[inetknght]

> to the cloud to locally

Requires payment for backup of any meaningful size.

> locally to your own storage

I don't own a mac. I own Linux. How do I backup iOS to my device? How do I restore it?

[noprocrasted]

> I own Linux

Does idevicebackup/idevicerestore not work anymore?

But agreed, there's no technical reason why the phone can't just accept normal USB-connected storage and store a file in there (in whatever proprietary/encrypted format it wants, but at least the _storage_ is standards-compliant).

[Reason077]

It seems to be actively maintained, so I would assume it still works:

https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice

[pabs3]

The backup part definitely works, I haven't tried the restore part.

[threeseed]

You can run macOS or Windows inside a VM on Linux.

[prmoustache]

Tecnically yes but slow as hell and you are using a software you are not licensed for in this case.

[akdev1l]

From Linux you literally cannot

[tonyedgecombe]

>I own Linux.

That's the trouble with these niche desktop platforms, people don't write software for them.

[Cumpiler69]

Is windows also niche?

[tonyedgecombe]

You can backup your phone to a Windows machine (using iTunes).

[prmoustache]

I think he meant iOS.