Keep using Photos.app like you always do. Attic quietly backs up your originals and edits to an S3 bucket you control. One-way, append-only.
Remove artificial sort — keep natural chronological order
The photo-first sort was a workaround for batch timeouts, but
skip-and-defer already handles that. The sort caused unnatural behavior:
--limit 100 would only process tiny photos, never reaching videos.
Natural DB order (roughly chronological) gives a representative mix
per run. Timeout scaling and skip-and-defer handle resilience.
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cli/src/commands/backup.ts
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cli/src/commands/backup.ts
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pending = pending.filter((a) => a.kind === AssetKind.VIDEO);
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}
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// Apply limit (preserves natural DB order for asset selection)
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// Apply limit
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if (options.limit > 0) {
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pending = pending.slice(0, options.limit);
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}
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// Sort: photos first, then videos; within each group by size ascending.
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// This keeps fast-to-export photos together and large videos at the end.
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pending.sort((a, b) => {
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if (a.kind !== b.kind) return a.kind - b.kind; // PHOTO=0 before VIDEO=1
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return (a.originalFileSize ?? 0) - (b.originalFileSize ?? 0);
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});
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if (pending.length === 0) {
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log("\n Nothing to back up — all assets are current.\n");