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

xmasterdev | 78 points

I wrote a guide on copying photos from an iPhone onto a Linux host: https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2024/12/22/exporting-photos-fr...

WhyNotHugo | 3 hours ago

Where is the link? How can iPhone backup directly to an external hard drive?

gerdemb | 3 days ago

>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.

gaudat | 2 days ago

I wouldn't use it personally, but I could see it being useful for my parents or family.

ifuse and rsync works fine for me.

jlarocco | 2 days ago

I would love this if it allowed me to backup all photos taken with the iPhone to an external drive. Currently, Apple dumps all pictures (from the Camera, from iMessage, WhatsApp, etc.) into folder makes it difficult to backup just my pictures.

SwamyM | 2 days ago

Thank you for including a non subscription “lifetime” payment option.

polymatter | 2 days ago

I am using PhotoSync to backup photos from iPhone to a self-hosted Photoprism via WebDAV (accessible from everywhere via tailscale).

atmosx | 2 days ago
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| 2 days ago

Would immich work for this? You can run it locally in docker container

mindwork | 2 days ago

Will it work with large (huge) photos libraries? Eg. 150k photos/videos - most of them in iCloud. Does it preserve album/folder structure?

mfa1999 | 2 days ago

Can you add a feature to upload to a ftp server?

scriu | 12 hours ago

Btw, there is also LocalSend. Pretty nifty app

mattfrommars | a day ago

Is this a native IOS app?

mattfrommars | a day ago

How much does it cost?

keroro | 2 days ago

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alain34 | 2 days ago

I just use rsync, works great

er0k | 2 days ago