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- Windows 11 Pro + Win11 Canary VM.
I found my Iphone backups were larger than I expected. I traced through the various menus, and I discovered the iphone was backing up folders from Onedrive as well, significantly increasing iphone backup size and backup time.
I run through my onedrive files online and made sure I was not sharing any files. Despite this, the iphone still wanted to backup around 10GB of onedrive files which is pointless as it just wastes iCloud space.
I could not find any reason why iphone selected some files to backup from onedrive.
After a bit of faffing around, I discovered I could exclude onedrive from the iPhone backup and this has done the job, also making the backup much quicker. I now also optionally exclude local data on iphone that I have also previously backed up to onedrive on my pc.
After some analysis, I found that the iphone backup is actually quite small if you just keep to IOS, apps and settings.
Most of my user data is stored in onedrive as I have 1TB of cloudspace. Even so, for convenience, the free 5GB iCloud is a bit limiting, so I decided to lease 50 GB (only £1 per month) which is enough for my backups plus any temporary data not yet backed up to onedrive.
So in simple terms, if you use iPhone Backup, exclude Onedrive from the iCloud backup (unless data is so critical of course).
I run through my onedrive files online and made sure I was not sharing any files. Despite this, the iphone still wanted to backup around 10GB of onedrive files which is pointless as it just wastes iCloud space.
I could not find any reason why iphone selected some files to backup from onedrive.
After a bit of faffing around, I discovered I could exclude onedrive from the iPhone backup and this has done the job, also making the backup much quicker. I now also optionally exclude local data on iphone that I have also previously backed up to onedrive on my pc.
After some analysis, I found that the iphone backup is actually quite small if you just keep to IOS, apps and settings.
Most of my user data is stored in onedrive as I have 1TB of cloudspace. Even so, for convenience, the free 5GB iCloud is a bit limiting, so I decided to lease 50 GB (only £1 per month) which is enough for my backups plus any temporary data not yet backed up to onedrive.
So in simple terms, if you use iPhone Backup, exclude Onedrive from the iCloud backup (unless data is so critical of course).
My Computer
At a glance
Windows 11 Pro + Win11 Canary VM.I9 13th gen i9-13900H 2.60 GHZ16 GB solderedIntegrated Intel Iris XE
- OS
- Windows 11 Pro + Win11 Canary VM.
- Computer type
- Laptop
- Manufacturer/Model
- ASUS Zenbook 14
- CPU
- I9 13th gen i9-13900H 2.60 GHZ
- Motherboard
- Yep, Laptop has one.
- Memory
- 16 GB soldered
- Graphics Card(s)
- Integrated Intel Iris XE
- Sound Card
- Realtek built in
- Monitor(s) Displays
- laptop OLED screen
- Screen Resolution
- 2880x1800 touchscreen
- Hard Drives
- 1 TB NVME SSD (only weakness is only one slot)
- PSU
- Internal + 65W thunderbolt USB4 charger
- Case
- Yep, got one
- Cooling
- Stella Artois (UK pint cans - 568 ml) - extra cost.
- Keyboard
- Built in UK keybd
- Mouse
- Bluetooth , wireless dongled, wired
- Internet Speed
- 900 mbs (ethernet), wifi 6 typical 350-450 mb/s both up and down
- Browser
- Edge
- Antivirus
- Defender
- Other Info
- TPM 2.0, 2xUSB4 thunderbolt, 1xUsb3 (usb a), 1xUsb-c, hdmi out, 3.5 mm audio out/in combo, ASUS backlit trackpad (inc. switchable number pad)
Macrium Reflect Home V8
Office 365 Family (6 users each 1TB onedrive space)
Hyper-V (a vm runs almost as fast as my older laptop)
