Comment by rsync

2 days ago

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 ... ?

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rsync

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

Nowadays I'd use immich or ente.io, which has and e2e encryption cloud as well as self-hosted setup

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 ?
  
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