How to Easily Backup iPhone to NAS in 2024

Saving iPhone backup to NAS is safe for your data

After years of use, your iPhone could carry a lot of information about you. You might have taken a lot of pictures and videos with it. Those files could eat much storage on your device.

So lots of people would like to set Set up a personal NAS storage. NAS is short for Network-attached storage, which is a personal data storage server connecting with multiple devices. You can backup your iPhone data, like photos, videos, music to your NAS drive, and you can view and use these data any time you need.

What’s more, it would be secure to save data to your own server. Indeed, NAS has become more and more popular. You could find how to use your NAS device to backup iPhone data or you could back up iPhone with iCloud.

How to easily back up iPhone to NAS drive

Next, we would like to guide you on how to backup your iPhone data to your NAS drive. Before we do that, you need to learn how to map a network drive to your PC, so that you can select it as a local path. Then you could use the professional iPhone backup software to save files on iPhone to NAS.

Section 1. Prepare to map a network location

Map the network drive to your PC, depending on the OS you're using.

For Windows 7:

Step 1. Click the Start button to open Windows Explorer and click "Map network drive" in the Tools menu.

Step 2. Choose the drive letter you like. The default drive letter would be “Z”. Click the "Browse" button to choose the path from your NAS. A username and password would be required.

Step 3. Check “Reconnect at logon” to save the location or you need to connect it next time. Click Finish and the Internet location would be mapped to your computer.

For Windows 8/10:

The general process of mapping a network drive to computer on Windows 8 or 10 is similar to that on Windows 7. The major difference is how to start it. On Windows 8, you should click the Start button to enter File Explorer and then right-click the "Network" from the left navigation bar. On Windows 10, you should enter File Explorer and then click Map network drive in the Tools menu.

After mapping the Internet position, you could set about backing up iPhone to NAS.

Section 2. Download FoneTool for free to backup iPhone to NAS drive over Wi-Fi

To back up iPhone to NAS, you need FoneTool, which is one of the best professional iPhone backup tools. With it, you could back up your iPhone to Nas or anywhere on your computer over Wifi. FoneTool could save all the photos, videos, music, messages, and contacts to a NAS drive, as well as a USB drive, external disk, and local drive.

It has several advantages to satisfy various demands for backup.

Highlights:

◆ You could preview and select the files on your iPhone and extract the needed ones to NAS. It is also allowed when you restore iPhone.

◆ Its fast backup speed allows you to efficiently finish the process in a very short time.
◆ You can flexibly change the path to save everything to NAS.
◆ You can decide if use Nas to fully or selectively back up data on iPhone.
◆ Its wide compatibility supports most iPhone models from iPhone 4 to iPhone 15 and would be perfectly compatible with the latest iOS 17.

Step 1. Connect iPhone to computer with USB cable and tap “Trust” on it.

Step 2. Choose Phone Backup >  Selective Backup > Get Started to run this feature.

★Notes:

 Your data will be stored as a backup. You can also go to Phone Transfer > Choose iPhone to PC and change the storage location to your NAS drive to save the original data on the target location directly.

 To fully back up your iPhone, you can click "Full Backup" on the main interface.

Step 3. Click an icon to preview and select files. And click "OK" to return.

Step 4. Click Backup Storage Path and choose the Nas as the storage path. Tap Start Backup to complete.

☛ To restore iPhone from that backup, you just connect your iPhone, select the task in My Backups, and select Restore. You could also export files from iPhone backup to iPad or iPod Touch.
☛ You might hear of iTunes. It is not suggested to use iTunes to back up iPhone to NAS for restoration with iTunes is very likely to fail. If you insist, try backing up iPhone to an external drive with iTunes.
☛ This method can be used to back up iPhone to Synology/WD/qnap NAS drive.

Conclusion

This is how to back up iPhone to Synology/WD/qnap NAS drive. SNAS makes storing a number of files possible. If you want to back up iPhone to NAS, you should map the Internet location to computer, and then use the Phone Backup feature within FoneTool to back up iPhone photos, videos, messages, and contacts to your NAS.

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