Backing up an iphone to onedrive

Ok despite my better judgement, I needed to buy an iphone as my new hearing aids can only stream from android.

Backing up from iphone can be to iphone or icloud.
Although I have onedrive on iphone, it is not an option (pity as I have bags of capacity - 1 TB but only 15% used)

I cannot really see point of backing up to iphone, as that rather defeats the point of backup e.g. if you wipe phone, or it gets lost.
To backup via icloud would need a monthly subscription for a lot of data.

I wanted to backup my iphone to onedrive via my pc using ITUNES but all the websites said you could only manually backup to C drive.
This is ok but uses a lot of space (19 GB on my phone but could be much higher), and would make my image backups much larger.

After digging around, I found you could use a junction link to backup elsewhere to another partition/drive.

So I set one up as follows (change Myname to your username and target storage folder on another drive as you see fit.


I tried to set the target folder as a onedrive sub folder, but it kept getting read write/errors - no idea why other than maybe onedrive was struggling to sync to cloud as data was being written?

So after backup was made to my E drive, I manually copied the backup folder (E:\ItunesBackup) as a one drive sub folder, and it backed up to onedrive ok.

One thing I hate about iphones is they do not play well with Windows unlike android where the phone just appears as a drive and is easily manipulated using File Explorer (read or write).

I took me ages to work out how to copy folders from iphone onedrive app to the iphone.

Basically, you navigate using Iphones files app to required folder in the onedrive app, then long press on the selected folder and a sub menu pops up, with "copy" function (all the websites I scoured said to select three dots pull down menu, but no option to "copy").

Then you navigate to iphones file storage and long press again, then you can past the selected folder.

It is actually quite easy but a bit clunky i.e. I could not find an easy way of copying multiple folders (although a parent folder can have multiple subfolders).

Why does Iphone make it so difficult to manage folders compared with android!