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Brand new to the community but will be setting up pi hole this week on a pi zero w. I have an Android phone and am backing up all my photos and videos to Google photos. Wondering if I can somehow use the pi Zero that will be running pi hole to detect uploads to Google photos and automatically save them to a hard drive as an additional backup. Any hints would be appreciated. Thanks!

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  • the connection to Google is encrypted ... you can't really intercept the data
    – jsotola
    Commented Jan 5, 2022 at 23:13

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Pihole would only record DNS queries and currently offers no simple hooks to act when specific names are being resolved. With secure DNS, with caching and with applications ignoring/circumventing DNS server settings you may not even catch every time a domain is contacted.

To explicitly answer the question: you cannot (easily) intercept data transfer to modern secure services such as Google photos. This is a good thing, you wouldn't want others to intercept your data.

What you CAN do is create a local backup from Google photos after your data has been uploaded. A quick search brought up gphotos-sync, there are probably more/similar solutions around.

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