Backup Iphone Photos To Synology Nas

Once yous are washed with the setup, now information technology's time to back up the photos you have captured on your smartphone to your Synology DS120j (review). There are several ways to backup photos from your phone to the NAS. You can manually copy all the photos or by using the Synology Moments App. Let's bank check it out one by i.

Installing Synology Moments app
Backup photos manually
Backup photos using Synology Moments app
Photograph sharing using Synology Moments app
Copy all photos from Google Photos to NAS

Installing Synology Moments App

In the first pace, you need to install the app called Synology Moments. This is an official app from Synology to upload, share, and manage your photos. First, you demand to install the Moments app on your NAS.

Go to Package Center
Search for Moments app
Click on the Install button

It will take a few seconds to install the app. Once the installation is done, go to Carte (Click on the Menu icon on the elevation left corner) and click on the Moments app. It volition open the app in a new window. No additional setup or configuration is needed for the app.

Side by side, you need to install the Synology Moments app from Google Play in example y'all have an Android Phone or App Shop if you use an Apple tree iPhone. The app is uniform with Android 5.0 or after and iOS 11 or iPadOS 11 or afterward. Setting up the app will be explained afterwards in the post.

Manually Copy Photos from your phone to the NAS

This is one of the easiest methods of transferring photos or any files from one device to another. It'due south simply every bit easy as transferring photos from your laptop to a USB thumb drive. Here, instead of a thumb drive, you're transferring the photos to your NAS.

In the get-go step, connect your phone to the figurer through a USB cablevision. Y'all can also connect your telephone to the PC wirelessly using an FTP server just the data transfer speeds are considerably slower compared to the wired method. Let's go with the wired method.

Connect your phone to your calculator
- Open the location of the Photos (Usually DCIM folder)
- Re-create all the photos/videos on your computer or laptop

How to Copy Photos from Your Phone to Synology NAS

Login to your NAS
Open File Station app on the NAS
- Go to Home -> Drive -> Moments
- Tap on Create -> Create a new folder. Only photos copied within the Moments folder will testify in the Moments app. And so, make sure y'all're creating a new folder inside the Moments binder.
- Enter the Folder proper name (Ex: Backup_OnePlus_Nord)
- Click OK to create a new folder

Open the newly created folder by double-clicking on information technology.
Click on the Upload -> Upload and Skip.

Go to the location where you accept copied your phone photos
- Select all photos or select the files yous want to backup.
- Click on Open up.

Once y'all click on Open, the selected files start copying to the NAS. You can also check the live status of the file transfer past clicking the upload icon on the taskbar. At the aforementioned time, yous can also cheque the already copied photos by opening the Synology Photos app on your smartphone. It doesn't thing how many folders you create. All the photos inside the Moments folder are sorted based on Date, Month, or Year.

Fill-in photos using Synology Moments app

One time you're done with copying all photos you captured on your phone to the NAS, now it'due south time to automate the backup process. This ways, when you take new photos, those photos volition exist transferred automatically to the NAS. There is no need to copy the photos manually.

Open the Synology Photos app on your phone and tap on More.
Click on Photograph Backup Non Enabled.

Tap on Enable Photo Backup.
Permit Moments app to access the storage.
Click on Cull folder. Y'all tin select all folders or selected binder or DCIM folder based on your requirement. If you want to dorsum up all the Photos including WhatsApp and other downloaded photos then, tap on Dorsum up all folders.

Similarly, you demand to select the Fill-in rule. Dorsum up all photos or back up new photos. Back up all photos hateful, all the existing photos stored in your photos including the new photos you take in the time to come will be backed up to the NAS. If yous select Back up new photos and then, only new photos you lot have or download from the spider web from now onwards will exist transferred to the NAS. Select the selection every bit per your requirement.

Once you lot click a new photo on your phone or download a photo from the web, the Synology Photos app detects it and uploads it to the NAS automatically. Once uploaded, you lot can check the photos on your NAS by opening the Synology Photos app in the NAS or Moments folder in the File Station app.

Due to the cross-device synchronization, if you delete a photograph from the Synology Moments app on your phone, it volition also get deleted automatically from the NAS. Similarly, if y'all delete a photo from NAS, it will disappear from the Moments app on the phone.

Photo Sharing using Synology Moments

Just similar Google Photos, the Synology Moments also support Photo Sharing. You can share a single photo also as an Album with your friends and family. You can directly share the photo from the Synology app on NAS and also through the Moments app on your telephone.

Open the Synology Moments app on your phone
Open the photo you desire to share
Click on the share button
Tap on the Share link

Adjust the privacy settings as per your demand and click on the Share button.
Select the app you would similar to share similar Gmail, WhatsApp, etc.
Once y'all share, the recipient will receive the notification and can check the photograph past clicking the link you shared.

At whatsoever signal of fourth dimension, if you want terminate sharing

Get to Albums
Click on Shared
Tap on With Others

You'll get the list of photos you lot shared. Click on the three-dot-menu in forepart of the thumbnail and tap on Stop sharing.
Click Delete from the popup

Copy all photos from Google Photos to NAS

I accept created a defended postal service to re-create all your photos stored in Google Photos to your Synology NAS or Synology DS120j. Please find the post here.

That's a wrap. If y'all take questions, delight do let me know in the comments and I'll answer those every bit soon every bit possible. Exercise follow GizArena on Facebook and Twitter for the latest updates.

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