirmation window<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Grab the token from the sign in page.  Copy it into your clipboard<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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and paste it into your SSH prompt and hit enter.  You should see it start to process your images<\/p>\n\n\n\n
02-02 15:05:32 WARNING  Indexing Google Photos Files ...\n02-02 15:05:33 WARNING  indexed 3 items\n02-02 15:05:33 WARNING  Downloading Photos ...<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Automating the Backup<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
This script only executes once.  It will download all of your photos (unless there’s a failure and the container stops), but it won’t pick up any new ones since the last time it ran.  Now we need a way to tell the container to run daily (or weekly, etc…).  You can write a cron <\/code>to schedule the container to run, but I actually like the Synology Task Scheduler<\/code> for this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Go to the DSM and open up the Control Panel<\/code> (make sure Advanced Mode is enabled) and open Task Scheduler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Create a new Scheduled Task for a User-defined Script<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Give the task a name (I use Google Photo Sync) and run as root<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Schedule to run daily at some time (I use the default of midnight)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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On Task Settings you can set a notification email (but this can get noisy).  Make sure to set User-defined script to run your docker container with the name of the container you just created<\/p>\n\n\n\n
docker container start gphotos-sync<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
You’ll need to repeat this process for each account you want to backup.  This means generating a client secrets for each user, creating a separate docker container (with a unique name) and separate scheduled task.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Please let me know how this worked for you in the comments.  I would like to hear if it worked exactly as I described or if there are modifications that you needed to make in order to get it going so that I can update the documentation if needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also, please checkout my other projects and courses related to using your synology <\/a>and other backup solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finally, if you’re having issues with google permissions (or rate limiting?) I have an alternate method that you can use with the DSFile application and Google takeout<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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