![]() You should get an email if the script ever fails so watch out for that. Apps Script has a time limit and so it's possible that it could fail if moving a large number of photos. There are a few steps to follow but it's pretty straightforward - you should only need to change two lines in the script to get this working for your account.įirst two four caveats to be aware of. There is a way to get Drive backup working again using Google Apps Script and the Google Photos API. I love Google Photos but I don't trust it - I pull everything into Drive and then I stick a monthly backup from there onto an external drive in a fire safe. Google has decided that backing up your photos via Google Drive is ' confusing' and so Drive based backup is going away this month. I have a tool that does some deduplication and puts everything in year/month folders. ![]() ![]() My personal approach at this point is to use Google Takeout to get a periodic archive of my most recent year of photos and videos. The Google Photos API has too many bugs that Google doensn't seem interested in fixing. ![]() Warning - I no longer recommend using this script to backup Google Photos. ![]()
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