After exporting my photos for migration to Synology, Google gave me 95 2GB zip files to download. I tried downloading directly into my mapped network drive, but the speed was super slow. My tip for you is if you are familiar with docker, you can spin up a Firefox container and map your desired network drive to the container. If you download from the Docker container, it will use the NAS’s wired internet connection rather than your PC’s WiFi connection. It is a much faster process, cutting it from days to hours for me. I’m sure most of you would have thought of this right away, but after 25 manual downloads, this was a huge relief for me.
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There’s an option to change the download size. 2GB is the smallest, 50GB I believe is the biggest. Downloaded my Google Photos to import into Immich yesterday, I opted for 10GB files and had 17 zip files to download.
I have a Syncthing container copying my entire DCIM folder on the phone. It’s jank, but it works fast, and I have copies of stuff on my other devices by extension
This makes no sense to me. Why would a docker bind mount use your ethernet but using the mount directly uses wifi? And why not just turn off WiFi and force the ethernet connection to be used?
The WiFi must be on his machine that he was using to manually download the files, but he later delegated that task to a docker image, sharing the wired connection of the Synology host machine.
Yes, doing it directly instead of downloading then uploading is generally faster. As is wired instead of wireless.
A little off topic, but whats the estimates starting cost to using Synology? Ive been looking for a good syncing solution for media between my partner and I. Any good resources anyone has to share for getting started?
It is a bit off topic but when I tried to generate the files from Google takeout it failed do you have any suggestions? Also this idea of downloading directly in the NAS is very good
“failed” is a pretty bad problem description. Did you get any error messages or unexpected blank pages, where the zip files empty? … without any context no one can help you (I’m not saying I can help you with that context, but someone might be able to).
Yes I know. The problem is Google does not provide any more information just said it failed. This is a screenshot from the email
I tried again and failed, I think I will need to migrate it manually :(
I used the default split size of 2GB and now worked. I was trying to use 50GB but I think Google didn’t liked it so much
That’s a biiig difference! Sid you buy your wifi router within the last two years?