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Also, I didn't include the first line in this example: /var/services/homes/ds-admin/icloudpd-venv/icloudpd-venv/bin/python /var/services/homes/ds-admin/icloudpd-venv/icloudpd-venv/bin/icloudpd -d '/volume1/Backups/ iCloud Photos/' -u -auto-delete -no-progress-bar -threads-num 3 -log-level info Turns out curly and straight quote marks are different things :) Anyway once I got that figured out it all started to work. I ran into some issues with quotation marks when I was writing some of the commands. Happy to report that I got it running and just completed my first sync! (.5TB!)

There are options you can do with it to send an email or run a script when MFA expires, but I'll let you dig into that yourself if you want to set that up. I haven't yet experienced it, but the MFA may need to be redone every couple of months so to do that you would just SSH in and manually run an `icloudpd` command and it should prompt you for MFA again. var/services/homes/ds-admin/icloudpd-venv/bin/python /var/services/homes/ds-admin/icloudpd-venv/bin/icloudpd -d '/volume1/Backups/iCloud Photos/' -u -auto-delete -no-progress-bar -threads-num 3 -log-level info

Additional configuration parameters for icloudpd can be found at icloudpd's GitHub.

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Be sure to change the -d parameter to point to the share where you want to download your images to and the -u parameter to your iCloud account email address. To get this automatically running on a schedule, create a new task in DSM's Task Scheduler that will run as your Administrator user that you SSH'd in as. var/services/homes/ds-admin/icloudpd-venv/bin/icloudpd -u -lĪt this point, you should be set up to where you can at least manually run the sync.

This may prompt for 2-factor authentication the first time you run it. var/services/homes/ds-admin/icloudpd-venv/bin/icloud -username Test connection by listing albums.

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# Login to iCloud and store password in keyring

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var/services/homes/ds-admin/icloudpd-venv/bin/pip3 install icloudpd Python3 -m venv '/var/services/homes/ds-admin/icloudpd-venv/' You'll be prompted for your Administrator user password. You'll also need to use your iCloud username instead of the example email address. In my examples I'm using the ds-admin user. You may have to change paths below depending on the Administrator account that you're using. SSH in to the NAS as a user in the Administrators group. If not already enabled, turn on SSH access. I just walked through this on a clean 220+ and this should be all you need to do to get going. My dream scenario would be to have an up to date copy of my iCloud Library (as well as other family members' libraries) on my NAS in a year/month/day folder structure, which would then be routinely backed up via Backblaze. So I'm not sure if this is doable for mere mortals.ĭo you run icloudpd from your NAS via Docker? In that case I assume it's basically a set-and-forget thing and you don't have to use a computer to run it? I've been looking for novice-level tutorials on using iclouddp but can't find any, and I'm struggling to understand how it all works. However, I'm unfortunately a complete novice when it comes to command line tools. I've also read about something called osxphotos, which seems similar. I'm assuming something like icloudpd mirrors changes in iCloud Photos back to the Synology (like editing files, deleting old files, creating new albums, etc. I'm curious to know more, as I'm looking for a way to *sync* my iCloud Photos library to my Synology if possible (as opposed to just a one-time copy, which is what I *believe* the mobile app does, though I might be mistaken about that?).

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