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I built an app to backup Live Photos from iPhone to external hard drives

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Re: I built an app to backup Live Photos from iPhone to external hard drives

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Plug it in to the USB port on the phone. iPhone Pro can transfer at up to 20 Gbps but the non-pro models are much slower. The iPhone camera can also shoot directly to an attached SSD.

> iPhone Pro can transfer at up to 20 Gbps Citation/proof strongly needed on 20 Gbps

Right you are. I was going off my (bad) memory. It’s a 10 Gbps port.

Re: I built an app to backup Live Photos from iPhone to external hard drives

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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…

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 ?

rclone has support for iCloud Drive, but it sounds like you are talking about iCloud Photos, which is a different service.

This project lets you download from the latter: https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do...

Re: I built an app to backup Live Photos from iPhone to external hard drives

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I just use rsync, works great

Would you explain how you are using rsync to backup photos on an iPhone ? I'm not aware of an iOS app named "rsync" and ... presumably you don't have a shell ... ?

Don't know if still works, but this is how I did it back in the days I had an iPhone:

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

Re: I built an app to backup Live Photos from iPhone to external hard drives

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>home NAS setups aren't realistic for most users Citation needed. Get a Synology NAS and use their Photos app which backups Live photos on both iDevices and Androids. Buy it for life.

A Synology NAS doesn’t last for life.

Re: I built an app to backup Live Photos from iPhone to external hard drives

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>home NAS setups aren't realistic for most users Citation needed. Get a Synology NAS and use their Photos app which backups Live photos on both iDevices and Androids. Buy it for life.

A Synology NAS doesn’t last for life.

And isn't protection against fire, flood, theft or other disasters.

Re: I built an app to backup Live Photos from iPhone to external hard drives

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I just use rsync, works great

Would you explain how you are using rsync to backup photos on an iPhone ? I'm not aware of an iOS app named "rsync" and ... presumably you don't have a shell ... ?

here is the script I use https://gist.github.com/er0k/86843b62fedc2f533068f04c689be97...
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