Alternative to Automatic Apple IPhone Backup
Mar 7, 2023 16:42:49 #
My partner has been using the Automatic Apple Iphone Backup for all the videos and photos taken on her phone. She has now gone over 200GB plan. The next plan is $9.99 for 2TB of storage every month for this automatic feature. Can anyone recommend a simple, less expensive way for her to backup the pictures and videos she takes with her phone?
Mar 7, 2023 16:54:07 #
geagle1313 wrote:
My partner has been using the Automatic Apple Iphone Backup for all the videos and photos taken on her phone. She has now gone over 200GB plan. The next plan is $9.99 for 2TB of storage every month for this automatic feature. Can anyone recommend a simple, less expensive way for her to backup the pictures and videos she takes with her phone?
Download them onto an external HD.
Mar 7, 2023 16:59:09 #
Mar 7, 2023 17:00:28 #
Yep, download some of the images from ICloud to a local drive, freeing up space. Alternately, buy the 2TB and use the space to backup other data from her computer as well - everyone should have an off-site disaster recovery copy of their data.
Mar 7, 2023 23:21:11 #
davidrb wrote:
Download them onto an external HD.
As typical with all things Apple, it's not easy unless you have an iOS desktop or laptop.
Mar 8, 2023 01:35:28 #
rgrenaderphoto wrote:
As typical with all things Apple, it's not easy unless you have an iOS desktop or laptop.
Is it easier with an android tablet?
Mar 8, 2023 05:45:34 #
geagle1313 wrote:
My partner has been using the Automatic Apple Iphone Backup for all the videos and photos taken on her phone. She has now gone over 200GB plan. The next plan is $9.99 for 2TB of storage every month for this automatic feature. Can anyone recommend a simple, less expensive way for her to backup the pictures and videos she takes with her phone?
I use Imazing to backup my iphone. Includes backing up and easy access to messages and photo attachments in messages. I use a windows laptop but it's available for Mac as well. Well worth the price.
https://imazing.com/backup-iphone-ipad
Mar 8, 2023 07:40:32 #
Chadp
Loc: Virginia Beach
I think Apple’s 2tb for $10 is not a bad deal. I use it for all my photos in Apple photos and as a second back up to my primary hard drive.
Mar 8, 2023 09:07:27 #
gvarner
Loc: Central Oregon Coast
rgrenaderphoto wrote:
As typical with all things Apple, it's not easy unless you have an iOS desktop or laptop.
I have no issues with my iPhone and iPad. Don’t have a Mac desktop or laptop.
Mar 8, 2023 09:59:28 #
Lucian
Loc: From Wales, living in Ohio
Agree, take a look at the offerings from some of the top SD card companies, for their iphone plug-in adapters to download your photos to a laptop. It is dead easy, and I have a Lenovo Laptop with Windows 10.
Mar 8, 2023 11:08:01 #
geagle1313 wrote:
My partner has been using the Automatic Apple Iphone Backup for all the videos and photos taken on her phone. She has now gone over 200GB plan. The next plan is $9.99 for 2TB of storage every month for this automatic feature. Can anyone recommend a simple, less expensive way for her to backup the pictures and videos she takes with her phone?
Back up to a computer. Tell her to download the User Guide to the iPhone for her specific version of iOS into Apple Books, where you can learn anything you want to about the phone, backups, sharing documents through iCloud, etc.
The procedure is different on Macs and Windows, so you really do need to LOOK IT UP. Get the latest information from the manual.
Mar 8, 2023 12:41:03 #
rgrenaderphoto wrote:
As typical with all things Apple, it's not easy unless you have an iOS desktop or laptop.
Actually it is - there’s an ICloud Ap for Windows as well. My images taken with my IPhone and stored on ICloud appear on my IPad and my Windows machine, and I can use the ICloud storage from any of the 3. And $10/month for 2TB is relatively inexpensive storage for a Major Cloud company.
Mar 8, 2023 12:45:12 #
rgrenaderphoto wrote:
As typical with all things Apple, it's not easy unless you have an iOS desktop or laptop.
I have a pc with Microsoft Windows version 11 and have no problem downloading from iCloud . (Download in batches of 500 for best experience)
Then go back and delete from iCloud, and it will delete the same across all your Apple devices. Either don’t delete the ones you want to remain on the devices or sort out later and upload back through iCloud.
Then store multiple copies of your downloads on various drives or backups in the cloud. (I love Backblaze)
Mar 8, 2023 12:58:07 #
The problem with automatic backups is what happens if and/or when you decide to not use that service anymore. You either find a way to transfer all of the accumulated storage to something else or you lose it all. If you use your own external SSDs that risk is eliminated. All you risk then is a corrupted drive which is rare (provided you use a good drive) and is mostly fixable if you are willing to spend the bucks.
Mar 8, 2023 13:09:40 #
stanikon wrote:
The problem with automatic backups is what happens if and/or when you decide to not use that service anymore. You either find a way to transfer all of the accumulated storage to something else or you lose it all. If you use your own external SSDs that risk is eliminated. All you risk then is a corrupted drive which is rare (provided you use a good drive) and is mostly fixable if you are willing to spend the bucks.
Any good Disaster Recovery initiative at a major business works like this:
There is local "online" (meaning LAN servers, NOT Internet) storage used daily. This is often in a protective RAID array configuration, which provides some measure of protection from data loss.
There is a nightly or off-peak backup of that online storage to local drives. This is usually incremental.
There is a daily backup of the incremental daily backup to a remote, off-site server. This is increasingly at one of the major server farms hosted by Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, etc.
There may also be a physical daily backup to offline drives stored at another physical location nearby. This has the benefit of protection against fire or flood or other natural disasters.
A competitor of our lab lost their server in a flood, back in the mid-2000s. They wound up losing their business (we bought it). If memory serves me correctly, their backup didn't work, or was also destroyed by water. So they were devastated.
If you care about your data, back it up! (I'm plugging in my backup drive after I post this!)
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