Ask HN: Is there no way to incrementally backup from Google photos?

My method is to backup the photos 'at source', and treat Google Photos as another backup location. So I use Syncthing on my phone to copy new photos to my PC where I can do whatever backup strategy I like (restic, rclone and Backblaze in my case). The Google Photos app on my phone is also sending them to the cloud for convenience.

I am interested in this as well. Thanks for asking.

Does anyone use immich?[0].

Can it be used alongside Google photos so as pictures are taken they're backed up to both services?

[0] https://immich.app/

Options I have found:

Somewhat manual, using takeout (seems a lot of effort): https://www.markhansen.co.nz/google-photos-backup/

A script using a headless browser (maybe scriptable, but sounds brittle): https://github.com/vikas5914/google-photos-backup