Hi Gary, why not use her laptop to back up the iPhone directly to an external HD. You would probably need to have an iTunes library on the external drive, easy enough to create. Cheers, Susan
Sent from my iPad > On 14 Jul 2018, at 10:50 am, gary dorn <[email protected]> wrote: > > howdy > > my wife iPhone has issues with it, therefore before taking too the apple shop > for a looksee , we intend to do a backup. > she currently has it backup to iCloud, however we would also like to get our > own backup onto a backup disk. > > the back up is approx 40 gb > > the macbook she uses has only 22 gb free ( 250 gb SSD) > > can I backup on different computer ( macpro with 250 GB SSD - 170 GB free) > and transfer that to the backup disk for safe keeping.? > > can iTunes backups be assigned directly to a backup disk? > > any thought welcomed. > > ps can iCloud backup be completely assured of its security/reliability ? > > chow > Gary Dorn > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
