Robust solution for iPhone 6 picture backup

easyrider · 14 Nov 2014 at 00:53

Used Dropbox with android and it just works...

Dropbox app for iOS is pants ..it's slow and quite frankly useless.

i downloaded one drive app and it's working for pics but for videos Im getting failed to upload

Anyone give me a robust solution to backup my photos and videos to the cloud so then I can copy them to my server from a PC?

Cheers

Frijj · 14 Nov 2014 at 08:08

Only relevant if you have Amazon prime but I think they just launched a decent service.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/clouddrive/home?ref_=cd_primepage_cdlogo

The_Baron · 14 Nov 2014 at 08:15

Dropbox was wonderful on ios7 and is now broken. I really hope they mend it as it used to be perfect

DIABLO · 14 Nov 2014 at 17:29

Google Drive?

Turbo-G · 15 Nov 2014 at 08:42

Won't iCloud photo stream do this for you, for photos at least? Does for me on my Mac. Photos are uploaded automatically and downloaded to Mac automatically - which in turn is then backed up.

MichaelAwkward · 15 Nov 2014 at 09:26

OneDrive camera roll backup has been pretty good for me. You get a storage bump too.

Arthur Hucksake · 15 Nov 2014 at 10:50

Flickr is the best. Great app and interface, 1TB of free storage. Strong privacy controls.

easyrider · 15 Nov 2014 at 12:34

Turbo-G said:
Won't iCloud photo stream do this for you, for photos at least? Does for me on my Mac. Photos are uploaded automatically and downloaded to Mac automatically - which in turn is then backed up.

Just logged into icloud from my windows 9 laptop and cannot see a folder photos? Even though I have my phone setup to backup to icloud?

Forgive me I'm a apple noob...?

easyrider · 15 Nov 2014 at 12:35

MichaelAwkward said:
OneDrive camera roll backup has been pretty good for me. You get a storage bump too.

Tried it and it been stuck on 15 movies for that last couple of days...Its slow ad pants.

easyrider · 15 Nov 2014 at 12:37

DIABLO said:
Google Drive?

will gibe it a whirl if it allows auto upload of my phone pics

Arthur Hucksake said:
Flickr is the best. Great app and interface, 1TB of free storage. Strong privacy controls.

Is it easy to copy from it to my server that was the beauty of dropbox on my android...I could install dropbox on my wndows laptop and just copy my photos to the server in windows...

lamboman · 15 Nov 2014 at 13:57

Other options are BitTorrent Sync, or using FTPS/SFTP? Will cost a bit of cash but Transmit for iOS is supposed to be fantastic, and probably worth the money if you have a requirement like this.

easyrider · 15 Nov 2014 at 14:41

lamboman said:
Other options are BitTorrent Sync, or using FTPS/SFTP? Will cost a bit of cash but Transmit for iOS is supposed to be fantastic, and probably worth the money if you have a requirement like this.

Dropbox worked on android...I'm not paying for anything

Its IOS...I love my new iphone6 but certain things like onedrive and dropbox are just broken which is a real shame. :mad:

Thanks thouogh for the info I will check it out amigo

lamboman · 15 Nov 2014 at 15:14

easyrider said:
Dropbox worked on android...I'm not paying for anything

Its IOS...I love my new iphone6 but certain things like onedrive and dropbox are just broken which is a real shame.

Thanks thouogh for the info I will check it out amigo

Should mention, Transmit isn't the only option but it certainly is the nicest to use from what I've seen. There are plenty of alternatives that are free (I use Documents by Readdle ~~though the lack of thumbnails means you can't see what you're uploading~~). You'll definitely be able to find something suitable.

EDIT: I was wrong about Documents, it does allow you to change to a thumbnail view. It's pretty much the best app of its kind that I have come across, would definitely recommend it over Transmit, despite the fact that it can occasionally be a little unstable.

DIABLO · 15 Nov 2014 at 17:54

easyrider said:
will gibe it a whirl if it allows auto upload of my phone pics

Is it easy to copy from it to my server that was the beauty of dropbox on my android...I could install dropbox on my wndows laptop and just copy my photos to the server in windows...

I was mistaken the auto picture upload part is part of the google+ app, auto uploads fine on my new iPad Mini 2, unlimited storage as well for pictures under a certain resolution. Even though it's part of Google+ none of the pictures are visible to anyone else unless you share them.

Arthur Hucksake · 15 Nov 2014 at 18:44

easyrider said:
will gibe it a whirl if it allows auto upload of my phone pics

Is it easy to copy from it to my server that was the beauty of dropbox on my android...I could install dropbox on my wndows laptop and just copy my photos to the server in windows...

You can upload directly from the Photos app with ease, in bulk but it's not as easy to manage them within Windows. You have to log into Flickr and it's all big thumbnails.

As a pure back up option though, it's good.

I think you can bulk download using the file manager within the site somewhere.

easyrider · 15 Nov 2014 at 20:06

DIABLO said:
I was mistaken the auto picture upload part is part of the google+ app, auto uploads fine on my new iPad Mini 2, unlimited storage as well for pictures under a certain resolution. Even though it's part of Google+ none of the pictures are visible to anyone else unless you share them.

Google + is to confusing for me thanks though

easyrider · 15 Nov 2014 at 20:08

Arthur Hucksake said:
You can upload directly from the Photos app with ease, in bulk but it's not as easy to manage them within Windows. You have to log into Flickr and it's all big thumbnails.

As a pure back up option though, it's good.

I think you can bulk download using the file manager within the site somewhere.

Copy and paste from windows is what I'm after ... Go out with daughter take loads of pics and videos then when I get back home on the night I logon to laptop find the pics in a windows folder and copy them to server then auto backed up to crash plan

Just tried adrive and the app 100gb again it's crap ...

Dropbox was awesome on android and I miss it

DIABLO · 15 Nov 2014 at 23:44

Have you got an older Box account that might of come with one of your phones as my account got got upgraded to a personal Pro account which is usually a paid service which allows auto camera uploads.

Turbo-G · 16 Nov 2014 at 09:02

easyrider said:
Just logged into icloud from my windows 9 laptop and cannot see a folder photos? Even though I have my phone setup to backup to icloud?

Forgive me I'm a apple noob...?

I only have Macs in the house, so sadly can't test it for you. However, I think if you download the iCloud client for windows, you simply turn photos and photo stream on. From what I've seen you'll have an /iCloud photos/my photo stream folder where your images will be downloaded to.