skicka

Yeah, external HDD is the best option here, but it's problematic if you don't have fast connection. I am on 10Mbps line which is like 1.2MB/s and it would take me about a week to download all my data. And Google Takeout links are valid for only 5 days I believe. I occasionally download everything at work, but it's a little bit troublesome. In such case backing up to different cloud provider is the simplest solution. However this is not perfect either, because it means sharing my data with another big corporation. While majority of my files in GDrive are encrypted, some are not (e.g. emails). I am yet to find a good solution for myself. I was thinking about spawning a machine in Digital Ocean, downloading data using Google Skicka [1] (which is awesome tool btw), encrypting with gpg and uploading to different cloud. I just don't know any un

My current workflow for backing up photos on Linux is: 1. Copy photos from memory card to a NAS. 2. Upload the photos to Google drive using skicka. I've got a script to simplify this, so in reality the workflow just consists of inserting the memory card and running the script. The photos then appear in Google Photos fairly quickly afterwards. I use this for both jpg and nef. I've been pretty impressed with how good Photos is at handling nef files. Skicka: https://github.com/google/skicka

This looks neat. Worth noting, there's another similar tool called skicka (https://github.com/google/skicka). It's on Google's GitHub profile, although a disclaimer says it's not an official Google product.

In the same idea : https://github.com/google/skicka