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Is there a way to auto backup from iPhones? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 month 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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[–] eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Have you tried using it yourself? One of the troubles I've found is apps saying they will do something but it doesn't happen because the OS has obscure ways of controlling background tasks. And it prioritises apps that get opened manually, which doesn't work for a backup that is meant to be set and forget

[–] jnod4@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You're doing the biggest ad against iPhones. I was planning to get one but man it would suck if I can't even have a background task of my own choosing

[–] eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

The more I have to deal with them the less interesting they become.. they work best for people who want to just do what apple tell them

[–] fozid@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

iPhone isn't a phone for doing things of your own choosing. The whole concept of iphone is you slot into the apple way. Apple knows best 👍

[–] fozid@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's on my mother in law's iPhone, and connects to my server running syncthing. It's very reliable. Been running for around 6 months with no issues. I have 4 mobile devices connecting to my server with syncthing, 3 android 1 iPhone

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

Do you need to interact with it regularly for it to work in the background?

[–] fozid@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

No, not at all as far as I am aware. It runs itself periodically.