iPhone 13 Pro Max Let’s Talk Photo Backup Workflow

[rstark18]

In the past I had a fairly manual photo backup workflow. I would plug in the phone and manually drag all current photos and videos into a desktop PC. From there they would get backed up automatically to two other places.
In prep for getting a 13PM I thought I would streamline this more.

I think what I decided on was to use iCloud Photos (200gb plan) to sync my photos to the cloud. One of the reasons is I do like keeping the Live Photos intact and removing them from the Apple ecosystem breaks this.

From there I need a physical backup to my desktop PC. I’ve installed the pc iCloud extension so we’ll see how easily that works out. I’m looking for suggestions on how to automate this part a bit more.

I then (once a month or so) rename them using Advanced Renamer and they get filed in folders by month and year.

From there the pc photos get backed up to a Synology raid 1 drive and also to Box using SyncBack Pro. This happens automatically every morning when the computer turns itself on.

I’m also dealing with a 10k+ 35mm film library that I need to integrate into iCloud.

 

[rstark18]

[edit] I will most likely be deleting the iCloud PC extension (because it sucks) and I’m going to be using PhotoSync to get my images over to my PC.

 

[DDustiNN]

That is way too much unnecessary work. Just use iCloud backup and you don’t have to do any of that. I have every photo on my phone since 2012. And if you switch to iCloud photos, you can access them from any device (PC included).

 

[rstark18]

That is way too much unnecessary work. Just use iCloud backup and you don’t have to do any of that. I have every photo on my phone since 2012. And if you switch to iCloud photos, you can access them from any device (PC included).

I am now using iCloud Photos for my working copy of all my photos and like it so far.

The other stuff is strictly backup.
I come from the professional photography world and backups were extremely important. It is only a matter of time until a source gets corrupted or accidentally deleted (even iCloud isn’t bulletproof). I’ve seen it many times.

 

[Unhyper]

I just sync the entire icloud photo library onto my mac and Time Machine handles backups to my NAS, as well as a manual copy onto an external occasionally.