Is there a way to auto backup from iPhones?
from eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 26 Apr 21:02
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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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anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz on 26 Apr 21:10 next collapse

Have you tried keeping immich active for the initial large photo backup so that the background task backup only has the newly taken photos to take care off?
I imagine you’ve checked the Immich faq already:
docs.immich.app/FAQ/#why-is-background-backup-on-…

Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 26 Apr 21:11 next collapse

Works just fine for me in iOS 26. Altought sometimes it doesnt do it automatically in bg and I have to open the app

ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 04:42 collapse

iOS devices are pretty horrible at keeping a background task going unless apple owns it. Probably why they can get great battery life, but also seems pretty anti competitive. Not even google’s photo backup works well unless you manually open the app once in a while.

Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 27 Apr 08:47 collapse

Yeah, one of the reasons I still prefer android.

AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world on 26 Apr 21:52 next collapse

I’m not sure how it does it, but my Synology NAS can act as a Time Machine server and my laptop backs up to it, no cloud involved. So I know it’s possible, but I don’t know what kind of open source solutions are available.

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 26 Apr 23:09 next collapse

Searching the App store for synchthing didn’t turn up synchthing but it did turn up a bunch of sync type apps like

  • Synctrain
  • Resilio sync
  • Goodsync

…etc. Might be worthwhile to try out a few.

deegeese@sopuli.xyz on 27 Apr 00:20 next collapse

Synctrain is not awful

thumdinger@lemmy.world on 27 Apr 07:05 next collapse

Synctrain runs Syncthing under the hood. I use it with my other Syncthing devices flawlessly.

Möbius Sync is also a Syncthing implementation.

B0rax@feddit.org on 27 Apr 09:51 collapse

These work in their own „folders“ on iOS, they can not be used to do a backup of fotos or other things…

comrademiao@piefed.social on 27 Apr 02:49 next collapse

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

fozid@feddit.uk on 27 Apr 05:56 collapse

Mobius sync is syncthing for iPhone. It works really well.