Preferred method of backup?

[Paco II]

Early on, iCloud Backup was inferior to an iTunes backup. That hasn't been the case for some time now, so I rely entirely on iCloud Backup. I pay the $0.99/mo to have enough space for backing up 5 devices.

 

[getrealbro]

Those of you who are using iCloud as your ONLY backup might want to read through the following two threads from about a year ago….

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/icloud-backup-failures.1956323/#post-22571028

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/icloud-backup-iphone-6s.1951131/

In them you will see that I documented numerous SILENT failures of iCloud backups on ALL three of our iOS devices. I even furnished Apple with the Apple Configurator 2 logs of these failures -- at their request.

FWIW after my detailed evaluation of iCloud backups, I quit backing up our iOS devices via iCloud — iCloud backups were (perhaps still are?) not reliable enough to depend on even as a 2nd backup.

—GetRealBro

p.s. Yes I know we now have a new iOS. But have any of you actually checked to see if your “nightly” iCloud backups are working?

 

[Paco II]

One person's experience doesn't guarantee for all, but fwiw, I've done two iCloud restores in the past month, and both restores without a hitch.

Those of you who are using iCloud as your ONLY backup might want to read through the following two threads from about a year ago….