{"id":718,"date":"2018-06-13T21:18:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T04:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.0.1.201\/?p=718"},"modified":"2018-06-13T21:18:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T04:18:27","slug":"auto-backup-of-photos-library-photoslibrary-when-portable-drive-is-attached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/2018\/06\/13\/auto-backup-of-photos-library-photoslibrary-when-portable-drive-is-attached\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto-backup of Photos Library.photoslibrary when portable drive is attached"},"content":{"rendered":"

This script relies on Folder Actions to fire it once it is attached to \/Volumes<\/strong> and the appropriately named hard drive is plugged in. I use it to update my off-site photo backup drive.<\/p>\n

Settings in the script are commented with instructions, which are hopefully clear enough. It does mention iPhoto, because it was written when iPhoto was a thing. A good thing, a great thing even. Now… *meh*<\/p>\n

The options for rsync are fairly standard (recursive, preserve times, extended attributes, and skip files already on the backup). The path to rsync is from OS X shipping with a version of rsync that was unbearably slow and me installing a newer version. I’m not sure when Apple ditched the older rsync version, but it sure wasn’t soon enough. I’m leaving it here for example purposes, but this script will fail if you don’t have an rsync binary there.<\/p>\n

-- The name of the physical disk.
\nproperty top_drive : \"Portable HDD\"<\/p>\n

-- The name of the disk image file.
\n-- If it is beyond root of top_drive, the (non-POSIX) path will need to be added. ie \"backups:iPhoto backup.dmg\"
\nproperty iPhoto_dmg : \"Photos backup.sparseimage\"<\/p>\n

-- The name of the disk image drive.
\nproperty iPhoto_drive : \"Photos backup\"<\/p>\n

-- POSIX path to iPhoto Library (Default is ~\/Pictures\/iPhoto Library).
\nproperty iPhoto_lib : quoted form of (POSIX path of ((path to pictures folder) as text) & \"Photos Library.photoslibrary\")<\/p>\n

-- rsync options
\nproperty rsync_options : \"-rtE --ignore-existing\"<\/p>\n

-- Path to rsync binary.
\nproperty rsync_path : \"\/usr\/local\/bin\/\" -- Leave blank (\"\") if not using a user installed version of rsync.<\/p>\n

on logErr(the_msg, the_num)
\n\tdo shell script \"logger '\" & \"iPhoto backup: \" & the_msg & \" (\" & the_num & \")'\"
\nend logErr<\/p>\n

on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
\n\tset new_item to item 1 of added_items as text
\n\tif new_item is (top_drive & \":\") then
\n\t\ttell application \"Finder\"
\n\t\t\ttry
\n\t\t\t\topen top_drive & \":\" & iPhoto_dmg as alias
\n\t\t\t\tdelay 10
\n\t\t\ton error errMsg number errNum
\n\t\t\t\tmy logErr(errMsg, errNum)
\n\t\t\tend try
\n\t\tend tell
\n\t\tset n to 0
\n\t\ttry
\n\t\t\tset rsync_options to rsync_options & \" \"
\n\t\t\trepeat until n = 10
\n\t\t\t\ttell application \"Finder\" to set all_drives to name of every disk
\n\t\t\t\tif iPhoto_drive is in all_drives then
\n\t\t\t\t\tset start_time to current date
\n\t\t\t\t\tset rsync_it to (do shell script rsync_path & \"rsync \" & rsync_options & iPhoto_lib & \" \" & quoted form of (\"\/Volumes\/\" & iPhoto_drive))
\n\t\t\t\t\tset total_time to (current date) - start_time
\n\t\t\t\t\tmy logErr(\"Done\", \"\" & total_time & \" sec\")
\n\t\t\t\t\texit repeat
\n\t\t\t\telse
\n\t\t\t\t\tdelay 6
\n\t\t\t\t\tset n to n + 1
\n\t\t\t\tend if
\n\t\t\tend repeat
\n\t\t\ttell application \"Finder\" to eject disk iPhoto_drive
\n\t\t\tdisplay dialog \"iPhoto backup complete.\" & return & return & \"You may now eject the disk \\\"\" & top_drive & \"\\\".\" with icon 2
\n\t\ton error errMsg number errNum
\n\t\t\tmy logErr(errMsg, errNum)
\n\t\t\tdisplay dialog \"Oops! An error occurred. :(\" & return & return & errNum & \" : \" & errMsg with icon 0
\n\t\tend try
\n\tend if
\nend adding folder items to<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This script relies on Folder Actions to fire it once it is attached to \/Volumes and the appropriately named hard drive is plugged in. I use it to update my off-site photo backup drive. Settings in the script are commented with instructions, which are hopefully clear enough. It does mention iPhoto, because it was written […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10,20,23],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code","tag-applescript-2","tag-iphoto","tag-macintosh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}