Apple i cloud back up

[Buckman]

We have never used Cloud so that is not an issue. I have never posted personal photos on FB, but have posted photos of scenes from regimental days.

We use Whatsapp to post personal photos to relatives and friends. I think these photos are stored in a file on their phones unless they have set up a block like we have done and the photos are not saved to the phone, but can be viewed in the app itself.

 

[Bluetonic]

Looks very good. My son has been planning to do the same with our storage but to include mirroring between servers. He has the knowledge as he does such data management for a living. Just never seem to find the time.

Far too hard for me and he is far too busy. Perhaps when he retires.

John

Yeah, finding time is always the issue and this has been on the to do list for a couple of years.
I finally made myself get a home NAS set up a month or so ago, and it has been a steep learning curve dispite working in the IT industry for the last 20 years.
I now have most of my music hosted which includes a lot of demos and bootlegs that are not available from the usual suspects, home automation is in it's infancy but I can now control my xmas lights from my armchair or just schedule them to turn on and off at specific times in a specific mode.
Just fighting with adding other stuff like the central heating and smart meter.
Photo storage was a have to, as my eldest is at uni on an art degree and has so many photos to backup and my wife has way too many photos and her google drive is always full.

Future projects are to add a VPN and Pi-hole to the server, maybe something for over Christmas 😁

 

[Jcloughie]

Yeah, finding time is always the issue and this has been on the to do list for a couple of years.
I finally made myself get a home NAS set up a month or so ago, and it has been a steep learning curve dispite working in the IT industry for the last 20 years.
I now have most of my music hosted which includes a lot of demos and bootlegs that are not available from the usual suspects, home automation is in it's infancy but I can now control my xmas lights from my armchair or just schedule them to turn on and off at specific times in a specific mode.
Just fighting with adding other stuff like the central heating and smart meter.
Photo storage was a have to, as my eldest is at uni on an art degree and has so many photos to backup and my wife has way too many photos and her google drive is always full.

Future projects are to add a VPN and Pi-hole to the server, maybe something for over Christmas 😁

Have you thought about mirroring for added security? The way I see it is to duplicate your nas in a different location, then use proprietary software to sync, I think a nas system come with such software. So you will not be left with problems if your house burns down.

I am told that good cloud systems duplicate clients files over different servers, perhaps in different countries.

I don’t feel that cloud security is an issue for the common man. If someone hacks into my photos, good luck to them. Even my emails will make boring reading.


John

 

[Sam Vimes]

Mrs V has extensive home automation. She can control just about anything merely by asking me to do it. 😉

 

[Bluetonic]

Have you thought about mirroring for added security? The way I see it is to duplicate your nas in a different location, then use proprietary software to sync, I think a nas system come with such software. So you will not be left with problems if your house burns down.

I am told that good cloud systems duplicate clients files over different servers, perhaps in different countries.

I don’t feel that cloud security is an issue for the common man. If someone hacks into my photos, good luck to them. Even my emails will make boring reading.


John

Yeah, Mirroring or syncing to a different location is on the short term list, I just need to save up for a big HDD to do it and then probably sit a Raspberry Pi 4 with Open Media Vault or cassaOS in a corner somewhere

 

[Sam Vimes]

I've already got a PI 4 running OSMC as my media centre. The new PI 500 looks interesting but I've still got some old Pcs kicking around that I could put Linux on.

Too many hobbies, not enough time.

 

[Dustydog]

Thanks everyone . With all your pearls of wisdom I think I’ve cracked it. Using Sam’s cable #14 and following the instructions below using a portable hard drive I can now relax and spend hours sorting out all the dross from the few worth keeping.

Export photos and videos to an external storage device​

You can export photos and videos you took on your iPad directly to an external drive, a memory card, or other storage device.
Note: For photos and videos that have been edited, the unmodified original version will be exported.

1. Connect your iPad to the storage device using the Lightning or USB-C connector, or connect the device directly to your iPad.
2. Go to the Photos app
   
   on your iPad.
3. Select the photos and videos you want to export.
4. Tap
   
   , then tap Export Unmodified Original.
5. Tap your storage device (below Locations), then tap Save.

 

[borderbilly]

Thanks everyone . With all your pearls of wisdom I think I’ve cracked it. Using Sam’s cable #14 and following the instructions below using a portable hard drive I can now relax and spend hours sorting out all the dross from the few worth keeping.

Export photos and videos to an external storage device​

You can export photos and videos you took on your iPad directly to an external drive, a memory card, or other storage device.
Note: For photos and videos that have been edited, the unmodified original version will be exported.

1. Connect your iPad to the storage device using the Lightning or USB-C connector, or connect the device directly to your iPad.
2. Go to the Photos app
   
   on your iPad.
3. Select the photos and videos you want to export.
4. Tap
   
   , then tap Export Unmodified Original.
5. Tap your storage device (below Locations), then tap Save.

I told you that in post 2, pay attention at the back.

 

[Dustydog]

I told you that in post 2, pay attention at the back.

I didn’t appreciate I needed a special cable🙉
Told you I am an IT thicko😥

 

[Guzzilazz]

Let's explain the situations that you might need to consider when working out how to protect your data. In this circumstance "protect" doesn't mean preventing unauthorised access, but acting to ensure that some sort of technical or other catastrophe - e.g. physical disc failure, fire, flood, theft etc.

I have a 4 bay NAS at home. My home PC saves its data to this NAS. The 4 discs in this device can survive a single disc failure, and I can "hot swap" the failed disc if one should fail, and the unit will rebuild the data across the 4 discs. This data is then backed up (2200 at night) through a service in the cloud from the manufacturer, and gives me individual daily points of time that I can restore to - from one file to the whole shooting match.

In addition, (being an Office 365 user with 1TB storage on MS OneDrive cloud) files that I want to access from anywhere are synchronised with that service.

The security that this gives me varies from being able to replace my main PC without loads of data transfer (I just connect the new PC to the folders on the NAS - 5 minute job) through when I make changes to a document and screw it up beyond all recognition I can revert to a previous version through the backup service to being able to recover the whole lot if the house goes up in smoke...

Overkill? Possibly, but my whole IT life is much easier to manage...