On Friday, 15 December 2017 13:41:59 UTC, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
whisky-dave wrote:
Quite possibly. But the two Apple using friends I asked about this
problem yesterday seemed to think the only way to backup data on an
iPad was to a 'cloud' somewhere. If that is the case,

But they are wrong, perhaps they don't own computers if that is the case
then they are correct, they can't back-up to anywhere other than a cloud.

Both have iPhones (never put them down) and Apple laptops.

Do they backup their phones, I doubt it, I don't usually bother haven't done so for 3 months now. Where do andriod or blackberry or M$ users back up their phones ?



I'm happy to use 'bug ridden bloatware'

How do you back it up ?

Aren't you a university tech? And need to ask how to backup data without
going online? No wonder the education system is in such a mess.

I know how to back up data, but I don't know how to connect an adndriod phone to a hard disc.

We don't back up peoples phones, and I don't know how to backup an andriod device as I haven't one. I;'m not supose to back up studetns devices to our servers either I dn;t have the passwords needed, htye donl;t even have a system for backing up Macs to their servers, so I just use Time Machine and email when I need to.

How do you back up an andriod phone ?

seems you need 3rd party software that doens;t run on the Mac.