Moving from Google Drive to Nextcloud
My Google Drive’s been hitting the limit for some time. I do not like to keep everything in Google any more. So I decided to move everything from Google to self-hosted Nextcloud (https://nextcloud.com/).
I used rclone (https://rclone.org/) to copy photos from Google Photo first.
# Installation
curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash
# Configure Google Photos so that rclone can talk to Google Photos API
# c.f. https://rclone.org/googlephotos/
# Copy google photos, by date
rclone copy /path/to/local/directory remote:media/by-day
Once copied all the photos, I moved the directory in Nextcloud local directory. As Nextcloud client is configured to sync local contents to the host, photos were copied to Nextcloud in a while.
Then deleted all the Google Photos, and configured my Android to backup photos to Nextcloud.
![](https://minamirnd.work/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-01-at-0.25.01-1024x418.png)
Google must be safer place to store digital copies. But Nextcloud is at least my own server and my 10-year-old Mac still has a huge enough space to store files after all.