Citation needed. Get a Synology NAS and use their Photos app which backups Live photos on both iDevices and Androids. Buy it for life.
thenaturalist 2 days ago [-]
Let's be real, that's already far less approachable to 90% of consumers I know.
The simples hurdle just being knowledge.
The existence of NAS is probably an unknown unkown to a large part of the population.
Compare that to "there's an app for that" & plug USB.
Drastically simpler.
No skin in the game either way, but I can very much understand OPs reasoning and would reach the same conclusion.
pdxandi 2 days ago [-]
I've been doing this for many years and am pretty happy with it. I can sync from my Android and my wife's iPhone. The Photos app is nice and smooth. Backups happen automatically in the background. It can even de-dupe and clean up old photos that have been backed up. All in all, quite pleased with it.
HuwFulcher 2 days ago [-]
You’re looking at £300ish for an entry level Synology and the storage. That isn’t a realistic expense for many users.
Jnr 20 hours ago [-]
Over time it saves money. I got a home server and a tiny remote backup server 8 years ago and it runs quite a few services saving me hundreds each month and costing in electricity and hardware (over time) about 15EUR/mo. The longer it runs, the cheaper it is. Most of the updates are automatic so no babysitting required.
MehdiHK 19 hours ago [-]
Synology is still my go to with the model I already purchased. But I'm not sure I'll be buying them again after this:
I wouldn't use it personally, but I could see it being useful for my parents or family.
ifuse and rsync works fine for me.
SwamyM 2 days ago [-]
I would love this if it allowed me to backup all photos taken with the iPhone to an external drive. Currently, Apple dumps all pictures (from the Camera, from iMessage, WhatsApp, etc.) into folder makes it difficult to backup just my pictures.
polymatter 2 days ago [-]
Thank you for including a non subscription “lifetime” payment option.
atmosx 1 days ago [-]
I am using PhotoSync to backup photos from iPhone to a self-hosted Photoprism via WebDAV (accessible from everywhere via tailscale).
You can load the IPhone’s pictures on Linux using the folders namespace and then rsync from the loaded namespace to /local…
trinix912 2 days ago [-]
But does it work for Live Photos which is the main premise of this app?
wood_spirit 2 days ago [-]
I use a usb cable and a Linux laptop to copy to a couple of external hard drives (which I store separately). It’s all manual but not too orrenous although i ought backup more often. The biggest hassle is accessing the new heic format on pretty much everything.
Could it all be made into a sd card image for a pi zero perhaps? Even with a web ui accessible over Wi-Fi? A basic cheap sync-cable-appliance that non-techies can easily use?
rsync 2 days ago [-]
I think I heard that the latest 'rclone' now, finally, support iCloud ... but I think there is an issue there because you can't sync full quality / RAW photos to icloud, can you ?
RockRobotRock 1 days ago [-]
rclone has support for iCloud Drive, but it sounds like you are talking about iCloud Photos, which is a different service.
The iPhone camera can also shoot directly to an attached SSD.
Citation/proof strongly needed on 20 Gbps
Citation needed. Get a Synology NAS and use their Photos app which backups Live photos on both iDevices and Androids. Buy it for life.
The simples hurdle just being knowledge.
The existence of NAS is probably an unknown unkown to a large part of the population.
Compare that to "there's an app for that" & plug USB.
Drastically simpler.
No skin in the game either way, but I can very much understand OPs reasoning and would reach the same conclusion.
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/nas/synology-requ...
ifuse and rsync works fine for me.
https://imazing.com/backup-iphone-ipad#:~:text=Choose%20iPho...
BackiGo Pro Yearly (1 Year) $6.99
BackiGo Pro Monthly (1 Month) $0.99
BackiGo Pro Lifetime $14.99
I'm not aware of an iOS app named "rsync" and ... presumably you don't have a shell ... ?
https://pilabor.com/blog/2022/01/access-and-recover-files-fr...
Nowadays I'd use immich or ente.io, which has and e2e encryption cloud as well as self-hosted setup
Could it all be made into a sd card image for a pi zero perhaps? Even with a web ui accessible over Wi-Fi? A basic cheap sync-cable-appliance that non-techies can easily use?
This project lets you download from the latter: https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...