Google Photos → MinIO
PhotoBridge migrates your Google Photos into your own self-hosted MinIO server, with original capture dates restored and every file preserved exactly.
Free tier to try it · one-time pass for a full migration · no subscription
MinIO lets you run S3-compatible object storage on your own hardware — the truest “a home you control,” with no third party in the loop. Point PhotoBridge at your MinIO endpoint and it handles everything on the Google side: unpacking Takeout's archives and restoring the dates it strips out.
Google Takeout dumps the real capture date into a separate .json file, so exported photos show the export date instead. PhotoBridge reads those sidecars and writes the original date back into each photo's EXIF — your library stays in order.
Every photo and video is moved byte-for-byte. We never re-encode, downscale, or strip metadata — what lands at your destination is exactly what Google had.
Already-moved files are detected and skipped, so you can run it again safely. A migration survives interruptions and picks up where it left off — even a multi-hundred-GB library.
How it works
Pick Google Photos in Takeout at a large archive size — the in-app guide walks you through it.
In PhotoBridge, pick “S3-compatible storage” → “MinIO / Other (custom)” and enter your endpoint URL, access key, secret, and bucket.
We download each archive, restore the real dates from the Takeout sidecars, and upload everything to MinIO in a clean date-based layout.
Close the tab; we'll email you a report when your migration is complete.
Yes. PhotoBridge writes each photo's true capture date from its Google Takeout sidecar into the EXIF before uploading, so MinIO stores them with the right dates.
Only the date metadata is restored; the image and video data is uploaded byte-for-byte with no re-compression.
Yes. PhotoBridge's workers upload to MinIO from the cloud, so your endpoint must be reachable over the internet (a public hostname or tunnel) with a valid HTTPS certificate. A MinIO that only listens on your LAN won't be reachable.
Yes — multi-part, multi-hundred-GB exports are the core use case, and migrations resume after interruptions.
A free tier to try it and a one-time Migration Pass for a full migration — no subscription. MinIO itself is free, self-hosted software, so there's no per-gigabyte storage fee.
Moving somewhere else? PhotoBridge also moves Google Photos to iDrive e2, Amazon S3 Glacier, Amazon S3, and Backblaze B2.
Try it free on part of your library — dates restored, full quality, no duplicates.
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