Synology Drive - iPad - Backup

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First, thank you for the videos and info on setting up both Unifi and Synology. They have been extremely helpful!

I have an iPad with PDFs and epub books I’d like to backup to my NAS (1522+). I’m using the Drive mobile app and it appears there isn’t a straightforward way of backing up like there is for a MacBook. Is my understanding correct?

If it won’t automatically backup, is there a “preferred” method for backing up non photos.

Thank you!

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I actually do not know a great way of doing this either! Would love to know if someone else has a system for this as it does come up fairly often

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I backup my ipad to my macbook that has copies of all my ebooks on there being timemachined to the synology.

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What do you store the PDFs in? Just in Files on local storage?

Do you use iCloud?

I have iCloud backup enabled and it backs up my iPad along with all the random files I keep stored locally. I know it works because every year or two when I upgrade, I restore from iCloud Backup, and all the files are there just like on the previous iPad.

When I was learning and testing Synology Drive about 7 months back, the one thing that really annoyed me about it is that if you go to save or share, it’s not an option like Files or Dropbox are. I gave that feedback to the Synology Engineers I know when we had our next conference call and it was being put into the development timeline. Same with a native Surv Station app for tvOS. I’ll ask them if there are any updates on those two items.

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Hi James,

I store the PDFs in the iPad’s Files system. It seems like I download manuals, books, etc to my iPad and just dump them into the File structure. I do use iCloud.

I could also change my process and start downloading directly to NAS.

I’ll clean up my iCloud (another discipline problem) and start backing them up there for now.

Thanks,

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Well, you could cleanup your iCloud and ensuring iCloud Backups are enabled to run automatically every evening (that’s what I do), or you can change to storing on Synology Drive. It’s a change in workflow/behaviour, so the choice is yours.

Good luck and let us know what you decide and how it goes!