Backup I Pad?

omnipeta

Please excuse my ignorance, how do I 'back up' my I Pad?
Any advice appreciated, thank you.

Browntoa

connect it to ITunes on a PC , if you have "cloud" turned on then its backing up your documents and pictures over wifi if you set it up that way


https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT203977

omnipeta

Thank you Browntoa, all sorted now :-)

DavidP24

A word of warning about backing up iPad and Iphone.

Apple are very clever at squeezing every bit of disposable income out of you, including over their iCloud service. Like everything Apple since the Apple II they are very clever and doing things in a proprietary way and not letting competitors offer the same thing.

If you do not use icloud it nags you every week saying "it has been 42 weeks since blah blah blah" and yet it will not provide the API's to allow 3rd parties to create a meaningful set and forget backup that backs up everything.

You can backup to your PC with itunes but it is messy. It insists on backing up to Drive C (unless you carry out open heart surgery with a join).

Two services you may be interested in that will at least reduce your dependency on Apple are Onedrive and Mega.


Onedrive is owned by Microsoft and provides 15gb of free storage, it supports photos and some other documents albeit limited by Apple.

Mega.NZ is a cloud backup service, it provides 50gb of free storage, it can be flakey on old Apple devices as it needs too much memory but is great for a free service. You can create a URL (web link) to any file you have uploaded.

Photos and videos are probably the most valuable data we have on our Apple devices, these two apps give you some peace of mind and can be used as additional backups if nothing else.

Just one thing more, make sure that you have them configured to wifi only

Apple recently introduced a "use mobile if wifi is bad signal" option which is set to use cellular data BY DEFAULT, a friend of mine got a bill for over £2k from their ISP because iCloud was backing up over mobile as his wifi was kwap.

Hope this helps