PhotoBackup - Backup photos and videos via rsync

I’ve use this app four years and backed up terabytes of photos and videos on hand fulls of phones over that time.

If you don’t know what rsync is and a google search leaves you more confused, this isn’t the right app for you. Otherwise it works great. Microsoft’s USB sync gives up while this app keeps running and trying. I didn’t get the ssh key download to work so I don’t know if ssh works. But the rsync protocol works. If you’re having trouble check the logs on the server. The only thing on my wishlist is multiple profiles to allow easy syncing to more than one server.

Super useful app! I ran into a situation where it couldn’t read a movie file and rather then skip it it would just stop at the file. It’s really hard to find this file as the iOS photo app won’t give you file names. The only way I could do it was by attaching files to an email then I would get the number of the file and narrow it down. Once I deleted the file the app could continue backing up. It’d be great if we could get that automated somehow.

Application is failing since the very first run. Posted 1 star review and did not get any answer for a long time. Disgusting

This was my go to app for backing up my photos. But it is broken (gives error writing to socket message) when trying to backup...which leads me to believe that it needs to be updated.

I use this daily to backup all my videos and photos. I love it!

This is the best backup option for simplicity and ease when you want to backup to your personal servers over SSH. My use case involves backups of my photos, from multiple iPhones, to my personal servers to avoid third party servers such as Apple Google etc. The app uses rsync which is fabulous, and it is a one way sync which is even better. Highlights: - Simple: set up your SSH connection and then simply click one button. - Effective: all new or changed photos are pushed from your phone to your server using rsync. This is a one way sync which is the best simple backup approach. This app purposely does not do a two way sync but that is perfect for the backup model — two way sync can cause inadvertent mis-sync and file loss if you aren’t careful. The one way sync approach is preferable for simple push from phone to storage server. - Secure and Easy: supports encrypted private key authentication or password authentication. - Great support: the developer is very active on their support forum and I’ve received quick responses to my questions. If you prefer simplicity, speed of performance, ease of use, and you are maintaining your own servers because you prefer complete control over your digital assets, then this is a highly recommended app for photo backup.

It was a perfect App. But the speed dropped to 3-20kBs in 5G wifi environment after updated to IOS 11(iphone7). Tried restart the cellphone and reinstall the app, neither helps. Works as usual in the other cellphone which didn't update to IOS 11. How to handle this issue?

This app works GREAT for backing up all of your photos to any machine that allows ssh. It is very quick and efficient. I had a bug and posted it on the forum and the author responded daily and helped me diagnose it, and we determained it was an IOS bug. Everything is working GREAT now and I can runa backup once a month and it will ONLY backup the new photos. No more guesswork!! Thanks!!! Josh

I wish the paid version was this easy to use. The only rsync app for iOS. Look forward to more updates.