Just wrote a quick script to pull dump of Picasaweb albums backup on my server & further to Amazon S3. Overall I have good trust on Google for data but it’s always a poor idea to leave all eggs in single bucket.
OK here’s the script (poorly written code. Literally spent 10mins on this, thus suggestions to improve my coding are more then welcome!)
#!/bin/bash
Destination=<PUT YOUR DESTINATION HERE!>
google picasa list-albums | cut -d"," -f1 » $Destination/tmp/album_list.txt
cat $Destination/tmp/album_list.txt | while read album
do
google picasa get “$album” $Destination/tmp
done
FileName=PicsBackup-`date ‘+%d-%B-%Y’`.tar
tar -cpzf $Destination/$FileName $Destination/tmp
gpg –output $Destination/$FileName.pgp -r –always-trust –encrypt $Destination/$FileName
s3cmd put $Destination/$FileName.pgp s3://YOUR-AWS-S3-BUCKET-ADDRESS-HERE
rm -r $Destination/tmp/*
rm $Destination/$FileName
rm $Destination/$FileName.pgp
How to use
Simply download Google Cli scripts, and get your Google account working with the installed stack. Also if you need Amazon S3 backup support then install & configure s3cmd. Once you have both of these configured with your account, simple give executable bit to the script & run!