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I'm about to pull the trigger of getting a mac mini just to get it all into the syncthing and autobackups using the following workflow:

* iphone -> icloud

* icloud -> mac

* mac -> syncthing to the backup server

Standard backup policies from that point on.



You may be interested in Libimobiledevice that lets you sync an iPhone to Linux. That may work also with a mac?

I just found out about this tool from this (recent) thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27758045


In the end this might be the most simple and workable solution. Still feels kind of bad having to roundtrip all the data through the cloud when trying to get it from one local device to another.


I use the app PhotoSync with great success. I was about to setup my old MacBook like you described, but now I don’t have to anymore.




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