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Is there a way to auto backup from iPhones? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 1 week ago by eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I've set up a self hosted photo system with immich, and it works doing automatic backups of photos from the filesystem, eg using termux/cron, although it is a bit flakey. Immich also works for backup, but it's less ideal.

iPhone seems to be a lot harder, backup in immich doesn't work, it seems that iPhones have a complicated was of handling background tasks which make background backups very difficult.

Does anyone know a way of doing any kind of backup automatically, without plugging in a cable and without using iCloud?

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[–] comrademiao@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The photosync app is amazing! I think I paid a onetime fee of 5$ for pro

[–] terminal@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

I can second this. Photosync works very well. Although i had to use an external library on immich so that photosync can directly send files to that folder.

[–] eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Have you tried it yourself? Does it work hands-off in a set and forget way, or do you have to open it for the background tasks to run?

[–] comrademiao@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I use it every day and have synced over 80k photos and videos to my servers with it. I absolutely love it. I know of no other option and I do not trust Immich or Nextcloud sync. I have never ever had an issue with photosync and if there is ever a rare error it tells me why.

I have it set to rsync to my local server. I open the app. It has already selected the recent media that is unsynced to said location. I then press sync and it does it in the background.

I believe the paid level above pro has some sort of auto sync based on location but I chose to not get that because I didn't need it.

Super, super recommend!

[–] eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Do you need to remember to open it regularly? Or is it sending you notifications? You mention that you open it and then it does a sync, how often do you need to do this?

[–] comrademiao@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago

I don’t see notifications in the setting. Premium has auto transfer for 2,500¥ which is like 15$ or so, but I think I only paid 5$ for pro which is enough.

It’s on my home screen, I do it once a day or so. Depends how many photos you take. I probably have close to 100,000 from 2017 to today so I back them up regularly.