Backup iCloud Photo Library to Unraid

Hi It's a great video. It have been working for a time now but.. I hade to cjange my password to Icloud and now the icloudpd will not function. How do set my new password in Icloudpd

No idea why but this doesn't work for me and I get errors when trying to load it. Something about privatedb access is disabled for this account. Any ideas?

EDIT turns out if you have advanced data protection on, this docker won't work.

could you do a update, on the settings you have config for this and immich? one issue i found i need to download photos into one dir for immich to pick up and import.

I love the video man! Any advice on what to do for icloudpd not finding the .mounted file? I have put the file in the data directory (and basically everywhere else I can think of for testing) and I still get an error in the logs saying that the failsafe file is not present

argggh, i got excited for a second, but unfortunately this still requires icloud photo backup to be turned on, welp. Its nice for people that use the icloud service :) i was hoping for an easier way to directly sync to my truenas scale server, the search continues.

if you update / edit or delete a photo in icloud, will this app sync that update to your local library?

I’m an Immich user, love it, but… THIS is the missing piece! I can’t wait to try this… one thing i would like to mention, this might solve the issue of keeping track of deletes and edits… if you delete or edit from iCloud, does this app have knowledge of that? I’ve been thinking about how to somehow sync deletes accross all devices. …. If you delete from the file system on a shared library in Immich, then it will flag it offline and remove it but only if the delete or edit is synced. I’m going to look into this more because i feel the missing piece to all of these backup programs is that when you purge or remove photos, they remain in the other systems. (Like google photos, Immich, etc.)

Does anyone else have trouble after the intialize with an incorrect username or password error and no Keyring file? Not sure what I'm doing wrong???

Great video, thanks, because if you I got this running :). Question: if I delete an old picture from my phone, will it also delete it from my server when it performs a sync? Vice versa if I delete something from my server, will it delete it in my iCloud when it performs a sync?

So i figured it out, in your appdata folder in unraid inside rhe icloudpd folder. There will be a file called icloudpd.conf, if you edit that with something like notepad++ add the line force_gid=true and save the file. Once that is done restart the container all should be working

How was i not aware of this channel having used unraid for several years.

Great video -- excited to get this up and running for my family. I got the container up and config'd, but hit a snag trying to initialize.
"ERROR Group id, 100, already in use by the group: group - exiting. If you must to add your user to this pre-existing system group, please set the force_gid variable to True"

I'm not sure where to find the force_gid variable? Any ideas?

Great video! Just leaving here that Advanced Data Protection (ADP) needs to be turned off for icloudpd to function.

This is ofcource more convinient from the point that you don't need to setup apps on phones of all the family members, though the big elephant in the room is that you still need big enough iCloud subscription which you are paying constantly for...

How does this handle Live Photos? Does it save it as a seperate image and video file or is it able to integrate them properly?

Great video, and glad to have found your channel. One suggestion for an easier way to create the ".mounted" file is with the unix command "Touch". If you open a terminal window and go to the directory where you want the file, then type "touch .mounted", it should create the empty file for you in one step. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos!

One more point...You said you left the default sync at 24 hours. However, the value on your screen (259200 seconds) is actually every 3 days. 24 hours would be 86400 seconds.

Interesting setup. Well done!

I've been using the next cloud app to pull my photos and videos from my iOS devices. Fairly simple to setup. I may have to check out Immach, though. Sounds promising.

is it only the photos or also the videos?

Just dropping a comment to say I recently discovered your channel. Love the vibe of your content! I have been a long time Unraid user and always seek out others who are deploying cool applications. I am eagerly awaiting the immich video as I think that is a solution I’ve been looking for for a long while now. Keep up the great work! Subbed and notified 😊

Video on Immich please

Ooo and one more thing! Unraid is NOT a backup. Family pics need an additional storage place. I have external usb drive Unassigned Devices, mounted it, and am doing additional backup with luckybackup, which is a front end for rsync. This is important. I’ve lost some unknown amount of pics to unraid file corruption (bad ram I think! Replaced) where loads of good files end up stripped of metadata names and extensions and end up in lost and found folder.

Thanks for the video! There are several spot in there where you left personal info btw: your name, wife’s name, personal email. Just a heads up. Oh and “bedrock level” playing some Minecraft?!? 😊

I do have an iPhone but have spent the last decade getting my family using Google photos. Do you know of a way to get those Google photos over, WITH metadata? The Google takeout json metadata is a real shit show.

I’m right there with ya with Immich! I signed up to give that guy monthly money. I’d love to see that continued development.

Ah finally, I wish we could have seen the text steps for connecting the iCloud account.


Subbed, looking forward to more.

Thank you for the video. Does it just sync or can you also move the files from icloud? Also, would you please consider making a video on how to install and setup immich?