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0 pointsghaff3y ago0 comments

The conflation of sync and backup can actually be really dangerous. You don't want a primary backup to have the opportunity to delete files because they (apparently) have been deleted on the primary.

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sgjohnson3y ago

Yes. RAID is a good analogy.

iCloud Photos will protect your photos in case if you lose your device or it fails or whatever. It won't protect your photos if you delete them (either accidentally or intentionally).

It is not a backup, and even "full" device backups WON'T include the photos, because of the (mostly correct) assumption that they are all in the iCloud Photo Stream. They will be backed up in "full" backups ONLY if you don't use iCloud Photos.

lostlogin3y ago

If rsync is used before the backup is uploaded/archived you can set the flags to do the things you want.

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