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.
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Back up your iCloud Photos library to Scaleway Object Storage (S3-compatible).
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Attic reads the Photos.sqlite database directly, exports originals via a companion Swift tool called [ladder](../ladder), and uploads them to a Scaleway S3 bucket. A local manifest tracks what has already been backed up so subsequent runs only upload new assets.
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Attic reads the Photos.sqlite database directly, exports originals via a companion Swift tool called [ladder](https://github.com/tijs/ladder), and uploads them to a Scaleway S3 bucket. A local manifest tracks what has already been backed up so subsequent runs only upload new assets.
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## Prerequisites
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- [Deno](https://deno.land/) (v2+)
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- The `ladder` binary, built from the sibling `../ladder` Swift project. Ladder uses PhotoKit to export original photo/video files from the Photos library.
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- The [ladder](https://github.com/tijs/ladder) binary. Ladder is a separate Swift tool that uses PhotoKit to export original photo/video files from the Photos library.
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- A Scaleway Object Storage bucket and API credentials
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- macOS (Photos.sqlite access and Keychain are macOS-only)
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security add-generic-password -s attic-s3-secret-key -a attic -w "<your-secret-key>"
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Build the ladder binary:
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Build the ladder binary (see [ladder](https://github.com/tijs/ladder) for details):
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```bash
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