Installing zeitkapsl

Download the zeitkapsl application on the platform

iOs
Android
Desktop
>_ CLI

iOS

Download and install from the Apple App Store and login using your e-mail and password and optionally your second factor.

After installation, the application will request permission to send notifications and access your media. To ensure full functionality, grant all requested permissions.

WARNING

The app also works with limited media access, but automatic backup won't work.

You will also be asked to enable automatic backup. For the best experience and to ensure your media is consistently protected, it is recommended to accept this option.

If you don't enable automatic backup, you can select the items you want to backup manually via the media grid.

Select one or many items and hit the upload button in the bottom navigation bar.

All settings can be adjusted at any time in the settings menu.

Android

Download and install from the Google Play Store and login using your e-mail and password and optionally your second factor.

After installation, the application will request permission to send notifications and access your media. To ensure full functionality, grant all requested permissions.

WARNING

The app also works with limited media access, but automatic backup won't work.

You will also be asked to enable automatic backup. For the best experience and to ensure your media is consistently protected, it is recommended to accept this option.

If you don't enable automatic backup, you can select the items you want to backup manually via the media grid.

Select one or many items and hit the upload button in the bottom navigation bar.

All settings can be adjusted at any time in the settings menu.

Desktop

With the desktop application you can quickly import your photo library from external disks or your computer and also keep a full local backup of all your zeitkapsl data.

Download the Desktop Application from our official download and follow the installation procedure.

• Windows: Download installer
• macOS: Download DMG
• Linux: Download Flatpak/DEB/RPM/PKG

Once installed launch the zeitkapsl app. After successful login, you have the following options.

Backup a local directory

• Select one or more local directories you want to upload to zeitkapsl
• Click Backup and follow the upload progress
• Items that could not be uploaded, you can check the reason by clicking on the little red cross (❌)

Photos and Videos are checked for duplicates automatically. If they appear in more than one folder, they are uploaded only once and then linked to multiple albums

Export from zeitkapsl to a local directory

In case you don't want to stay with zeitkapsl or just want to keep an extra copy of all your data in original quality with full metadata, you can click on the Download tab.

There you select a target directory and start the download process.

A progress bar informs you about the progress or potential download issues.

This process works incrementally, you can repeat this at any time and it will only download items you don't have already locally.

Google Takeout

Here you can import existing Google Photos Takeouts, for details see migrate from google photos

Settings

There you see information about your storage usage, the logged in account, and you can select whether you want to upload photos and videos or just one of them.

WARNING

If you disable photos and videos in the settings, nothing will be uploaded to zeitkapsl and backup won't work

>_ cli

Yes! Really, we provide cli /ᐠ｡ꞈ｡ᐟ\ Download the cli from our official download. For times when you prefer to run zeitkapsl from the command line on your server.

Make sure you have ffmpeg and vipsthumbnail installed.

Windows:

• Install scoop.sh
• scoop install libvips ffmpeg
• Put the zeitkapsl-cli.exe somewhere you can launch it from.

MacOS

• Install brew.sh
• brew install vips ffmpeg
• Put the zeitkapsl-cli in your $PATH

Linux

• Install vipsthumbnail and ffmpeg via your distribution's package manager
• Install zeitkapsl-cli to /usr/local/bin/zeitkapsl-cli