Trouble with Google Photos cloud sync task in Truenas Scale

Greetings. Relatively new around here.

I’ve got a fairly fresh install of TrueNAS-SCALE-22.02.0.1 and I have added credentials for my personal OneDrive and Google Drive accounts and successfully added cloud sync tasks for them to back up into a local folder on a shared drive I created for the purpose. They run daily at midnight without issue. Set to pull and sync.

I added credentials for Google Photos (actually, the credentials for my Google Drive account were already there) and went to add a cloud sync task for that as well. I’ve tried doing a dry run as well as running the task manually and under the Task Manager window, I see the following:

Task Manager

1 in progress, 0 in waiting, 0 failed

cloudsync.sync 0.00%

Starting

And that’s as far as it gets. Never moves past 0.0%

Any thoughts or ideas? Something I am missing using the Google Photos cloud sync task vs. OneDrive or Google Drive, both of which are working fine?

No answer I regret, but I did think that Google photos was closed off from syncing? I tinkered before (not on TrueNAS) and had no success.

If you do find a solution, do let us know - I don’t use it because of the lack of file access from non Google devices/web.

IIRC Google Photos doesn’t integrate with Google Drive anymore.
So you have to use the Google Photos API with it’s limitations.

Have a look at the rclone Documentation on Google Photos:

I can recommend self-hosted Nextcloud or Syncthing for Photo Syncing, depending on your needs.

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+1 :slight_smile:

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