Iphone backup to NAS drive
Hi All
I am confused. with True Image 2017 I can backup my desktop PC to my home network drive. But I cannot seem to change the backup location for the mobile portion of the software to choose a network drive. It only lets me connect to drives and folders connected to the PC. I am confused why I can choose the network drive on one but not the other. I really do not want to leave the pc on all the time to backup my phone. Is there a way to change this?
Thanks
Mark


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Perhaps you can use a junction point to the original "local" destination to a mapped drive on the NAS. Not sure if it's supported, but don't see why it wouldn't work as a work-a-round.
Alternatively, you could use robocopy or a sync application of your choosing to sync the mobile backup folder to another destination, such as the NAS. Another possible work-a-round at least.
Please be advised that mobile backups only backup certain features as iOS and Android lock down the file system. I personally only backup my mobile phone with iTunes to the local machine and then backup that directory with Acronis to maintain backups of those mobile backup files. I do this because I personally don't see the value in only being able to restore pictures or content like that if I need to replace or upgrade my phone or just need to get back to a point in time or recover something. For those who value their mobile data - perhaps the best strategy would be to do both types of backps so you have some optoins for recovery.
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Thank you
Steve Smith and Bobbo_3cox1 for your responses
mark
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