Is there a recommended way to backup all my iNat data?

if by “original images”, you’re talking about the true source images saved on your machine, as opposed to the “original” images downloaded from iNat to your machine, i don’t think there’s an efficient way to do this. (although iNat does provide the original filename on photo pages, i don’t think there’s an easy way to get this information short of scraping, and even then, filenames change. you could do some sort of image matching, but that would involve downloading a bunch of images.)

there are already existing repos in GitHub that offer various kinds of code to download data and images from iNat, but i would be hesitant to use them except in extreme situations because:

you may be interested in: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/naturtag-organize-your-photo-collection-with-inat-metadata/33959.

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