iPad Pro Back up photos and videos from iPad and iPhone to Synology NAS

[hajime]

Hi, my iPad Pro M1 has 256GB. My plan is whenever it gets full, I move all the video and photo files to a backup storage and delete the original ones in the device. Don't plan to use iCloud as it gets full very quickly. Actually, use of iCloud was unintentional. It seems that Apple automatically moves these files to iCloud by default.

Should I connect the iPad/iPhone to the NAS physically or just do it through WiFi even it is slow? In the former case, what is the best way to do it?

 

[sparksd]

Hi, my iPad Pro M1 has 256GB. My plan is whenever it gets full, I move all the video and photo files to a backup storage and delete the original ones in the device. Don't plan to use iCloud as it gets full very quickly. Actually, use of iCloud was unintentional. It seems that Apple automatically moves these files to iCloud by default.

Should I connect the iPad/iPhone to the NAS physically or just do it through WiFi even it is slow? In the former case, what is the best way to do it?

You can turn off iCloud uploads under Settings->Photos.

 

[bradbomb]

Just curious since I have little experience with Synology NAS, does it have a special app on the phone to copy photos to backup? If not, what is your plan to do the actual move, Files App? If Files App, it would become a multi step process. You would first have to save all your photos from the Photos app to the Files App and then connect to the NAS over Wifi to start the copy/backup. If you can physically connect, the Synology should have a way to see it as a camera and treat it the same as connecting any camera to it to back it up. If not, the iPad does not show up as a physical drive you can navigate its file structure to copy the photos.

 

[bob_zz123]

There are some Synology mobile apps that you can install that will handle this, a bit like OneDrive or Dropbox photo backups. The app you need depends on where in your NAS you want the photos to go, whether just into a folder or into the actual Synology photos "app" on the NAS. There are a few too many Synology apps that have accumulated over the years that do similar things, when I bought one it took a while to figure out what everything did.

 

[sparksd]

Just curious since I have little experience with Synology NAS, does it have a special app on the phone to copy photos to backup? If not, what is your plan to do the actual move, Files App? If Files App, it would become a multi step process. You would first have to save all your photos from the Photos app to the Files App and then connect to the NAS over Wifi to start the copy/backup. If you can physically connect, the Synology should have a way to see it as a camera and treat it the same as connecting any camera to it to back it up. If not, the iPad does not show up as a physical drive you can navigate its file structure to copy the photos.

I use FileBrowser Pro to copy from my iPad & iPhone to my (non-Synology) NAS via an SMB connection. The copy is direct from Photos (FB Pro has an interface) to the NAS, no two-step process.