IOS iCloud backup - Apple needs to improve this process

[yiasou]

Scenario: Fresh phone setup & restored with 30GB of photos from previous iphone. I delete all the previous backups in iCloud and start a fresh backup. Goes all night, wake up and still says it needs 7 more hours.

As soon as I leave the house to goto work, the backup stops.

Get back home and start it again.....IT STARTS FROM THE START!!!

Apple really needs to improve this backup process by somehow breaking it down so it can backup over a couple of nights, OR allow you to pause and resume somehow with noting the changes.

Does anyone agree?

 

[maflynn]

I don't even use iCloud backup because its so poorly implemented.

 

[yiasou]

I don't even use iCloud backup because its so poorly implemented.

How do you backup then? Is there an automated way to backup over wifi to iTunes? Through a server ?

 

[Julien]

It didn't start over since it is a delta backup. One problem could be your connection is likely asymmetrical with MUCH slower upload speeds.

 

[yiasou]

It didn't start over since it is a delta backup. One problem could be your connection is likely asymmetrical with MUCH slower upload speeds.

Sorry what do you mean?

I agree that my upload speeds isn’t the best, but should it really have to to RESTART every time? It’s not reasonable to have have to leave the phone connected to wifi for 24 hours.

 

[Julien]

Sorry what do you mean?

I agree that my upload speeds isn’t the best, but should it really have to to RESTART every time? It’s not reasonable to have have to leave the phone connected to wifi for 24 hours.

https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/delta+backup

 

[Tech198]

Scenario: Fresh phone setup & restored with 30GB of photos from previous iphone. I delete all the previous backups in iCloud and start a fresh backup. Goes all night, wake up and still says it needs 7 more hours.

As soon as I leave the house to goto work, the backup stops.

Get back home and start it again.....IT STARTS FROM THE START!!!

Apple really needs to improve this backup process by somehow breaking it down so it can backup over a couple of nights, OR allow you to pause and resume somehow with noting the changes.

Does anyone agree?

I dunno,, I never use iCloud back to back up my iPhone

But iCloud for backing up your data is better, as if u sign out and sign back in, that is something that "does" resume.

 

[yiasou]

https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/delta+backup

Impossible - This hasn’t uploaded anything over 1 week.

 

[Julien]

Impossible - This hasn’t uploaded anything over 1 week.

Then one are experiencing some other problem(s) not mentioned in your OP.

 

[AeroZ]

iCloud backup pretty often gets borked, yes. I’ve also noticed that if I delete a 2GB backup from iCloud for what ever reason and start a fresh backup then it just keeps uploading for hours without completing. And when I check iCloud storage then it shows 20GB as backup size.
iCloud backup is as “reliable” as other Apple services nowadays.

 

[boston04and07]

I agree, backups on ios are not ideal. Personally what I want out of iCloud backups is the ability to recover something accidentally deleted without having to restore the entire device. I mean things like message threads, notes, contacts, files, etc. I once restored my entire iPhone in order to recover a very important messages thread that I swiped the wrong way on and accidentally deleted. Not fun.