Comments on: how can i backup a flickr account under linux?

Question: how can i backup a flickr account under linux?

jeffcovey — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:56:30 -0800

how can i backup a flickr account under linux?

i'm considering moving all my photos to flickr and downloading them
regularly for backup. what do you recommend for doing this on a linux
system?

preference is given to commandline tools that can run from a cronjob.
i'd like to set it and forget it, and just check the cron email for
errors. if necessary, though, i'll set myself a reminder to run a gui
tool periodically.

the most promising solution i found was mounting through flickrfs and
rsyncing to a local directory. unfortunately, flickrfs seems to be
abandonware, with bugs possibly coming from being so out-of-date. it
mounted well the first time, but now doesn't even create a directory for
my sets when it's run.

thanks for any help you can offer.

sincerely,
jeff

By: dmd

dmd — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:40:26 -0800

Offlickr is what you want.

I am currently working on extending it to download videos as well - if you poke me in a week or so I'll have a patch, Hugo's been lazy about importing my patches lately.

By: thebabelfish

thebabelfish — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:29:31 -0800

There's Net::Flickr::Backup (which comes with examples of usage). It hasn't been updated in a while, but I haven't noticed it missing any features. It's what I currently use.

By: chrisamiller

chrisamiller — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:41:25 -0800

I've heard good things about Conduit.

By: devbrain

devbrain — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:57:34 -0800

By: zippy

zippy — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:39:26 -0800

Do any of the flickr backup solutions also capture comments posted on the photo page?

By: dmd

dmd — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:32:13 -0800

FYI, Offlickr doesn't work with the latest version of the Python Flickr API. I've patched it to work - contact me if you need my patches. I'll try and get Hugo to wake up soon.

By: jeffcovey

jeffcovey — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:57:50 -0800

thanks for all the ideas, everyone! offlickr seems to be working best for me so far.

sincerely,
jeff

By: dmd

dmd — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:04:54 -0800

My version of Offlickr also backs up videos and photoset metadata now. And yes, it backs up comments.

It lives here, temporarily until Hugo updates his site with my changes.