"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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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.

Then they are free to backup to their laptops. Even if they arent apple
laptops.

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?

He's asking how YOU do your backups.