ICloud for backing up photos?

I want to backup my photos to iCloud from a Mac running iPhoto 08. Is there a way?

iCloud is not for backing up photos.  There is a feature called Photo Stream for syncing images between devices.  See:  http://www.apple.com/support/icloud/photo-stream/ for details and requirements.

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  • What is the best method for backing up photos in IPhoto?

    I have over 10,000 photos in IPhoto and am looking for the best method for doing a backup (or an archive?).  I'm now using ICloud and it appears it's just photo streaming and does not have storage capability. External hard drive, copying to a DVD, other suggestions?

    Most Simple Back Up
    Drag the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to another Disk. This will make a copy on that disk.
    Slightly more complex:
    Use an app that will do incremental back ups. This is a very good way to work. The first time you run the back up the app will make a complete copy of the Library. Thereafter it will update the back up with the changes you have made. That makes subsequent back ups much faster. Many of these apps also have scheduling capabilities: So set it up and it will do the back up automatically. Examples of such apps: Chronosync or DejaVu . But are many others. Search on MacUpdate
    My Routine
    My Library lives on my iMac. It’s Backed up to  two external hard disks every day. These disks are permanently attached to the iMac. These back ups run automatically. One is done by Time Machine, one is a bootable back up done by SuperDuper
    It’s also backed up to a portable hard disk when ever new photos are added. This hard disk lives in my car. For security, this disk is password protected.
    I have a second off-site back up at a relative’s house across town. That’s updated every 3 or 4 months.
    My Photos are backed up online. There are many options: Flickr, Picasa, SmugMug etc. However, check the terms of your account carefully. While most sites have free uploading, you will often find that these uploads are limited in terms of the file size or the bandwidth you can use per month. For access that allows you to upload full size pics with no restrictions you may need to pay.
    Every couple of months I test the back ups to make sure they are working correctly. It’s very easy to mis-configure a back up application, and the only way to protect against that is to do a trial restore.

  • HT201317 Using icloud to back up photos and shared photostream, why not updating?

    I've been manually backing up my camera roll on my windows 7 pc the old fashioned way (copying files through windows explorer) for some time, and have my pc as a whole backed up on a cloud product.
    I have this week however learned about icloud and the ability to back up the shared streams I'm subscribed to. I therefore installed icloud control panel and watched my family's streams appear in My Pictures.
    However, one shared stream did not transfer completely - there are 18 of my mum's pictures missing - and My Photo Stream has only transferred 70.
    Know there's a 30 day limit so given that is the first backup, it may not back up all 1000 as the earlier ones are older than 30 days, but the selection making up to 70 aren't the most recent as showing on my iPhone, so its no that. I took a whole lot together last weekend, one is on there but not the rest (for example).
    I can back up manually to get a complete set of my own photos but think I must be doing something wrong if it's missing some.
    I did go out after backing up first time, did I interrupt it , which is why there are only 70?  How do I restart it? - given that it didn't finish first backup.
    Also, I got home tonight, and the ones I've taken today have not transferred over.
    Is there something I'm supposed to do to trigger a backup? ( both to finish first back up, and to backup new ones too)
    Given that I'm using icloud more as a way of getting my photos and shared streams onto my pc, rather than backing up in icloud (as I have my own cloud too), what settings should I have on my iPhone, and what settings on iTunes?
    At the moment on iPhone In settings/icloud/storage & backup, I have icloud backup turned on.
    In iTunes, on the summary page for my iPhone (when plugged in) under Backups, I have 'iCloud' option ticked. Rather than 'this computer', when I change to 'this computer', the icloud setting on my iPhone gets turned to 'off'. I did hit the 'back up now' under 'manually back up and restore' in case that triggered it, and its showing a back up date and time of last night when I did this - but My Photo Stream is still at 70 - not complete transfer, or new ones - and mum's 18 still missing.
    Same page in iTunes, under 'Option' I have both 'sync over wifi' and 'manually manage music and videos' checked.
    I'm sure I'm overlooking something simple, any ideas?
    Thanks!

    Right, they're slowly reappearing. And My Photo Stream is updating this time too.
    So, is it signing in and out that did this? Is this what's supposed to happen?
    I should have said, I was looking for a way to back shared streams as we all have each others streams on our iOS devices and its filling up our storage, so we want to start deleting from the beginning, but not til we've backed up.
    However, if icloud works by constantly removing and rebacking up from what is on the device then, then this isn't the right solution for us, as it would remove the complete stream and back up a smaller stream after we've started deleting...
    Did i do something wrong here, was this supposed to happen?
    What should I have done?
    How do I stop this happening again?? I'm clearly not using icloud control properly!

  • Help! iPhone 5 works with iCloud for Contacts and Photo Stream, but Not Music!

    Okay, totally stumped! I have an iPhone 5, which, new, I restored from wife's iPhone 4 backup, remotely (3 Months ago). I just signed into our family Apple ID, chose the most recent backup, and did a restore. So, contacts, and photos and Apps backup to the cloud instantly, which is shared on all devices. Likewise, when my wife takes a phone picture, I can see it in the stream: all without doing an iTunes Sync. My phone's settings have my number associated with my contact card, so the phone doesn't "think" it is my wife's phone.
    The dilemna: iCloud won't send my phone new music purchases from our iMac, or iPad. My phone has it's own physical identity on Find My iPhone, but interestingly, it does not appear in the list of devices, in the "Manage my Devices" section when I am signed into iTunes with my Apple ID. Furthermore, even though I have the phone settings to Sync with iTunes wirelessly, when plugged into AC power, with iTunes on, the iPhone 5 does initiate backups with iTunes; even after rebooting iTunes. My phone does not appear in the list of devices for iTunes, AND the only way I can sync with my computer is with the USB/Lightning cable. Even then, I do not get music purchases to load onto my iPhone which i have bought on my computer.
    Currently running Mac OSX 10.7.5 on my iMac and IOS 6.1 on my iPhone5.
    Appreciate any help,
    THANKS      

    The way I do that is to organize them on my computer. I periodically import all of the Camera Roll to the computer. That is a good thing to do to insure you have a copy in case of loss of the phone or other problem, even if you backup the phone. Import can be done by methods described in iOS: Import personal photos and videos from iOS devices to your computer
    Once they are on the computer I organize them in iPhoto on my Mac. If you have a Windows computer you can organize them in folders. Once they are on the computer I delete them all from the Camera Roll on the phone to make it easier next time -- i.e., the Camera Roll always only contains the photos that I haven't yet organized.
    I only want some of the pictures that I am keeping to be sent back to the phone, so in Windows I made a second copy of those (in iPhoto on a Mac I use Albums instead). I had a main folder (e.g. "Photos for iPhone") and subfolders (only 1 level below the main folder) with various topics. Then use iTunes to sync the photos back to the phone (selecting the main folder). iTunes: Syncing photos
    The end result is that they are organized in Albums on the phone, are not in the Camera Roll, and I have a copy of them on my computer.

  • Can i use one icloud for back up of several devices?

    between 4 kids, wife and me, we got three ipads, 4 iphones for now and an iMac.
    previously, we used one icloud backup for my and wife's iphone.
    with family sharing, i cant find the way to have all devices seen in find my iphone AND back up to one icloud drive?
    am i missing something? Is it possible?
    if not, why the **** did apple do something as stupid as that? If I rent space, i have the right to use it as I iwish, dont I?

    No
    They all use different iCloud accounts and they will backup to their own iCloud accounts

  • Best way for backing up photos

    My IMac is extremely slow and I would like to reformat the hard drive and start afresh.  I need to know the best way to backup my photos and videoss.
    Would appreciate any assistance you could offer

    Get an external HD and use either Time Machine or create a bootable clone using either SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner. To really have an effective backup plan you really should have redundant backups meaning it would be wise to get 2 separate EHD's, one for TM and the other for the clone. The reason you want 2 separate physical drives is HD's fail and if you suffer a HD failure you will lose ALL of the backup. Having 2 separate drives reduces risk, having no backup well that can be just plain disastrous!

  • Can I delete anything to make room in icloud for back up?

    My iPhone says it cannot backup to iCloud because there's not enough storage...can I delete anything to make room or do I need to buy more storage?

    If indeed it is your email that is taking up a lot of space and removing it could enable you to make your back, then you can always move the email in the mail application on your desktop to a local folder. That would remove it from iCloud and not from your desktop computer.
    Some of this page may be useful to you.

  • My Iphone won't back up to Icloud anymore and My photos won't sync

    For some reason I can't get my phone to back up to icloud or my photos to show up on my Mac photo stream. My phone is connected to wifi and plugged in to the power. What should i do?

    If your back up continually fails, you might try turning off back up on your mobile device (settings > iCloud > storage & backup) and then deleting the backup file from iCloud by swiping the backup file on the mobile device (settings > iCloud > storage & backup > manage…) and then turning back up on again.
    Being able to back up to the cloud can be very useful, especially if you don't have access to a computer or have infrequent access to one, however unless you specifically need to use iCloud for back up, you will find backing up to iTunes significantly more convenient and possibly more reliable.

  • Icloud stopped backing up (froze really) photo library from macbook pro

    Recently bought a new macbook pro retina and enabled the icloud for storing my photo library (roughly 14,000 pictures)  Set things up about 5 days ago.  In icloud it shows album/event names but no pictures are loaded up.  On computer it says icloud backing up photos (notes 11,000 photos) - I tried pausing and restarting but is stuck at that 11k number for days now.  Perhaps I need to re-do but not sure how to do that... Help?!  Thank you

    Hi!
    Unfortunately, the upload resource on Photos is ***! 14K pictures, you'll suffer.
    I have only 1000 photos (oldest pics, I keep in another cloud service) and the upload was so slow and confusing.
    The my tip for you is deactivate the iCloud Photo Library in all your devices and restarting again by the one them! Or, you can reduce the number of photos you desire to upload to cloud.

  • I just purchased a macbook air, and because of the limited memory (256 gb) and my HUGE music library, I need aomne form of external storage.  i am considering either using iCloud for iTunes, or purchasing an external hard drive.  suggestions or opinions?

    hi!  just purchased a macbook air, and because of the limited storage (256 gb) and my massive music library, I am going to find an alternative storage method.  I am debating between an external hard drive and utilizing iCloud. icloud makes me a little nervous....having my entire library in "the cloud" and deleted off of my desktop - do most of you who use icloud for music and photos have a backup on external hard drive anyway? So....iCloud vs. external hard drive for storage.  Thoughts?  opinions?  thanks!

    iTunes Match allows you to put 25,000 songs in the Cloud. At present it isn't possible to add more storage but I wouldn be surprised if that isn't an option offered in the future. With iTunes Match you allow Apple to match your songs (purchased from Apple, ripped from your own CDs are purchased elsewhere). When Apple cannot match a song a copy of yours is uploaded.
    Once the match process is complete (for my 24,000+ collection it took a couple days) the fun begins. Since my MBA can't hanle all my music, I use iTunes Match to download a small selection of my music every couple of weeks. My music remains in the cloud even when I delete them from my computer and if I have WiFi accesss I can get new songs. It is a great service and much more convenient than keeping your MBA's music on an external drive.

  • Backing up photos, themes etc

    What is the best method for backing up photos to an external HD. Preferably in a manner that maintain all information on themes etc. Also after the initial backup is complete, what is the best way to update the backup with new photos & other changes in information etc?
    Many thanks

    Saundg
    Use a back up utility like Chronosync (http://www.econtechnologies.com) or DejaVu (http://propagandaprod.com/). Either of these apps will make a copy of the Library and afterwards update the copy incrementally - that is, with your changes rather than copying the entire library each time. There are other apps that will do this too: search on Macupdate - but whatever utility to use, make sure it can parse the Library Package file... not all back up utilities are equal to the task.
    Regards
    TD

  • My MacBook Pro got wet and I lost all of my childs photos from the day she was born. Is there anyway I could get these pictures back from my iCloud? I actually care more for getting the photos back than I do my laptop. Please help! Thank you!

    My MacBook Pro got wet and I lost all of my childs photos from the day she was born. Is there anyway I could get these pictures back from my iCloud? I actually care more for getting the photos back than I do my laptop. Please help! Thank

    Welcome to the Apple community khnkOliver.
    I assume these photos, or at least not all of them weren't in photo stream.
    You should be able to recover your photos from a back up.

  • HT4906 how do I back up my iPhoto pictures on iCloud?  I found an option for streaming my photos, but not for backing them up.

    How do I set up my iCloud to back up iPhoto?  I found an option to stream my photos, but not to back them up.

    Only for 30 days.  If you have your Mac and iPhone signed into the same iCloud account and have Photo Stream enabled on each device
    AND have iPhoto's Photo Stream preferences set as follows:
    the photos you take on your iPhone will automatically be imported into your iPhoto Library.

  • I received an Iphone 5 as a gift two days ago. The first thing I did was set up ICloud for photos. Itunes would not allow me to add songs to my new phone without restoring it, yet when I did this, it deleted all photos. And I cannot find them anywhere.

    I received an Iphone 5 as a gift two days ago. The first thing I did was set up ICloud for photos. Itunes would not allow me to add songs to my new phone without restoring it, yet when I did this, it deleted all 129 photos of my graduation and friends from the past two days. And I cannot find them anywhere, photo stream, ICloud, nothing. Where can I get back my memories?

    Were the photos taken by your new iPhone?  If so, did you not import them off your phone to your computer (as you would any other digital camera) before the restore?  If not, restoring wiped the data off the phone and your pictures are gone.
    Sounds like a good time to (re)read the User Guide.

  • My phone says I need more iCloud storage In order to do a back up, yet I only have my camera roll currently turned on for back up and it says it's taking up 4.5GB yet I only have 3pictures currently on it......anyone know why this is happening? Solution?

    I don't know if something's wrong or I just have it set up wrong?! I have turned off all other apps etc so the only thing currently being backed up is camera roll. I transferred all my pictures to my laptop and deleted them off my phone yet camera roll still says it's taking up 4.5 GB

    Hi Penguin-s,
    You may be having issues with deleting pictures from your iCloud Photo Stream. To make sure this is being done correctly, follow the steps in this article -
    iCloud: How to delete photos from My Photo Stream
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5125
    Specifically in the section Deleting photos from My Photo Stream with an iOS device -
    Open the Photos app.
    Tap the Albums tab.
    Tap My Photo Stream.
    Tap Select.
    Tap one or more photos. Checkmarks denote photos you have selected.
    Tap the Trash icon. Tap Delete [number] Photos.
    Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
    Best,
    Brett L

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